by Charlie Hobbs, May 24, 2012 9:30 PM
With the second wave of Jean Rollin Blu-ray releases from Redemption/Kino on May 29th, I get to resume this series, and that makes me smile. The first of the discs hitting store shelves next Tuesday is Rollin's debut feature,...
by J Hurtado, May 24, 2012 8:48 PM
The greatest benefit of writing for this Twitch is the soapbox effect. This site gives our staff the ability to champion projects that we believe in that often fall through the cracks at larger outlets. Astron-6 is a perfect...
by J Hurtado, May 23, 2012 11:25 PM
UPDATE! In their infinite wisdom, Troma have decided to scratch nearly all of the great sounding bonus material from the Blu-ray release of Father's Day. There will be no director's commentary, no feature length making-of, and, most sadly, no CD...
by Sean "The Butcher" Smithson, May 21, 2012 4:00 PM
Last season AMC's The Walking Dead really pulled a hat trick, wrapping up a lot of loose ends, ramping up the action, and making some serious ballsy moves as far as who lives and who dies. The series got...
by J Hurtado, May 19, 2012 5:42 PM
2010 seems like a lifetime away in the Sushi Typhoon universe. Mutant Girls Squad was initially finished nearly two years ago and had its premiere screening in Japan two years ago to the day before it's Blu-ray debut on US...
by James Marsh, May 18, 2012 1:22 AM
No this isn't the reptilian sequel to Million Dollar Baby (although that would be awesome), but closer to a Mainland Chinese reimagining of Greg McLean's Rogue. Taiwanese starlet Barbie Hsu (Connected, Reign Of Assassins) plays a vengeful bride-to-be who goes...
by Ard Vijn, May 17, 2012 6:17 AM
There's all sorts of exciting stuff happening at Cannes this year and not just in the arthouse sector, as this trailer for the Franck Khalfoun remake of "Maniac" shows. Bill Lustig's original was sleazy and gory and well, guess what:...
by J Hurtado, May 10, 2012 9:50 PM
Eli, Eli, lama sabachthaniMy God, My God, why have you forsaken me?Robin Hardy's The Wicker Tree, ten years in the making, is a strange conundrum of a film. Hardy's The Wicker Man, from 1973, is the tale of an English...
by J Hurtado, May 9, 2012 10:45 PM
A few weeks ago, the wonderful Kino Lorber launched yet another sublabel after the fantastic Redemption line. The new line, Jezebel, handles some of the sexier titles that have little to do with horror, but plenty to do with exploitation....
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