Blu-ray & DVD: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is a hard hitting story set at the end of the 19th century, about a young indigenous man pushed to his breaking point and beyond. Jimmie Blacksmith (Tommy Lewis) is an Aboriginal half-caste and […]
Blu-ray: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Director Roger Corman is probably best known for producing (414 at the moment!) and directing low budget horror and sci-fi movies, and when his work is discussed it is usually about his Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price, or his ‘monster’ movies such as It Conquered the World […]
DVD: Singularity (2017) Elias van Dorne (John Cusack) is the CEO of the world’s biggest robotics company and the creator of ‘Kronos’; a super-computer designed to end all wars. Kronos however, decides that humans are the biggest threat to world peace and launches an attack to rid the planet of this warmongering ‘infestation’. Years later, […]
Blu-ray and DVD: Marty (1955) Hard working and good natured butcher Marty Piletti (the wonderful Ernest Borgnine) is 34 and unmarried. This seems to cause great concern to his family, and especially his quintessentially Italian immigrant mother (Esther Minciotti). Marty’s life trundles on; he meets his also single friends after work, and at weekends they […]
Blu-ray: Rawhead Rex (1986) Famously written by the great Clive Barker, Rawhead Rex is a humdinger of a marmite (love it or hate it) film. Set in 1980’s rural Ireland, it tells the tale of a monster (Rawhead Rex) who is unsuspectedly unleashed on the people and countryside. There’s no real explanation of what it is, […]
Blu-ray: Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) What is it with clowns? Does anyone actually find them funny and not absolutely terrifying? The makers of Poltergeist and IT haven’t really helped to champion the cause for family friendly clowns and neither does Killer Klowns from Outer Space! Although these clowns are a darn sight more […]
DVD: Society (1989) I first watched Society many years ago at ‘Black Sunday’; an all night horror movie festival that was held in Manchester. I still remember the audience reaction at the infamous ‘shunting’ scene…the place went wild! Indeed, all of the make-up effects by Screaming Mad George got a rousing reaction from a caffeine […]
Adapted by Paul Kane (Sherlock and the Servants of Hell, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy) from Clive Barker’s seminal and much loved Origins novella ‘The Hellbound Heart’. This one story opened up a universe of Hell for initiates, The Hell Priest (Pinhead), the Cenobites, Marchand’s Box, and has so far been the inspiration for […]
DVD: A Violent Man (2017) After watching fists flying recently in Jailbreak, Kickboxer: Retaliation, Re:Born and Female Fight Club, more fictionalised pugilist punishment appeared here at 60MW Towers when A Violent Man appeared in our mailroom. Thankfully I am of course referring to the title of a movie, and not the man who stars in it, Thomas […]
DVD: Money Movers (1978) ‘Darcey’s Security Services’ moves a lot of money every day, and anyone with thoughts of robbing them would probably need someone ‘on the inside’. Though even having that doesn’t mean that everything will run smoothly. When a warning arrives that their counting house, which can hold up to $20M, is the […]