Elvira’s big break was hosting a movie show where she made fun of the movies she showed. In the ‘80s, she got to be the star of her own movie, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She’s a fun character with...
The Crow is the one movie I thought should never have become a franchise. To me, when someone dies as a direct result of the negligence on set, just let it be a one off in their memory. But they...
The Mad Bomber is another new-to-me piece of L.A. cinema history thanks to Severin Films’ release. It’s fun seeing L.A. in the ’70s, especially Century City which is missing a lot of the current buildings. It’s an interesting plot too....
Michael Jackson was supposed to do the theme song for Addams Family Values. At the last minute, his first scandal broke and they canceled the song. The film features a hastily rendered Tag Team remix “Whoomp! The Addams Family There...
The first four Hellraisers make a good set because they were all theatrical. The straight to video ones, even those starring Doug Bradley as Pinhead, probably don’t warrant 4K upgrades. Even as direct to video larks, they don’t really have...
Alien: Romulus opened up new worlds of the Alien universe and now you can explore them in 4K UHD. It begins on the mining planet which is so full of activity, it’s not purely dark and desolate. Once the characters...
To my surprise, Sideways got 4K UHD upgrade for its 20th anniversary. It just showed up last week, and it is a delight to revisit. Of course the highlight is wine country in 4K. It is beautiful, vivid and yet...
We were supposed to get Horizon: Chapter 2 in August. While we wait for a release date, Chapter 1 is available at home in 4K UHD. I liked Kevin Coster’s latest western. It balances many characters and different issues of...
The extent of my knowledge of is limited to the Universal monsters and Tod Browning’s Freaks, the latter of which Criterion expanded my knowledge beyond too. So now it’s time to explore Val Lewton. I Walked with a Zombie must...
Freddy Krueger became a big industry. New Line even called itself “The House that Freddy Built.” Yet the original A Nightmare on Elm Street was an independent film. It didn’t take the flights of fancy that Dream Warriors or Dream...