Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | 4K Bluray Review

This movie, if you can call it that, was my one most anticipated release for 2024. It is the movie sequel I held my breath for, and waited months until a physical release to see. By now most of you have seen it already. You've likely heard the critics saying Keaton has revived Beetlejuice, and that the film was alright. Well, f**k all that. I'm about to sh*t in your cornflakes, and piss on your grits with the truth the whole truth and nothing, but the truth. I owe anyone returning that much honesty. I'm not here to kiss Hollywood's greatest's asses. I don't do that. So, sit back, relax, and prepare yourself as I unleash all sorts of Hell on this bastardized vision of a highly anticipated sequel.

Twilight Zone The Complete 80's Collection

Recently I went on a little shopping spree buying up multi-disc DVD collections of old horror shows for a trip down memory lane. Among them I've picked up both collections of "The Twilight Zone". You may or may not be aware of it, but there was an 80's series of the "The Twilight Zone". It featured a lot of the A-List actors and actresses from the time, and featured fairly solid short stories akin to what viewers of the original series had become accustom to. The 80's series also harbored colored episodes instead of the usual B&W ones. 

PG: Psycho Goreman | A DVD Review

I know I'm late to the show, and that my take on this campy horror film will likely fall on blind eyes. That being said, it's likely to be a take that most have not stopped to consider. Having thrown lump sums of my own money at purchasing RLJE DVDs, and Blurays over the past couple of years, and having watched all of them I've noticed a trend. A trend that the publisher's onboard directors seem to all follow. It is a political trend, and often times comes off as propaganda in the guise of films. Touching base on topics such as race, inequality, gender, the patriarchy, feminism, and all those textbook ideological ideals. It turns out 'Psycho Goreman" is no different in those regards. Everything from the characters to the script, and the plot points are all encapsulated political pisstakes. Each of which are oddly unaware in context that they are occasionally undermining the very ideas they are selling. 

The Mortuary Collection (Shudder) | Blu-ray Review

I grew up watching shows like 'The Twilight Zone', 'Night Gallery', and 'Tales From The Crypt'. Enjoying them every weekend through standard television, satellite, and cable. Each of them offering up an anthology of horror all their own. Small stories about morals, and the macabre. Sometimes taking inspiration from horror classics, and the short story compilations of famous or budding authors. Even further still giving way to freshly made tales of tantalizing terror for unsuspecting youth to feed their nightmares with. 

For a lot of us it was the origin of our fear of the dark, or the boogeymen in our closets. To others it was eye candy of the most curious sort. Things we could tell friends about during recess hours at school. Making us the envy of the children of puritanical parents who restricted such things from their children's regular television consumption.

RELIC (IFC) | A DVD Review

Just got through watching IFC's "RELIC". I honestly did not expect it to be as good as it was. Though a horror film it might be it is also possibly one of the best cinematic metaphors for life and death that I've ever seen. Particularly life and death through the eyes of three generations. 

The Cleansing Hour (SHUDDER) | A DVD Review

The Cleansing hour is an overflowing fondue cheese fountain sprinkled with a dash of tele-evangelical holy water that is anything, but pure ...

THE WRETCHED | Horror Review

First teased in 2019, and released finally in 2020 "The Wretched" found it's audience among horror indie fans. Me being one of them. The film itself follows a teenage boy with a criminal history who witnesses the otherworldly happenings of the families within his local town. When the film opens up we are first teased with what amounts to the end of the film. One of those starting at the end, and finishing with a full fledged trip throughout what led up to that horrific scenario types of deals. In that teaser we find a babysitter showing up for work in a house that is abnormally quiet. The child is supposedly asleep, and the babysitter chats on the phone to a friend about her job. Interrupted by a noise in the home she lets her friend go to investigate. This leads to her going into the basement. Upon descending the stairs she sees a woman in a rocking chair cradling, and eating a child. This child is of course the kid the babysitter was sent to watch. The woman in the chair feasts upon the lifeless body of the child as blood drips to the floor. Panicked the babysitter runs back upstairs only to be stopped short in her tracks by the man of the house. He slams the basement door in her face, and locks it leaving only blood curdling screams to be heard. The camera pans out outside the basement revealing strange markings etched into the basement door. The film then cuts to several months earlier ...

TERRIFIED | Horror Review

I'm a fan of horror. Been one most of my life. I've watched about every sub-genre of horror that there is. From the supernatural to the slasher flicks, and everything between I've seen it all. In the past 10 years or so, in the midst of my routine horror viewings, I've noticed that the horror genre has not only been revived, and rescued from Hollywood has beens, but has also been saved many times over by indie directors and studios from all over the globe. One such studio which recently started putting out films in physical and digital formats regularly is RLJE Films. In conjunction with streaming services like Shudder RLJE has released quite the interesting library of modern takes on the usual frightful formulas. One of the most recent releases that is "Terrified" is one such take on time honored tradition. It blends the paranormal with the otherworldly, and adds a few twists along the way in it's fractured timeline of events.