Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review

BR: Countess Dracula (1971)

BR: Countess Dracula (1971)

August 16, 2014 | By

After sharing the screen with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood in the WWII film Where Eagles Dare (1968), luscious, voluptuous actress Ingrid Pitt appeared in a pair of classic, iconoclastic vampire films for Hammer, but instead of enjoying a steady career in other genres…

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Film: Sound of Horror / El sonido de la muerte (1966)

Film: Sound of Horror / El sonido de la muerte (1966)

August 16, 2014 | By

This small footnote in Spanish film will maintain a place in horror history largely because it co-starts the pretty Soledad Miranda, and it offered a small role to future Hammer horror queen Ingrid Pitt…

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BR: Vampire Lovers, The (1970)

BR: Vampire Lovers, The (1970)

August 16, 2014 | By

Reportedly the most faithful adaptation of Sheridan le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” The Vampire Lovers is perhaps most lovingly remembered by the many young men who watched wide-eyed as not one but several women bared their boobies in this tale of a vampiress with a taste for pretty young girls…

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BR: Bloody Moon / Die Säge des Todes (1981)

BR: Bloody Moon / Die Säge des Todes (1981)

July 26, 2014 | By

Although promised by German producers he’d have a top American special effects whiz and a score by Pink Floyd (!), after agreeing to make Bloody Moon, Jess Franco discovered the only truth in their sales pitch was the casting of actress Olivia Pascal…

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DVD: Devil Hunter / Sexo-Canibal (1980)

DVD: Devil Hunter / Sexo-Canibal (1980)

July 26, 2014 | By

The second of Severin Films’ Jess Franco-Video Nasty couplet (after Bloody Moon) is this wan tale of a kidnapping gone awry when crooks lose their meal ticket (and sexual pin-cushion) on an island populated by a cannibal cult that periodically offer up the other white meat to a flesh-eating freak…

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