The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Director: Robert Fuest Writers: James Whiton, William Goldstein Genres: Comedy | Horror Country: UK Language: English | Hebrew Release Date: 18 May 1971 (USA) Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involvin

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1970s, 1971, Comedy, Horror, Reviews, United Kingdom,

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Tijuana Blue (1972)

Director: Howard Ziehm (as Harry Hopper) Genres: Adult | Comedy Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 12 January 1972 (USA) A drug runner gets sent to Tijuana to meet with a person named Oddball. He's told not to get involved with prostitutes, to just do the job and nothing else. He brings one friend with him, and they end up having sex with every female they meet. The presence of very familiar femme porn stars posing as sleazy Mexican whores destroys the meager credibility quotient of TIJUANA BLUE. This would-be slumming expedition in Mexico turns out to be a slumming

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Adult, Comedy, Reviews, USA,

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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Director: Roy William Neill Genres: Crime | Film-Noir | Mystery | Romance | Thriller Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 September 1943 (USA)  During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master detective proceeds to solve the crime from a long list of suspects including the owners of the home, the staff and the patients recovering there. This is one of a good number of solid, interesting mysteries in the series of Sherlock Holmes movies starring Basil Rathbone & N

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Crime, Film-Noir, Films, Mystery, Reviews,

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The Pussycat Ranch (1978)

Director: John Christopher Genres: Adult | Comedy | Western Country: USA Language: English Also Known As: Pussycat Ranch The rough life of the western cowboy was dirty in more ways than one. And how better to ease the pains and problems of a round up than at the whoopin'est, hootin'est, whorein'est cathouse in the west - Pussycat Ranch! That's right, an entire layout of voluptuous vixens eager to please their men in every imaginable way. And when the star pussycat of them all, Sweet Polly, gets ahold of Billy The Kid, well, you'll just have to watch it to find out! From haystack

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Adult, Comedy, Films, Reviews, Western,

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Tales of Terror (1962)

Director: Roger Corman Genres: Comedy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 17 January 1964 (West Germany) Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences. Tales of Terror is a classi

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Films, Horror, Mystery, Reviews,

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Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Blu-Ray)

I went to see this with high expectations,I thought the last film was ok. It lacked imagination and new ideas but I understand why they went safe. I found this one to be a bit odd,at times almost a parody or spoof with the odd dramatic moment. I hoped they'd have an interesting story arc lined up for rey,fin etc but these characters just don't feel like real people so its hard to sympathise with them like you could with the original characters. Luke was sad,like an old dog that needed putting out his misery. Nice one. Klylo is pretty wet,like a big baby and not scary at all. It looked prett

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Blu-Ray, DVD, Reviews, Sci-Fi,

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Enigma Rosso (Blu-Ray)

When the brutally violated body of a young woman is found wrapped in plastic, Inspector Gianni Di Salvo (Fabio Testi, Contraband, The Four of the Apocalypse) is drawn to dark deeds at an exclusive girls' school where the beautiful members of a group called The Inseparables are being targeted with sinister letters and murder attempts. Following a clue in the dead girl's diary, he soon learns that anyone could be harboring deadly secrets as he untangles this web of sex and homicide. A prime slice of sordid shocks from the golden age of the Italian giallo, this is the final film in the cycle o

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Blu-Ray, Reviews, Thriller,

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The House That Dripped Blood (Blu-Ray)

The fans of Amicus movies all have their personal favorites. Some prefer the pulpiness of TALES FROM THE CRYPT or VAULT OF HORROR while others enjoy the cheesiness of TORTURE GARDEN or DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS. Then there's the literate approach of HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE. I love them all and saw every Amicus film that came my way, even the non-anthology ones like AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS and I, MONSTER. Most of them I caught in drive-ins. My personal preference is for the low key approach of HOUSE and GRAVE with HOUSE being my favorite Amicus movie althou

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Blu-Ray, Horror, Reviews,

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Eating Raoul (1982)

There’s a certain subset of cinephile culture that has deemed Eating Raoul a classic — heck, it even earned a spot in the Criterion Collection. And I don’t disagree with them. But despite the love from movie diehards, the horror comedy has remained a woefully underappreciated genre gem. To be sure, Eating Raoul skews further in the direction of comedy than horror (a fine counterpart to the twisted terrors of Parents, which you’ll find below), and the movie is light on gore, but it’s a pitch-perfect entry in the horror comedy lineage that hinges on the tropes of terror to land the punchline.

