Here are our latest reviews of films on DVD.
Reviews of Classic Films
Blood Feast
Kristen Lopez @ Awards Circuit
Die Hard
Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
Hangmen Also Die
- Excerpt: Even after all this time, Hangmen Also Die is a potent film, and it’s up there with some of Fritz Lang’s best
Haxan
Kristen Lopez @ Journeys in Classic Film
La Dolce Vita
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: Fellini’s film has a large reputation, but you’ll find that when watching La dolce vita, the reputation is inadequate. The movie itself is larger still.
Le Jour Se Lève (Daybreak)
MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Serious film fans will appreciate the 4K restoration of this 1939 French melodrama, which has been all but unseen for 75 years.
Sundays and Cybele
Jamie S. Rich @ Criterion Confessions
- Excerpt: The movie’s central difficulties aren’t easy to dismiss, but then, neither are all the other possibilities the script raises. Nor can one ignore the honesty of the emotions on display, which is what makes Sundays and Cybèle so genuinely intriguing.
The Fog
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Few film titles have ever reaped such totemic power or attention-getting frisson as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Recent Home Video Releases
Absentia
Jeremy Kibler @ Diabolique Magazine
- Excerpt: Technically uneven but effective in its guttural response, “Absentia” is ultimately very worthwhile, making up for its budgetary constraints with disturbing, maturely handled themes and well-drawn characterization.
Lake Placid
Jeremy Kibler @ Diabolique Magazine
- Excerpt: How can you dislike a movie where our heroes lure the big croc with a cow hanging from a helicopter?
Nightbreed’ Director’s Cut Blu-Ray Review
Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: This is the release ‘Nightbreed’ fans have been waiting for.
Squirm
Jeremy Kibler @ Diabolique Magazine
- Excerpt: Squirm might not be shocking anymore, but it is certainly worth a watch for its practical craftsmanship, which will induce more cringing than any of today’s CG effects.
Stunt Squad
David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: It’s not that there isn’t a market for this kind of movie. It’s that there are plenty of them better than Stunt Squad.
The Vincent Price Collection II
- Excerpt: The Vincent Price Collection II trumps the sophomore slump through the inclusion of several top-notch films, an overall excellent audio-visual presentation, and a bevy of bonus materials from Shout! Factory.
Other Reviews from 2012 and earlier
1941
Aaron Pinkston @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: The most entertaining and frustrating aspect of 1941 is that it leaves its smarts in pre-production, trading them in for a big, loud, zany mess.
Anaconda
Kristen Lopez @ Cinema Sentries
Body Count
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Decoding Annie Parker
Nuno Reis @ Antestreia [Portuguese]
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Gregory J. Smalley @ 366 Weird Movies
- Excerpt: Four decades out from its theatrical debut, the sense of outrage over the betrayal of William Friedkin’s horror classic has subsided, and more viewers are now willing to let ‘The Heretic”s hypnotic camp spell wash over them.
Exorcist II: The Heretic
- Excerpt: What’s most striking about the film now, decades after its release, is how staggeringly dull it is; Boorman is a fine director, but it’s at though no one bothered to tell him he was making a horror movie. Instead, it’s 118 minutes of endless flashy-light hypnotism, staggeringly terrible locust effects, and Richard Burton wandering around what appears to be Tatooine.
Hack-O-Lantern
James Jay Edwards @ FilmFracture
- Excerpt: Cinema Fearité Presents ‘Hack-O-Lantern’ – A Halloween Occult Grave Robbing Slasher With A Beat
Let Us Live
Dennis Schwartz @ Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Prince of the Night
Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee, Coffee and more Coffee
Tenebrae
Daniel Lackey @ The Nightmare Gallery
Two Lives
Tiago Ramos @ Split Screen [Portuguese]
