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Extreme Cinema – Maniac (1980)

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Maniac, 1980. Directed by William Lustig. Starring Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro, Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, and Tom Savini. SYNOPSIS: An unhinged man on the streets of New York City kills and scalps young women. Maniac is a peculiar breed of horror film – it doesn’t set out to scare, but instead attempts to unsettle. It […]

Movie Review – Survive the Night (2020)

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Survive the Night, 2020. Directed by Matt Eskandari. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Bruce Willis, Shea Buckner, Tyler Jon Olson, Lydia Hull, Riley Wolfe Rach, and Jessica Abrams. SYNOPSIS: An estranged father-son duo must put aside their differences in order to protect their families from a home invasion. I suppose Lionsgate, the film’s distributor, is partly […]

Movie Review – Only the Animals (2019)

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Only the Animals, 2019. Directed by Dominik Moll. Starring Denis Menochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Guy Roger N’Drin, Marie Victoire Amie and Bastien Bouillon. SYNOPSIS: A woman goes missing during a snowstorm, and the lives of five people connected to her disappearance are explored in turn. The characters in Dominik […]

Blu-ray Review – White Fire (1984)

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White Fire, 1984. Directed by Jean-Marie Pallardy. Starring Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, and Gordon Mitchell. SYNOPSIS: Brother and sister diamond miners go on the hunt for a legendary diamond, alongside several other criminal gangs. “It’s a bad film that’s good” says actor Fred ‘The Hammer’ Williamson in the special features of […]

Blu-ray Review – Screamers (1995)

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Screamers, 1995. Directed by Christian Duguay. Starring Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Andrew Lauer, and Liliana Komorowska. SYNOPSIS: On a war-ravaged mining planet Alliance scientists have created self-replicating killing machines known as ‘screamers’ to eliminate their NEB enemies. In the far off future of 2078, on the mining planet of Sirius 6B, there is […]

Movie Review – Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (2020)

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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, 2020. Directed by Matt Peters and Christina Sotta. Featuring the voice talents of Roger Cross, Rosario Dawson, Christopher Gorham, Camilla Luddington, Shemar Moore, Jerry O’Connell, Jason O’Mara, Matt Ryan, Sachie Alessio, Stuart Allan, Ray Chase, John DiMaggio, Taissa Famiga, Liam McIntyre, Tony Todd, Rebecca Romijn, Rainn Wilson, and Hynden Walch. […]

Movie Review – John Henry (2020)

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John Henry, 2020. Directed by Will Forbes. Starring Terry Crews, Ken Foree, Ludacris, Joseph Julian Soria, and Jamil Valezquez. SYNOPSIS: A man hiding from his dark past sees it return to haunt him, leading to violent repercussions and a bloody conclusion. Terry Crews is an actor who can’t not be charismatic even if he tried. […]

Movie Review – Enter the Fat Dragon (2020)

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Enter the Fat Dragon, 2020. Directed by Kenji Tanigaki. Starring Donnie Yen, Niki Chow, Teresa Mo, Jing Wong, and Louis Cheung. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced cop with relationship issues is assigned the task of transporting a criminal to Japan, leading to disastrous consequences. To be quite honest I was looking forward to seeing what veteran action […]

Extreme Cinema – Schramm

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Schramm, 1993. Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Monika M., Micha Brendel, Carolina Harnisch, and Michael Brynntrup. SYNOPSIS: A look inside the mind of a serial killer from the controversial director of Nekromantik. So Schramm is a film that examines the psyche of a serial killer and was made by Jörg Buttgereit, […]