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Comedy, Crime, Films, Reviews,

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Blood and Lace (1971)

Seven years prior to Halloween, Blood and Lace featured the first home invasion killer POV during a murder. The hammer murder of a prostitute at the beginning sends her teenage daughter (Melody Patterson) to an oppressive orphanage run by the sadistic Gloria Grahame (all of the great 40s divas eventually made their way to cheap horrors at the twilight of their career), who lives off the state contract given for each orphan and works the children extra hard or punishes them even harder. Every man in Blood and Lace is oozing filth as they all try to get their hands on the new teen, who talks

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Horror, Reviews,

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Daughters of Darkness (1971)

With nudity and sexual proclivity loosened across the first world’s various censor boards, the vampire film finally got to embrace the eroticism of the genre in the 1970s. For the past few decades there have been many sex films involving the vampire; Belgium’s Daughters of Darkness is the most artful and moody of the spicy lot. There’s a flower-eating “mother”, a mysterious man on a bicycle, and an ornate Transylvanian hotel where a Countess (Delphine Seyrig, known to cinephiles as the indomitable Jeanne Dielman) and her assistant (Andrea Rau) lament that their world hardly has any remaini

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Horror, Reviews,

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Wake in Fright (1971)

Wake in Fright is my personal nightmare: being surrounded by a horde of degenerate men who drink, gamble, fight, dismiss women, and shoot animals for sport, with no ability to leave them behind. It’s under-seen because it includes footage from an actual kangaroo hunt, and though this movie assisted with making kangaroo hunting illegal in Australia, it should be warned that it’s real and it’s disturbing. But if you can stomach knowing that’s coming, Wake in Fright is a massively recommendable film if you’ve ever thought that The Hangover could be pretty interested as a horror concept instea

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Drama, Reviews, Thriller,

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I Drink Your Blood (1970)

I Drink Your Blood is peak grindhouse; pure exploitation designed to titillate, frighten, and amuse with little regard for production value, character development, and the other technical elements that tend to make up a “good movie”. That said, it’s purely, blissfully amusing from start to finish and a bit more cleverly plotted than you might expect. Nobody actually drinks blood in I Drink Your Blood — though it made for one of the best-titled double billings, released alongside the inferior but still entertaining tribal zombie pic, I Eat Your Skin. But don’t let that disappoint you becaus

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Horror, Reviews,

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Appleseed Alpha (2014)

Left to survive in a post-World War society, two mercenary soldiers - Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos – are sent on a mission on the outskirts of their war-torn city. During the operation, they run into Iris and Olson, two citizens from the utopian city of Olympus, who might have a way to save the world but the ruthless Talos and the scheming warlord Two Horns have their own plans.The oddly named Appleseed Alpha is essentially a series of action sequences punctuated by bland dialogue and weak attempts at character development. First, the story and dialogue are particularly weak and uno

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anime, DVD, Reviews,

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Vengeance of the Crying Woman (1974)

In 1658, a beautiful woman named Eugenia discovers that her lover, by whom she had three children, is going to marry someone else in The Vengeance of the Crying Woman. Brokenhearted and scorned, she decides to make a deal with the devil to get revenge. In doing so, Eugenia poisons herself and her children, vowing to return as La Llorona and take every firstborn child of her lover’s descendants. The time has come and La Llorona has returned to the present to exact her revenge. Santo, with the help of his friend Mantequilla Napoles, figures out that the only way to end La Llorona’s curse is to

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1974, Adventure, DVD, Horror, Mexico, Reviews,

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