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The Andromeda Strain 4K UHD Review
Watching and writing about pandemic movies certainly feels different in the years following an massive real-world outbreak. The horror loses the safety of make-believe and the missteps of fictional authorities trigger unrealistic anxiety of pandemics to come. Or, worse, the fictional authorities are more competent than their real-world counterparts. For the sake of everyone’s sanity, let’s put that aside while we look back at the greatest pandemic/outbreak film of its era and

Gabe Powers
May 6


The Adventurers (1995) Blu-ray Review
Of the New Wave era Hong Kong filmmakers that leveraged their international success into Hollywood careers – Jackie Chan, Tsui Hark, John Woo, Yuen Woo-ping, and Ronny Yu – Ringo Lam often seems to be the odd man out. He is fondly remembered for his work with Chow Yun-fat in Hong Kong, City on Fire (1987), Prison on Fire (1987), and Full Contact (1992) in particular, but his wider output remains overlooked and his American films never reached the wide mainstream audiences of

Gabe Powers
Apr 30


Sweet House of Horrors Blu-ray Review
House of Clocks and Sweet House of Horrors were developed as two parts of a six-movie series under producer Luciano Martino (brother of director Sergio, ex-husband of starlet Edwige Fenech). Martino had, in 1986, found modest success with a different made-for-TV horror anthology, entitled Brivido Giallo, and the plan was to build a second series, entitled Houses of Doom (Italian: Le case maledette), around the theme of haunted houses. Lamberto Bava, who directed all four part

Gabe Powers
Apr 28


The House of Clocks Blu-ray Review
Over the first three decades of his long career, Lucio Fulci deftly navigated the waves of Italian cinematic fads. Unfortunately, when he finally found himself at the forefront of one of those fads – the gore-soaked horror trend that grew out of Zombie (Italian: Zombi 2; aka: Zombie Flesh Eaters, 1979) – the entire industry began to crash. The already low budgets cratered and the distribution market for exploitation films began favoring home video over theatrical releases (no

Gabe Powers
Apr 25


Tokugawa Sex Ban Blu-ray Review
While not a household name outside of specific corners of exploitation fandom, writer/director Norifumi Suzuki was a vital contributor to...

Gabe Powers
Apr 23


Short Night of Glass Dolls 4K UHD Review
About two years ago, perennial podcast co-host Patrick Ripoll and I recorded a two-part piece on the giallo movies of 1971...

Gabe Powers
Apr 18


Blue Sunshine 4K UHD Review
Despite the enormous impact of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968), zombie fiction took years to fully embrace the mechanics

Gabe Powers
Apr 16


Two Venom Mob Films: The Daredevils & Ode to Gallantry
No other director had a bigger impact on Hong Kong action cinema than Chang Cheh, who directed and/or wrote around 100 movies across six...

Gabe Powers
Apr 10


Felidae 4K UHD Review
Outside the sentiment that states all animation is for adults if it’s good enough, the term ‘adult animation’ applies to everything from...

Gabe Powers
Apr 8


Hokuriku Proxy War Blu-ray Review
Hokuriku Proxy War (Japanese: Hokuriku dairi sensô, 1977) was the last film in the ‘true-account’ line. He made one more street-level...

Gabe Powers
Apr 2
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