Posts Tagged ‘Arrow Video’
Deadly Manor Blu-ray Review: A Complete and Total Dud
I’m not one prone to hyperbole but Deadly Manor might be the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen.
Read MoreEdge of the Axe Blu-ray Review: Careful with That Axe, Psycho Killer
Arrow Video presents this late entry into the slasher genre that spends too much time developing character when it should be chopping up bodies with an axe.
Read MoreJake Speed Blu-ray Review: When Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser Aren’t Available, Call Jake Speed
Action, adventure, romance! What more could a teenage boy want?
Read MoreHitch Hike to Hell Blu-ray Review: Put Your Thumb Down and Run
You’ll wish you were in Hell instead of watching this movie.
Read MoreThe Dead Center Blu-ray Review: Mostly Effective Psychological Horror
Primer’s Shane Carruth stars in psychological and supernatural horror tale, where a suicide returns from the dead… but not alone.
Read MoreFlowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-ray Review: I Think They Wilted
The best-selling novel gets a neutered adaptation but an excellent release by Arrow Video.
Read MoreRingu Collection Blu-ray Review: Ghostly Revenge, Again and Again
Four weird, gripping and often terrifying films of spectral revenge that began the J-horror boom are now on Blu-ray.
Read MoreApprentice to Murder Blu-ray Review: Graduated to Boring
This 1980s folk horror is light on scares and heavy on nothing happening.
Read MoreRingu Blu-ray Review: One Ring That Started Them All
Arrow Video brings a new 4K restoration of this Japanese horror film that started a movement.
Read MoreThe Prey Blu-ray Review: Pray You’ll Never Have to Watch
Arrow Video does an excellent job presenting this should-have-been forgotten slasher in a very nice package.
Read MoreThe Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 Blu-ray Review: Flashback City
Arrow Video does a nice job spiffing up this movie that is so bad even the director disowned it.
Read MoreHellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Blu-ray Review: Same Gore, Less Story
Follow up to Hellraiser has the same aesthetic, same cast, much the same crew, but not enough story or ideas.
Read MoreHellraiser (1987) Blu-ray Review: Clive Barker’s Semi-professional Debut
An erotic and grotesque twist on a haunted house story, with an unsettling horrific vision that supersedes some film-making fumbles.
Read MoreIn the Aftermath Blu-ray Review: An Odd Mishmash of Live Action and Animation
An art-house Japanese animated film gets a terrible American treatment.
Read MoreWho Saw Her Die? Blu-ray Review: Bond Does Giallo
George Lazenby should have been a star.
Read MoreAlice, Sweet Alice Blu-ray Review: Has Surprisingly Aged Very Well
Alfred Sole’s underrated shocker gets a new, superb upgrade courtesy of Arrow.
Read MoreKlute Is the Pick of the Week
A gritty ’70s masterwork leads a week of interesting releases.
Read MoreDouble Face Blu-ray Review: Could Have Used a Face Lift
A subdued Klaus Kinski stars in this krimi/giallo mashup that is never thrilling but often quite dull.
Read MoreShe-Devils on Wheels Blu-ray Review: I Just Don’t Get It
She-Devils on Wheels has nothing going for it.
Read MoreYakuza Law Blu-ray Review: Gory Fun Yakuza Anthology
Three fun but gory short stories of the Yakuza taking the law into their own hands, filled with bloody torture.
Read MoreThe Iguana with the Tongue of Fire Blu-ray Review: Confusing and Dull
This giallo/poliziotteschi has too much confusing plot and not enough style to be interesting to anyone but fans of the genres.
Read MoreTerra Formars Blu-ray Review: Miike Can Do Better
Takashi Miike’s sci-fi adventure on Mars should have stayed on Earth a little longer.
Read MoreStrip Nude for Your Killer Blu-ray Review: Keep Your Clothes On
Salacious 1970s giallo is quite dull despite being packed full of sex and violence.
Read MoreScared Stiff Blu-ray Review: Bored Silly
Low-budget 1980s horror flick waits until the end to get interesting, but by then it is too late.
Read MoreKeoma Blu-ray Review: The Spaghetti Western’s Last Breath
Franco Nero stars in this later-period spaghetti western that’s got a lot of style, and little else.
Read MoreKolobos Blu-ray Review: Terrible Name, Even Worse Movie
A ’90s slasher has plenty of violence and little else.
