Sometimes, lightning strikes twice. It happened for Coppola with Godfather I and II; it happened for James Cameron with Terminator I and II. For Martin Scorsese, it’s happened so many times that he spends his off-season working as an electrical conductor for Yellowstone.
Read MoreSleepaway Camp (1983) #BluRay
At their heart, the best horror movies aren’t really horror movies at all. It may sound like an odd assessment, but, even a cursory glance of the classics of the genre will turn up films that are, both literally and figuratively, about child abuse and neglect, infidelity and betrayal, post-traumatic stress disorder, the urban/rural culture clash, and the role of violent media in modern society. Horror is merely the medium in which these unsavory topics can be openly addressed and discussed; there’s only so much that polite society wants to acknowledge about itself, at least within the confines of normal, everyday, human interactions.
Read MoreCandyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) #BluRay
The 1990s was a difficult time for horror. After the monumental success it enjoyed in the 1980s, it appeared as if the genre had briefly lost its way, with the great wave of the slashers giving way to a veritable wasteland in the first half of the decade; and while Wes Craven’s Scream helped to make fright cinema relevant again, it wouldn’t be until the early 00s’ that consistently quality films began to appear again in the numbers they’d once enjoyed. As such, it makes sense that a confused, frustrated decade would give birth to some confused, frustrated franchises.
Read MoreDeath Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) #BluRay
After accidentally killing the love of his life during sex, a demon curses his bed to become an eternal killing machine, feeding on all those who dare lie down within it. Passed through the ages, racking up the highest body count of any bed since that of Magic Johnson in 1989, has the bed finally met its match in the form of three women visiting the country on vacation in modern times? Famously mocked by Patton Oswalt, in which he mistakenly, but less awkwardly titles it Death Bed: The Bed That Eats PEOPLE, Death Bed is a curio of a movie if there ever was one.
Read MoreShock Waves (1977) #BluRay
After colliding with a ghostly ship, the Captain, crew, and passengers of a rusty old yacht are forced to dock on the shore of a remote island. It soon becomes clear that they are not alone as they discover that this particular island is the breeding ground for a Nazi commandant to raise a group of World War II super soldiers from the dead into his own zombie army, ready to take over the world. The Nazis as zombie flick subgenre is populated a lot more densely than you might think.
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