Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… “I’m just a guy next door”, opines the titular character in JOHN DOE: VIGILANTE, played with a cocksure arrogance by the excellent Jamie Bamber. Although initial glances may shrug this off as another addition to the endless ‘Saaaaf Landon’… Read More DTV Junkyard 45

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… There’s an English genesis at the heart of THE POOL says director Chris W Mitchell; “It’s from a folk story about a witch-troll that lives at the bottom of pools in the woods, and grabs little children if they… Read More DTV Junkyard 44

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Having never seen anything remotely wrestling orientated in my entire life (abandon me now loyal readership), my oddly placed enthusiasm for all things WWE Studios based seems somewhat peculiar. That said, their slate containing over thirty features is hard… Read More DTV Junkyard 43

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Roger Ebert called Meir Zarchi’s 1978 I Spit on Your Grave “a vile bag of garbage… without a shred of artistic distinction”, and even Mark Kermode concedes that the nature of the film is “deeply, deeply problematic at the… Read More DTV Junkyard 42

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… “I can’t believe this is a series that people pay to watch” moans one of the detractors, and the V/H/S franchise is certainly not short of them, especially with regard to its third outing, V/H/S: VIRAL. The last we… Read More DTV Junkyard 41

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Lightning has struck twice for director Jack Heller in the UK, and not necessarily in a good way. Granted, his first two directorial outings HAVE received British distribution, but both have suffered at the hands of cynical title changes.… Read More DTV Junkyard 40

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… There’s something exciting about feasting your eyes over a virginal IMDb page, untouched by public or critical opinion. As I sat researching THE HAUNTING OF ELLIE ROSE I got that wide-eyed buzz of enthusiasm at the thought of stumbling… Read More DTV Junkyard 39

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… What did I just watch?! Normally, when I’m pre-ordering the following months DTV titles, I tend to have an inbuilt quality control sensor that has a canny knack of filtering out the dirge. Granted, there will always be a… Read More DTV Junkyard 38