Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / D . Rating: Excellent Label: Let’ em Talk / Released: 2005 / 2006 Tracks & Album Length: 4 / (31:49) . Special Notes: 4-page colour booklet . Composer: Goblin (performed by Dark Water Transit) . . Review: Released in and around 2005/2006, and apparently crafted over a 3-year period, Dawn of […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / D . Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Good Label: Synapse Films / Region: 0 (NTSC) / Released: November 13, 2012 Genre: Documentary / Film History / Horror / Zombies Synopsis: Roy Frumkes’ classic yet ever-changing documentary chronicling George Romero’s work in the zombie genre. Special […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / D . Rating: Very Good Label: Trunk Records (U.K.)/ Released: May 19, 2004 Tracks & Album Length: 14 tracks / (38:44) . Special Notes: Colour booklet / Limited to 1000 copies . Composers: erbert Chappell, Paul Lemel, Eric Towren, Pretty Things, Simon Park, Jack Trombey, Derek Scott, Reg Tilsley, Barry […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / D . Rating: Very Good Label: Cinevox (Italy)/ Released: 1998 Tracks & Album Length: 17 tracks / (51:15) . Special Notes: 8-page colour booklet. . Composer: Goblin . . Review: It’s pretty striking that Goblin’s score (most of which was replaced with stock music in the U.S. edit supervised by […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / D . Film: Near Perfection/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Anchor Bay/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: September 14, 2004 Genre: Horror / Zombies Synopsis: Members of an anti-zombie S.W.A.T. team and a TV reporter seek refuge in a massive shopping mall, only to be surrounded […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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