Review: William Castle at Columbia – Vol 2
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 […]
Review: Crimson Peak
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, […]
Review: Speed Kills
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 […]
Review: Lunatics – A Love Story
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 […]
Review: Backtrace
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 […]
Review: When a Stranger Calls
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) […]
Review: Day of the Dead (Ultimate Edition)
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 […]
Review: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
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 […]
Live Event: For The Love of Sci-Fi, BEC Manchester, Dec 1st – 2nd, 2018
Never having been to ‘For The Love of Sci-Fi’ before, things took a turn for the worse for me a week before the event due to personal circumstances and ill health. Despite already having booked my ‘Rocky 4’ photoshoot with Carl Weathers and Brigette Nielsen, it was touch and go if I could attend or […]
Review: Ouija House
DVD: Ouija House (2018) When using a ouija board there are certain words that you probably wouldn’t want it to spell out. Examples being D.E.A.T.H. or K.I.L.L. Unfortunately, the board used in Ouija House should really have spelt D.U.L.L. at the very beginning of the movie and spared everyone watching 95 minutes of a ‘by […]