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The Schlock Pit

The home of film critics Matty Budrewicz and Dave Wain who, for the best part of a decade, have parlayed their shared, lifelong obsession with horror, B-movies, and direct-to-video shenanigans into a writing career.

DTV Junkyard 23

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… FEARnet, the American digital cable television network, probably won’t signal a light bulb of recognition for the majority of our UK readers, but this horror-themed venture which enjoyed an eight year lifespan between 2006 and 2014 did come up… Read More DTV Junkyard 23

September 25, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 22

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… As I’m sure you all do – in fact it may be the very reason you’re reading this – whenever you ponder over picking up a horror movie, you gauge the general consensus over at the IMDb external reviews… Read More DTV Junkyard 22

September 24, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 21

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… With our supermarkets laced with campylobacter infected chickens, those bottom-shelf schlock-fests that ooze out undetected into the retail charts should really be the least of our worries. Having said that, it is alarming just how many features barely register… Read More DTV Junkyard 21

September 23, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 20

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s first film – Resolution – was nucking futs. Impossible to stick the label of a specific genre on it, this ambiguous piece of art skirted around horror, drama and mystery to both confound and… Read More DTV Junkyard 20

September 22, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 19

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… As Captain Willard once said “I love the smell of DTV on a Monday morning “ – or words to that effect. Does anyone have a purchasing process for picking up straight to video schlock? You know, like a… Read More DTV Junkyard 19

September 21, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 18

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Regular readers will know by my alluding to it mercilessly, that I have a video store. Within which, one of my favourite sections is undoubtedly the ‘hide the sharp knives’ shelf of doom, wherein lies a cornucopia of depressing… Read More DTV Junkyard 18

September 20, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 17

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Oh good, another war-themed zombie movie. I can sense the universal rolling-of-eyes as I type this, but hold your horses there, Freddie Hutton-Mills and Bart Ruspoli’s WORLD WAR DEAD shows more life than many of its undead counterparts. I… Read More DTV Junkyard 17

September 19, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 16

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Since Secuestro Express made its DVD debut in late 2006, the past nine years have seen me giving a longing look to my Venezuelan section, populated by that one solitary film. Well now, it can cosy up alongside THE… Read More DTV Junkyard 16

September 18, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 15

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… “Adrián Garciá Bogliano is a director who has firmly planted himself on my radar, and I await his next work with great anticipation”. If there’s ever a closing statement in a film review primed to bite me in the… Read More DTV Junkyard 15

September 17, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

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