CanCon101: Cathy’s Curse (1977)
In the latest installment of CanCon 101, a review of Eddy Matalon’s canuxploitation classique Cathy’s Curse (1977), released on Blu via Severin Films.
Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review
BR: Cathy’s Curse (1977)
After a long period of illegal availability and ersatz public domain releases, Eddy Matalon’s riff on The Exorcist (1973) and The Omen (1976) makes its way to Blu-ray in a striking special edition, sporting both the shorter U.S. cut and the original director’s cut, but after years of intriguing descriptions in posts and reviews by the few who sought out and sat down to view this CanCon fromagerie, Cathy’s Curse isn’t for every genre connoisseur…
DVD: Disorder / Maryland (2015)
Vincent’s suspicions of a looming crisis – an attack, kidnapping, or murder – has him sleeping in 2 hour shifts, monitoring the estate’s lone inhabitants: a cook and servant, the industrilist’s wife Jessie, and her young son Ali…
DVD: Man on Fire (1987)
The first filming of A. J. Quinnell’s novel harkens back to 1987, when French director Élie Chouraqui adapted the tale of a hired gun-tuned-babysitter with Sergio Donati. Veteran indie producer Arnon Milchan perhaps ensured the film had more gloss than its otherwise modest budget, with Italian locations in Rome, Milan…
BR: Baby Boom (1987)
Former husband and wife team of Charles Shyer and Nancy Myers (Private Benjamin, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II) concocted this surprisingly effective update of a classic screwball comedy, and although the pair may not have intended Baby Boom to be a time capsule of mores and conflicts of women juggling career and family in the mid-1980s…
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