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

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… ‘An unspeakable horror that cannot be unseen’ Not really sure which way to take that line of promo spiel from the case of MUCK. We discover a group of friends, emerging from the darkness, bloody and seemingly lucky to… Read More DTV Junkyard 37

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Lizzie Borden, that icon of American folklore who was tried and acquitted for the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Massachusetts has been portrayed in a variety of films; from Paul Wendkos’ The Legend of Lizzie… Read More DTV Junkyard 36

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