Read MoreAudition Blu-ray Review: Family Drama Turns Violent
Takashi Miike’s disturbing melodrama gets a nice restoration from Arrow Video.
Read MoreHorror Express Blu-ray Review: Hammer Horror-esque
Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee battle an alien ape on a train. What more could you want?
Read MoreThe Possessed / The Fifth Cord Blu-rays Review: Giallo Before and After Argento
Two films from Luigi Bazzoni illustrate both what a great director he was and what seismic shifts Dario Argento created on Italian cinema.
Read MoreThe Forbidden Photos of a Lady Beyond Suspicion Blu-ray Review: Proto-Giallo
More psycho-sexual thriller than giallo, this film nevertheless delivers the goods.
Read MoreDe Niro & De Palma: The Early Years Blu-ray Review: For Fans Only
Arrow Video brings together a collection of three early collaborations between two titans of the cinema with mixed results.
Read MoreBloody Birthday Blu-ray Review: Bloody Awful
Kids behaving badly in a really bad movie.
Read MoreDe Niro & De Palma: The Early Years Is the Pick of the Week
Here’s a few new releases to add to your Christmas stocking.
Read MoreOrgies of Edo Blu-ray Review: Torture, Surrealism, and Topless Women
Teruo Ishii’s strange anthology of period stories of sex and torture is more bizarre than erotic, though entertaining.
Read MoreThe Wizard of Gore Blu-ray Review: Splatter Magic
Herschell Gordon Lewis’s splatter classic is terrible in the best possible way.
Read MoreGas Food Lodging Blu-ray Review: A Moving Study of Women on Their Own Terms
A wonderfully somber portrait of women at a crossroads.
Read MoreTorso (1973) Blu-ray Review: Sleazy Suspenseful Giallo Goodness
Director Sergio Martino crafts a precursor to modern slasher movies that combines sexploitation with stabbings. And gougings.
Read MoreDistant Voices, Still Lives Blu-ray Review: Accurately Captures the Battle of the Sexes
A minimalist, but masterful portrait of harrowing family dynamics.
Read MoreSchlock Blu-ray Review: Could Have Also Been Called Shoddy, Shabby, or Sucky
A movie so bad we reviewed it three times.
Read MoreThe Baby (1973) Blu-ray Review: Could Have Been a Cult Classic
Ted Post’s oddball ’70s horror film has all the trappings of a camp classic but the execution left me bored out of my skull.
Read MoreThe Pyjama Girl Case Blu-ray Review: Fact Is More Interesting Than Fiction
Put your PJs on, this giallo will put you to sleep.
Read MoreHorrors of Malformed Men Blu-ray Review: Complete Malformed Japanese Madness
Teruo Ishii’s strangest film of murder, doppelgangers, and the titular malformed men finally makes it to Blu-ray.
Read MoreTideland Blu-ray Review: Childhood, Love, and Necrophilia
Terry Gilliam’s controversial tale of an innocent in a grotesque world is four parts beautiful, six parts repulsive.
Read MoreWhat Have They Done to Your Daughters? Blu-ray Review: I Hope They’re Not with Solange
The second part of Massimo Dallamano’s “schoolgirl’s in peril” trilogy gets an excellent release from Arrow Video.
Read MoreStreet Mobster Blu-ray Review: Gritty, Nasty Yakuza Drama
Kinji Fukasaku’s brings docu-drama realism and brutal ugliness to the Yakuza genre in this gritty film.
Read MoreArrow Video Presents Director Vincent Ward’s First Two Features, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey and Vigil
‘Vigil’ shows much of the talent and promise that would be delivered in ‘The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey.’
Read MoreThe Case of the Scorpion’s Tail Blu-ray Review: Stereotypical Giallo
Sergio Martino’s horror film ticks off all the giallo boxes but never rises above them.
Read MoreDoom Asylum Blu-ray Review: Terribly Charming
Arrow Video has done their usual magnificent job releasing this ridiculously bad, yet somehow entertaining horror film.
Read MoreDetective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! Blu-ray Review: Undercover Yakuza Hijinks
Released in 1963, director Seijun Suzuki was on the brink of his artistic breakthrough with this comic gangland picture.
Read MoreThe Last House on the Left Blu-ray Review: A Video Nasty Gets Its Day
Wes Craven’s first film gets an excellent new set from Arrow Video.
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