Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Cellar Dweller 1987

  ★★½ Rewatched 23 Mar 2025

  Kinda like a dumb extended episode Tales from the Crypt. A bit of good gore and creature effects, though many of them are kind of cheated through the comic strip angle. I saw this is Don Mancini's one script that WASN'T a Child's Play film, and the cinematography by Sergio Salvati, a Fulci regular. It had some nods to that as well in the whole cursed book they have in the basement; "Woe be unto them..." This could probably have been PG-13 without the tits. Okay time waster, a bit too tame for jaded fans probably, but unmistakably 80s. Arrow blu-ray.

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  The Killer Is Not Alone 1975

  ★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025

  Somewhat clunky in it's execution, but beautifully shot Spanish giallo-esque character study. Sleazy story but all done pretty low key. Still, for it's time in Spain it was pushing boundaries. The overall vibe it puts out is remarkably off-kilter, so what it lacks in substance it makes up for in style.

  Not sure what else to say about it, but it's definitely the best Spanish film about a traumatized, possibly schizophrenic, rhinoceros collecting hot dog fanatic with a possible foot fetish and a handy pocket-sized rhino-themed piano wire tool that can double as a garrote OR sausage slicer that I've seen this year. Mondo Macabro blu-ray.

Popular reviews

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  Vice Squad 1982

  ★★★★½ Watched 20 Mar 2025

  Bang! Bang! Shoot 'em up, feelin' just fine! Been baptized in the river, of the Neon Slime!

  Wings Hauser at his best in this film, carrying the entire thing with his sheer presence. Ramrod will go down (for me anyway) as one of the greatest cinematic villains in exploitation film. RIP Wings...

  The best review of the film ever is already given (full of spoilers and laughs) by Patrice O'Neal and Jim Norton.

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  Touch of Death 1988

  ★★★½ Rewatched 20 Mar 2025

  Sure, it's low budget and the story is unoriginal, but if you are a fan of Fulci you can do a lot worse than this one. I'd personally consider this one of his better later efforts. It's light & humorous, and loaded with his trademark gory, graphic violence. Halsey is great, going through various disguises as he goes along, and listening to his tape deck calling him out for his mistakes. I was beginning to think he may be a little crazy or something... His ginger cat Reginald gets plenty to eat in this as well; living his best life! Rewatched on the 88 Films blu-ray.