Re-Animator remains one of the finest “Horror-Comedies” to ever grace the screen. The film was based on a series of short stories by H. P. Lovecraft who was a writer of “weird fiction” which often merged horror and science fiction. Despite the stories being written during the 20s and 30s, the film is set in … Continue reading Re-Animator – Blu-Ray Review
David Lynch undeniably is the modern-day face of surrealism on the big screen, only maybe Luis Buñuel (who of course was an original surrealist) is more synonymous with surrealism. Lynch however claims Buñuel had little influence on his work because he didn’t see his work till much later. This set shows contains two stark extremes of his filmography, … Continue reading Dune & Blue Velvet – Blu-Ray Review
Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains one of the most prolific directors of all-time; he made over 40 feature films and even a 15 hour mini-series adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz until his untimely death of a cocaine and barbiturates overdose in 1982 at the young age of 37. Along with Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders he was one … Continue reading Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Wave 1 – Blu-Ray Review
The Beatnik phenomenon is often considered exclusively American but in reality Britain had its own form of it. The UK beatniks were writers like Alexander Trocchi, Colin Wilson and to a lesser extent Harold Pinter sometimes they are referred to as “The Angry Young Men”. Most of the American Beatnik writers such as William S. Burroughs, Gregory … Continue reading Beat Girl – Blu-Ray Review
William Friedkin remains one of the best directors of the New Hollywood boom of the ’70s his run of The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer is unparalleled by his contemporaries.Sorcerer was a total critical and commercial failure (since been reappraised as arguably his best work) mostly due to the release of Star Wars around the … Continue reading The Brink’s Job – DVD Review
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