Film and TV

DVD and VOD: Snake Outta Compton (2018) A giant mutant snakes is on the rampage in Compton, and it is up to an amateur rap group looking for a record deal try to save the day by killing it. If you like Troma movies, then you’ll like Snake Outta Compton, as this could easily be […]

Blu-ray: Berserk (1967) Monica Rivers (Joan Crawford) is the owner and ringmaster of a travelling circus, and is always looking for ways to get bigger audiences to the shows. When a series of ‘accidents’ happen in which some of the performers are killed, the takings rise as people are drawn to the circus wondering (hoping!) […]

Blu-ray: William Castle at Columbia – Vol 2 Zotz! (1962) A professor of ancient languages; Jonathan Jones (Tom Poston) comes into possession of an old coin with a strange inscription upon it. He translates the inscription and now finds himself gifted (or cursed!?) with 3 powers: if you point to someone, the person feels a sharp […]

Blu-ray: Crimson Peak (2015) Guillermo del Toro is a wonder: male yet able to spin a feminist fairytale as good as any Angela Carter  novel. Set in what may be the early 1900’s, a ruined mansion surrounded by blood red clay is the visual centrepiece of Crimson Peak along with real ghosts (amazingly CGI lite, […]

DVD and Digital HD: Speed Kills (2018) With a cast that includes John Travolta, Katheryn Winnick, James Remar, Jennifer Esposito, Matthew Modine and Tom Sizemore, there’s a lot of Hollywood ‘big hitters’ on display here. However, being a direct to DVD/Digital HD title, you know that things may not be as polished as in a […]

DVD: Lunatics – A Love Story (1991) Trapped in his apartment due to paranoid delusions of spiders crawling on his brain, sadistic doctors experimenting on him, and a group of rappers who appear whenever he puts music on, Hank (Ted Raimi) accidentally makes contact with Nancy (Deborah Foreman) when he mistakenly calls a public phone […]

DVD and Digital HD: Backtrace (2018) When a $20M bank heist doesn’t go to plan and ends in a violent shootout, it leaves Macdonald (Matthew Modine) with amnesia after a head injury. His loss of memory is the crux of the narrative of Backtrace, as he is the only surviving person who knows where the […]

Blu-ray: When a Stranger Calls (1979)  “Have you checked the children?” Those chilling 5 words resonate throughout When a Stranger Calls, and indeed also through When A Stranger Calls Back and the short film The Sitter (both of which are included on this fantastic limited edition release from Second Sight Films). Jill Johnson (Carol Cane) […]

Blu-ray: Day of the Dead (Ultimate Edition) (1985) Day of the Dead: the final part of George Romero’s original ‘Dead Trilogy’, that while not becoming the immediate hit that the previous ‘dead’ movie ‘Dawn of the Dead’ was, has aged like a fine wine and is now appreciated a lot more than it was upon […]

Blu-ray: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) Imagine a time – say 1988, where girls were girls and boys were boys, and there was no such thing as calling your friend a non-binary ‘they’. Imagine a time when it was okay to make risqué jokes about boobs, or even…oral sex. Imagine a time, post Benny […]