Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Horror-comedy, that awkward genre that either pisses off the gore brigade for being too vanilla, or it royally freaks out the mainstream folk who go in expecting Beetlejuice. It’s a tough balance to strike, but recent years have been… Read More DTV Junkyard 9

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Genre film distribution is a largely faceless operation in the UK, save for Fran Simeoni at Arrow, and also perhaps Rich and James of 88 Films who seem to tentatively be edging their heads above the parapet of social… Read More DTV Junkyard 8

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… SURVIVAL CODE arrives with a sleeve that’s more suited to SyFy Channel cheese, and features an elongated box credit to the Alberta government for financial assistance. It doesn’t scream WATCH ME, but as Lemony Snicket once said “first impressions… Read More DTV Junkyard 7

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Bigfoot is searching for a photo for his Facebook profile – “Ah crap, every one of them is blurry…” If you thought your groan at that woeful attempt at humour was loud, then mine when two Sasquatch flicks dropped… Read More DTV Junkyard 6

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… This week February starts its slow ascent into the heights of DTV plenitude, and as with last month it’s a beginning that limps along with all the suppleness of Verbal Kint before it finally hits its stride in a… Read More DTV Junkyard 5

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Gone are the days when the month’s home video release schedule would be neatly carved up like your Mum doing your sandwiches as a kid. These days the juicy bits are heavily weighted towards the back end of each… Read More DTV Junkyard 4

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After last weeks’ sordid orgy of DTV goodness that satisfied a winter of virtual celibacy, this week represents more of a post-coital worrisome look under the duvet towards what lies beneath. That’s not to say it’s a weary trudge,… Read More DTV Junkyard 3

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After last weeks’ sordid orgy of DTV goodness that satisfied a winter of virtual celibacy, this week represents more of a post-coital worrisome look under the duvet towards what lies beneath. That’s not to say it’s a weary trudge,… Read More DTV Junkyard 2

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… After a period of genre movie starvation that seems to dog the final two months of each year that passes, the first week of January opens with a lush supply of direct to video goodness that quenches the thirst… Read More DTV Junkyard 1