Out Now on DVD Entertainment One. Certificate: 15. Electric storms ripping the vast black skies, motels and trailer parks soused in blue from sordid neon, oil drums ablaze in the sheeting rain. This is the nocturnal wilderness of Killer Joe,…
Out Now on DVD. Arrow. Certificate: 15. Excessive weight gain, a rise in domestic violence, and alcoholism justified by a Santa hat. As geographical brother Neville John Holder would say, “It’s CHRIIIISSSSTTMAAASS!” And just as this festive time would not…
Out Now on Blu-ray and DVD. Olive Films. Certificate: N The title of this might more appropriately be Richard Bachman’s Thinner, since that’s the pseudonym Stephen King released the original story under. Watching this 1996 release again I was…
Out Now on DVD. Warner Archive. Certificate: N The third of writer-producer Harry Alan Towers’ Fu Manchu movies finds Chris Lee’s Fu and his devilish daughter Tsai Chin returning to their Mongolian homeland to plan a suitable vengeance against their…
Out Now. Kino Lorber. Certificate: N/A Cult favourite Mario Bava never managed to equal the impact of his first feature, the excellent Black Sunday, but most of his movies are enlivened by moments of inspired visual stylishness.
After four mammoth epics you’d have thought Peter Jackson would have had his fill of film shoots that seemingly never end, but here he is with the first in the trilogy of The Hobbit in spangly 48fps HD 3D. With…
DVD. Out Now. Sony Pictures Choice Collection. Certificate: N Hoping to repeat the amazing success of House Of Wax (1953), Columbia signed up Vincent Price for another 3-D shocker, with villainous Vince playing The Great Gallico, a master illusionist who…
Blu-ray. Out Now. Scream Factory. www.movietyme. com. Certificate: N John Carpenter took his popular stalk and slash series off in a new direction with this one, but since it’s no relation to its predecessors one wonders why he didn’t just…
Blu-ray. Out Now. MGM. www.movietyme.com. Certificate: N The seriously disturbed Chioto brothers provided the crazy special effects for this madcap spoof of alien invasion movies, and along with John Vernon’s droll performance as a paranoid cop they’re by far the…
Blu-ray. Out Now. Anchor Bay. www.movietyme.com. Certificate: N This distasteful shocker would undoubtedly have made the Nasties list had anyone been silly enough to try to release it uncut on video here. Repulsive hillbilly brothers Billy Rae McQuade and Holden…
DVD. Out Now. Nucleus Films. Certificate: 18. The gang at Nucleus love their Video Nasties, as do we all, and here they have given the four star treatment to one of them, Rene Cardona’s 1969 remake of his earlier Doctor…
DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Koch Media. Certificate: 15. Having recently seen a preview of Dark Side contributor Calum Waddell’s excellent documentary on the slasher film, Slice & Dice, it got me thinking of how supple the genre can be despite essentially…