Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / A . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label: Zero Day Releasing / Region: 0 (NTSC) / Released: September 22, 2010 Genre: Documentary / Film History Synopsis: Documentary and interviews with 21 participants of George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.” Special Features: […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / N to O . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: n/a/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: Elite / Region: n/a/ Released: n/a Genre: Documentary / Film History Synopsis: Documentary and interviews celebrating the 25th anniversary of George A. Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.” Special Features: n/a . . Review: Made […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / N to O . Rating: Excelent Label: Zero Day Releasing/ Released: 2010 Tracks & Album Length: 41 tracks (52:09) . Special Notes: Digipak case with 12-page black & white booklet with stills and liner notes. . Composers: pencer Moore, William Loose, Jack Cookerly, John Seely, George Hormel, Ib Glindenmann, Phil […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / N to O . Film: Very Good/ BR Transfer: Very Good/ BR Extras: Very Good Label: Twilight Time / Region: All / Released: October 9, 2012 Genre: Horror / Zombies Synopsis: Very successful remake of George Romero’s classic zombie film, updated with colour, a bit more gore, and a […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / N to O . Film: Excellent/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Excellent Label: Elite Entertainment/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: March 12, 2002 Genre: Horror / Zombies Synopsis: Some ‘living’ people are trapped in a farmhouse, surrounded by the undead who have risen from the grave thanks to […]
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
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
Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping
In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”
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.
The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.
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…
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