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Empire of the Ants/Jaws of Satan Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
Mr. BIG, Bert I. Gordon’s Food of the Gods (1976) follow-up was another loose H.G. Welles adaptation for AIP. Empire of the Ants concerns...

Gabe Powers
Oct 17, 2019


Lake Placid Blu-ray Review (originally published 2014)
1999 was a watershed year for American films, anchored by incendiary, challenging, and weird movies, like The Wachowski’s The Matrix...

Gabe Powers
Oct 16, 2019


Killer Nun Arrow Blu-ray Review
Perverted, possessed, and/or evil nun stories have likely been around as long as Catholic women have donned the habit and pledged themselves

Gabe Powers
Oct 16, 2019


The Food of the Gods/Frogs Blu-ray Double-Feature Blu-ray Review (originally published 2015)
Loosely based on a story by H.G. Welles about goo from the ground that causes the animals that eat it to grow to alarming sizes...

Gabe Powers
Oct 15, 2019


Pacific Rim: Uprising Blu-ray Review (originally published 2018)
Jake Pentecost (John Boyega) is a promising Jaeger pilot whose legendary father gave his life to secure humanity's victory against the...

Gabe Powers
Oct 15, 2019


Episode 7: Kaiju Movies, feat. Luana Saitta of Monster Island Commentaries
DON’T WALK, RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! GIANT MONSTERS ARE ALL-OUT ATTACKING!

Gabe Powers
Oct 11, 2019


Death Walks on High Heels/Death Walks at Midnight Blu-ray Review (originally published 2016)
Like most genre-centric filmmakers, giallo directors can be broken down into tiers. At the top, you have the innovators – your Mario Bavas

Gabe Powers
Oct 11, 2019


The Devil’s Honey Blu-ray Review (originally published 2017)
It seems like just about every time I write about a post-1981 Lucio Fulci movie, I have the tendency to designate it the director’s “last...

Gabe Powers
Oct 10, 2019


Baby Blood Blu-ray Review
Well before the advent of New Extremism – a distinction coined by Artforum critic James Quandt and characterized by blunt and graphic sexual

Gabe Powers
Oct 8, 2019


Hercules in the Haunted World Blu-ray Review
Before giallo, before Eurocrime, before Italian horror, before even spaghetti westerns, there were peplum. Sometimes referred to as “sword..

Gabe Powers
Oct 8, 2019
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