Jean Rollin on Blu-ray: TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES Review
Up to this point, Redemption's Blu-ray releases of the work of Jean Rollin has focused on his classical period, that is, the films from his debut in 1968 with The Rape of the Vampire through the early '80s with films... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Mario Bava on Blu-ray: HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON Review
Back in 2010, we were extremely excited to review the very first Mario Bava film to hit Blu-ray with Arrow Video's release of Bay of Blood. At the time cult video geeks were hoping that this release would open the... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And He's Looking For Sex
Here Comes the Devil is only the second film I'm seen by writer-director Adrián García Bogliano, following a recent viewing of his "geriatric lunatics with nitroglycerine" horror movie Cold Sweat only a few weeks ago. Seeing both films in such... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: MAD MONSTER PARTY & The Challenges Of Raising A Monster Kid
For as long as there have been scary stories, there have been kids who couldn't get enough of them. In the modern era this has translated to a wealth of horror themed entertainment geared toward children. It wasn't always this... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

DVD Review: GYO: TOKYO FISH ATTACK! (Terror Cotta)
I very recently reviewed Gyo at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas and my opinion of the film hasn't changed, so here is that review with comments regarding the disc at the end.While I cannot honestly say that I am... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

FrightFest 2012 Review: HIDDEN IN THE WOODS Is Bloody Disgusting
The first (but certainly not the last) film to rub audiences the wrong way at this year's FrightFest was Hidden In The Woods, the latest effort from Chilean director Patricio Valladares. A relentlessly rough, misogynistic and amoral story of brutality... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE RAID (Australia-NZ Edition)
Chances are, if you are reading this on Twitch you very much know exactly what you are in for with The Raid. I'm not going to give you my standard italicized paragraph covering basic plot points, instead I'm going to... More »
  

TV Review: Season 3 Of FACE OFF Starts Tonight On SyFy!
There once was a time, if you wanted to know how your favorite movie creatures were made, you had to wait for a behind the scenes special to air on network television prior to the films release. As a... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A PORNO GANG (Synapse Films)
In all the hubbub surrounding the release of A Serbian Film, Mladen Djordjevic's similarly explicit The Life and Death of a Porno Gang was unfairly overshadowed and passed along. Porno Gang is every bit as subversive and explicit as A... More »
  

Blu-ray Review: LES VAMPIRES Still Knocks 'Em Dead
No company in the world, with the possible exception of Eureka!'s Masters of Cinema, has taken as active a role is preserving the silent film era as Kino Lorber. This week sees the release of their latest magnificent addition to... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

DVD Review: PANTY AND STOCKING WITH GARTERBELT
(I cannot top this release's own tagline: "Drop Those Britches, Bitches!") When animation studio Gainax (home of the "Evangelion" franchise) announced "Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt" we sort of threw a wobbler here at Twitch. The ever more worrying 'lolicon'... More »
By Ard Vijn   
  

Blu-ray Review: THE BUNNY GAME (Autonomy Pictures)
In the last 2 years, I've reviewed somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 films and home video releases for Twitch. The majority of these reviews are relatively easy to write. However, I also take some interest in writing the more... More »
  

Review: DARK HORSE Gallops to Difficult Finish Line
Once again, toy collecting is the extension of social hopelessness in Todd Solondz latest film, DARK HORSE. But unlike, say, Steve Carell in THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, it's not an element intended to cause us to laugh at our... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Review: TOTAL RECALL Recalls Totally
It took being foisted into a chair and fed particular stimuli to remember it, but my previous life came screaming back to me, crystal clear. I was a late-blooming sixteen year old, eyeball deep in a dating relationship that... More »
By Jim Tudor   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: MEGA MONSTER BATTLE: ULTRA GALAXY: THE MOVIE
(Review by Justin Decloux)MEGA MONSTER BATTLE: ULTRA GALAXY is the cinematic equivalent of watching a hundred episodes of ULTRAMAN on fast-forward while snorting ten pounds of pixie sticks. It's a kaleidoscope of furious fights, exploding creatures and enough gleeful cheese... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: EUROCRIME! THE ITALIAN COP AND GANGSTER FILMS THAT RULED THE 70's

(Review by Justin Decloux) It's surprising (compared to the current state of its industry) that thirty years ago Italy nearly dominated the cinematic genre landscape - flooding theatres with a never ending supply of shamelessly homegrown, flavor of the month... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Blu-ray Review: TWINS OF EVIL (Synapse Films)
It was almost two full years ago that cult home video geeks learned that Synapse Films had acquired the US distribution rights to a trio of Hammer Films classics. The first, Vampire Circus, released back in December of 2010, while... More »
By J Hurtado   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: DEAD SUSHI
Noboru Iguchi's latest opus about revenge-seeking-man-eating sushi may not fall under the already infamous Sushi Typhoon label, but it bears many characteristics of the J-splatter studio's usual shtick: high-concept comedy that lampoons Japanese culture, manic scream acting from an ensemble... More »
By Peter K.   
  

Fantasia 2012 Review: WRONG
Quentin Dupieux's genre deconstruction effort, Rubber, from a couple years ago, left some folks scratching their head, and others critical of its 'extended comedy sketch' nature; likley then, Wrong is probably not the right film for them.  With a bigger thematic... More »
  

Review: DENSEN UTA (Masato Harada)
Densen Uta (Suicide Song) is one of those films that is bound to attract the wrong audience. The film is often categorized as a regular J-Horror, case in point the many reviews trying to fault it for not being something... More »
  
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