Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… With our supermarkets laced with campylobacter infected chickens, those bottom-shelf schlock-fests that ooze out undetected into the retail charts should really be the least of our worries. Having said that, it is alarming just how many features barely register… Read More DTV Junkyard 21

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s first film – Resolution – was nucking futs. Impossible to stick the label of a specific genre on it, this ambiguous piece of art skirted around horror, drama and mystery to both confound and… Read More DTV Junkyard 20

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… As Captain Willard once said “I love the smell of DTV on a Monday morning “ – or words to that effect. Does anyone have a purchasing process for picking up straight to video schlock? You know, like a… Read More DTV Junkyard 19

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Regular readers will know by my alluding to it mercilessly, that I have a video store. Within which, one of my favourite sections is undoubtedly the ‘hide the sharp knives’ shelf of doom, wherein lies a cornucopia of depressing… Read More DTV Junkyard 18

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Oh good, another war-themed zombie movie. I can sense the universal rolling-of-eyes as I type this, but hold your horses there, Freddie Hutton-Mills and Bart Ruspoli’s WORLD WAR DEAD shows more life than many of its undead counterparts. I… Read More DTV Junkyard 17

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Since Secuestro Express made its DVD debut in late 2006, the past nine years have seen me giving a longing look to my Venezuelan section, populated by that one solitary film. Well now, it can cosy up alongside THE… Read More DTV Junkyard 16

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… “Adrián Garciá Bogliano is a director who has firmly planted himself on my radar, and I await his next work with great anticipation”. If there’s ever a closing statement in a film review primed to bite me in the… Read More DTV Junkyard 15

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… When reviewing THE SAMURAI, the Hollywood Reporter raised the question whether it’s a ‘schlocky queer thriller, or a German-language neo-giallo about desire, dreams and doppelgangers’. Either of those fanciful descriptions conjures up an eye-widening frenzy of anticipation, something which… Read More DTV Junkyard 14

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Is Robert Hall one of the most underrated guys in horror? A make-up guy from the get-go, his early career in the late nineties was spent alongside people like Stan Winston on The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Robert… Read More DTV Junkyard 13