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.
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…
DVD/BLU-RAY/BLU-RAY 3-D Out Now. 20th Century Fox. Certificate: 15. ”Honest Abe” is no stranger to historical revisionism. Epitomised by youthful tenacity and a swollen prosthetic nose in John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States grew…
DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Lionsgate. Certificate: 15. There is something a little Fight Club about The Cabin In The Woods. Those who’ve seen it can’t talk about it, for fear of giving away its über-smart meta-concept. it should make a critic’s…
DVD. Out Now. Code Red Releasing. Certificate: N Tormented artist Dennis Lipscombe takes a suicidal swan dive off the top of a sleazy Los Angeles tenement building on Halloween night, but he “survives” a near-death experience and is possessed by…
Blu-ray Out Now. www.movietyme.com Certificate: N A welcome BD release for Stuart Gordon’s horror classic, about some very grisly fun and games down at the Miskatonic Morgue, Massachusetts. That’s where precocious boffin student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is testing out…
DVD/BLU-RAY Out Now. Anchor Bay. Certificate: 18 A yorkshireman wants to have his favourite pet immortalised after it dies, so goes to the jewellers: “Can thee mek us a gold statue of yon dog?” “Aye. Do you want it 18…