Second Sight has given two Amicus portmanteau films new Blu-Ray releases. Asylum and The House That Dripped Blood are considered to be some of the better anthology films in the Amicus catalogue. For those who don't know, Amicus was a rival of Hammer. Its films were often were mistaken as Hammer productions, but unlike Hammer’s movies … Continue reading Asylum / The House That Dripped Blood – Blu-Ray Review
It's probably safe to say that if you are reading a website called Psychotronic Cinema, you've already seen Don't Look Now—and seen it numerous times. Given that, this review will be relatively short. It's still a total masterpiece, and probably the best British horror movie ever made, it famously shared a double bill with The Wicker … Continue reading Don’t Look Now – Blu-Ray Review
Vanishing Point is one of the most enigmatic films of the early '70s. Along with the similar Electra Glide in Blue, it is one of the defining films of the era, and shows the dark hangover of the '60s. It's been highly influential on films ranging from Tarantino's Death Proof to Drive to Baby Driver, and even … Continue reading Vanishing Point – Blu-Ray Review
Hedwig and the Angry Inch is based on the punk rock musical from John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask (Trask wrote the songs), which was a cult smash Off-Broadway in 1998. It stemmed out of Cameron Mitchell frequenting SqueezeBox, a punk drag bar in New York City in the '90s and eventually coming up with … Continue reading Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Blu-Ray Review
Alita: Battle Angel is based on a manga that James Cameron fell in love with sometime during the early '90s. His career got completely consumed by truly awful but insanely successful films like Titanic and Avatar (he is already finishing off Avatar 2 and 3, with plans to do 4 and 5 , but I … Continue reading Alita: Battle Angel – Blu-Ray Review
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