Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Frightfest seems to be utilised as a clever marketing tool by a few of the film companies, with a glut of FF-featured fare coming swiftly to DVD in the weeks that follow the Leicester Square based gathering. In general… Read More DTV Junkyard 35

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… The fear of being trapped in a confined space or an isolated location has always been a continual source of terror for me when it comes to feature films; be it the Arctic desolation of Larry Fessenden’s The Last… Read More DTV Junkyard 34

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Welcome to another week of Andrew Jones’ DTV Junkyard! I jest, but we’re only in August and already the Welshman has seen FIVE of his pictures hit UK DVD this year. The latest is ROBERT, where we discover that… Read More DTV Junkyard 33

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Wikipedia tends to define this weeks’ first two films as ‘natural horror movies’, but I think the term I prefer is undoubtedly ‘nature run amok’. A star-laded slice of Canuxploitation is to come later, but first up is CAMERA… Read More DTV Junkyard 32

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… As they did with Unhallowed Ground a few weeks back, Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment once again release another title with ridiculous artwork that bears no resemblance to the events that occur within. On the plus side, by doing so, it… Read More DTV Junkyard 31

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Cwmgwrach, which translates as The Valley of the Witch, is a small Welsh Village outside the town of Port Talbot, which was the subject of a book by local author and retired milkman, Ian Currie. Speaking about his work,… Read More DTV Junkyard 30

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… The postman cut a somewhat chastened figure this week as he foraged endlessly in his weighty sack for the contents of this weeks’ DTV Junkyard. In contrast to the dearth of direct to video fodder of late, this week… Read More DTV Junkyard 29

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I really enjoyed Jon Knautz’ first two feature films; Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer was simply all kinds of fun, a throwback to a different era of horror movies where comedy could be seamlessly integrated into the mix. As TV… Read More DTV Junkyard 28

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Released in 2010 The Ford Brothers’ movie The Dead wowed us with its African setting, while also managing to offer a flesh-eating reminder of classic zombie pictures of old. Unlike the conveyor belt of cash-in’s made during this undead… Read More DTV Junkyard 27