Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Sigh. It had all started pretty excitingly for the UK arm of long established American distributor TriCoast. First out of the traps was Bernard Rose’s latest Tolstoy adaptation, 2 Jacks, while not far behind it came the cool adventure… Read More DTV Junkyard 61

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Another week, and another glut of direct-to-video movies that would all feature quite comfortably within the detritus stained walls of the DTV Junkyard, so for the sake of simplicity I’ve plucked a threesome of homegrown horror’s to analyse. The… Read More DTV Junkyard 60

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… There was a veritable bounty of movies dropping onto the bloodstained DTV Junkyard doormat on Monday. As always, ZH tends to favour the outsiders of the group, so while films like Cherry Tree, Night of the Living Deb, Mercury… Read More DTV Junkyard 59

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Sometimes I just have to put my head in my hands after I read the stoney-faced, harrumphing reviews of my contemporaries. So many of them are such miserable mofo’s, devoid of the ability to engage in a ninety minute… Read More DTV Junkyard 58

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I’m such a sucker for vehicular hunter / prey themed movies. The ironic thing is, once you’ve seen Steven Spielberg’s Duel, is there any real point in continuing this quest. It’s the pinnacle, right? Irrespective of that artistic high… Read More DTV Junkyard 57

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… When you’re browsing horror movies on IMDb, you can always spot a film that played at FrightFest as the critic reviews usually outnumber the user ones by about ten to one. It’s a familiar tale, and despite Zombie Hamster… Read More DTV Junkyard 56

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Are Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins the Scorsese and De Niro of the B-movie action world? Chuckle you may, but thirteen years of collaboration has yielded seven features of impressive consistency. Beginning back in 2003 with the criminally underseen… Read More DTV Junkyard 55

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… If there’s a consistent thread that can be applied to the Blumhouse produced features that have hit DVD in the last year, it’s their unwavering mediocrity. The Gallows, The Lazarus Effect and Mercy have been notable only for their… Read More DTV Junkyard 54

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Without doubt, one of the most consistent aspects of Zombie Hamster is Matty and I writing from the same hymn sheet, sharing a harmonious adoration for those orphaned schlockers, abandoned by the mass populace. A rare moment of disunity… Read More DTV Junkyard 53