The Stylist is a new horror movie released by Arrow Video about a hairstylist who goes on a rampage of cutting people’s scalps off. It’s a case of a movie that was clearly based on a short, becoming the director Jill Gevargizian’s first full feature. It has the issues that many shorts-turned-features have, that not … Continue reading The Stylist – Blu-Ray Review
Lake Mungo is an Australian horror mockumentary that for some reason has gained a serious cult following. The fact that it’s held in high esteem by some is something I find really baffling. It’s about a family whose members start having strange supernatural experiences after their 16-year-old daughter, Alice Palmer, drowns when swimming at the … Continue reading Lake Mungo – Blu-Ray Review
Amusement Park is a long-lost George A. Romero film, one that hasn’t been seen in 40+ years. Made in 1973, it was financed by the Pittsburgh Lutheran Society and it is actually a PSA film. That was the same year Romero made The Crazies. Romero was always a regional filmmaker, and he had a background … Continue reading Amusement Park – Film Review
This is one of the very best films to come out during the pandemic—in fact, because of the pandemic the film probably has had a bit more attention than it normally would have, as in a crowded year it could have been lost in the shuffle. It’s a small movie with two known actors, but … Continue reading Sound of Metal – Blu-Ray Review
Mandy is the second film by Panos Cosmatos, director of Beyond the Black Rainbow — a film that still hasn’t been released in the UK. It’s set in a similar alternative psychedelic reality, with Kubrickian and Cronenbergian elements, and in the same year of 1983. Where it departs from its predecessor is that it has … Continue reading Mandy – Blu-Ray Review
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