Silent Night, Deadly Night is not necessarily one of the “must sees” for the casual horror fan looking for a campy thrill. It’s savage, violent and punishing. The story opens with young Billy Chapman whose dreams of a white Christmas are obliterated when he witnesses a deranged criminal, dressed in […]
Patrick J. Doody
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I’ll be totally honest with you dear reader, I’d never seen the 1971 horror film Willard until I received my review copy of this Blu-ray. Sure, I knew it was about rats. Yes, I guessed the rats committed some violent acts. That was it. After watching, I admit it’s not […]
Scream Factory has been a blessing to horror movie fans. The past few years, they’ve been passionate about creating a library of beautiful high definition releases of our favorite films, ranging from John Carpenter’s The Fog to the freshly dropped Buckaroo Banzai. They make their best efforts to fill the […]
My big brother was lucky enough to see Return Of The Living Dead in theaters. I was 12 years old at the time and obsessed with renting R-Rated zombie flicks, but hadn’t made the crossover of sneaking into films for the over 17 crowd. I do remember hanging on his […]
Rollercoaster is on my “must watch around the 4th of July” list. The reason is that the main action of the story takes place on 4th of July when a madman devises a plan to extort money from five major amusement park corporations by threatening them with homemade bombs he […]
Shout! Factory continues mining the MGM library and finds more Cannon Pictures gold with the new Blu-ray release of Invasion U.S.A. starring Chuck Norris. As a kid of the 80s, I wasn’t old enough to see this in theaters, but the image of Chuck with dual Uzis strapped to his […]
Nightmares, a horror movie made up of four stories, is a film you barely remember watching on cable in the 80s. Lance Henricksen as a priest being chased down in the desert by a demonic car? Veronica Cartwright terrorized by a giant rat? Emilio Estevez fights a video game voiced […]
Imagine a story of a young boy, Harry Potter, who discovers a world of witches and wizards! Yes, that is actually some of the plot in director John Carl Buechler’s Troll, a film that categorically feels more fairy tale than horror. Yet along with the fantasy, it mixes scares, slapstick, […]
The Blu-ray release of Scarecrows fills me with memories of discovering bizarre, low budget horror movies on late night cable. Sadly, I missed this one the first time around, but as usual Scream! Factory has a release stuffed with all the goodness I needed to enjoy the film for the […]
There is a moment in Frogs when Ray Milland announces, “I still believe man is master of the world” to which Sam Elliot responds, “Does that mean he can’t live in harmony with the rest of it?” That exchange sums up the message in the new Scream! Factory double Blu-ray, […]