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Movie Review – The Irish Mob (2023)

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The Irish Mob, 2023. Directed by Patrick McKnight. Starring Rob McCarthy, Pauline O’Driscoll, Baz Black, Lynseyann Mulvey, Liam Griffin, and Eoin Duffy. SYNOPSIS: Irish gangland boss Val becomes the high priority target of the Dublin Garda after an armed robbery gets national coverage. Valentino ‘Val’ Fagan (Rob McCarthy) is the most feared man in Dublin, […]

Movie Review – Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (2021)

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Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, 2021. Directed by Kevin Kopacka. Starring Anna Platen, Jeff Wilbusch, Frederik von Lüttichau, Luisa Taraz, and Robert Nickisch. SYNOPSIS: A couple go to visit an old mansion they have inherited, and then things get weird. A hit on the festival circuit last year, director Kevin Kopacka’s Dawn Breaks Behind the […]

Blu-ray Review – Cursed Films

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Cursed Films, 2020. Directed by Jay Cheel. Featuring Phil Nobile Jr., Ryan Turek, Mace Neufeld, Wade Davis, Kane Hodder, Linda Blair, Michael Berryman, Eileen Dietz, Richard Donner, and Lloyd Kaufman. SYNOPSIS: Documentary series focusing on five of the most famously troubled horror movie productions. You could argue that every movie has its production troubles, from […]

Movie Review – The Twin (2022)

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The Twin, 2022. Directed by Taneli Mustonen. Starring Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten, Tristan Ruggeri, and Raul Talmar. SYNOPSIS: A family mourning the loss of one of their twin sons after an accident return to the father’s family home, but all is not well. If you thought that the ‘horror as a metaphor for […]

Blu-ray Review – Scary Movie (1991)

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Scary Movie, 1991. Directed by Daniel Erickson. Starring John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Butch Patrick, Ev Lunning, and Zane Rockenbaugh. SYNOPSIS: A nervous young man believes that an escaped killer is stalking him at a Halloween carnival. This Scary Movie is not the horror movie spoof from the 2000s but a low budget regional horror movie […]

Blu-ray Review – The Dunwich Horror (1970)

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The Dunwich Horror, 1970. Directed by Daniel Haller. Starring Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, Talia Shire, and Donna Baccala. SYNOPSIS: A man seduces an innocent young woman in order to use her to bring back ancient entities in an occult ritual. As we enter the year of 2023 and the world seems […]

Blu-ray Review – Deathstalker / Deathstalker II

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Deathstalker/Deathstalker II, 1983/1987. Directed by James Sbardellati/Jim Wynorski. Starring Rick Hill, Richard Brooker, Barbi Benton, Lana Clarkson, John Terlesky, Toni Naples, John La Zar, Monique Gabrielle, Bernard Erhard, and Dee Booher. SYNOPSIS: Double pack of two low budget 1980s fantasy movies from legendary filmmaker Roger Corman. It’s time to strap on your loincloth, sharpen your […]

Blu-ray Review – Enter the Void (2009)

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Enter the Void, 2009. Directed by Gaspar Noé Starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, and Emily Alyn Lind. SYNOPSIS: A drug dealer is shot by police and his spirit floats around Tokyo, connecting with the past, present and future of himself and his sister. There are movies that can give […]

Movie Review – Mad God (2021)

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Mad God, 2021. Directed by Phil Tippett. Featuring the voice talents of Alex Cox, Niketa Roman, Satish Ratakonda, Anthony Ruivivar. SYNOPSIS: The Assassin is sent down into a twisted world of tortured souls and nightmares, all from the mind of special effects wizard Phil Tippett. Imagine, if you will, a stop-motion mash-up between David Cronenberg, […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Highlander (1986)

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Highlander, 1986. Directed by Russell Mulcahy. Starring Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Clancy Brown, Roxanne Hart, Sheila Gish, Hugh Quarshie, and James Cosmo. SYNOPSIS: An immortal warrior is pursued through time by a brutal barbarian looking to be the ‘only one’. Continuing to trawl the vaults of their catalogue of cult movies from the 1980s to […]