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

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… When reviewing THE SAMURAI, the Hollywood Reporter raised the question whether it’s a ‘schlocky queer thriller, or a German-language neo-giallo about desire, dreams and doppelgangers’. Either of those fanciful descriptions conjures up an eye-widening frenzy of anticipation, something which… Read More DTV Junkyard 14

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Is Robert Hall one of the most underrated guys in horror? A make-up guy from the get-go, his early career in the late nineties was spent alongside people like Stan Winston on The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Robert… Read More DTV Junkyard 13

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Things were looking up for Andrew Jones, Wales’ very own writer-producer-director extraordinaire.  That is if, like many folk, you consider IMDb to be the sole barometer of a films worth, then his celluloid CV was on an upward trajectory… Read More DTV Junkyard 12

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Written and directed by Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch, STARRY EYES entered the public consciousness with a Kickstarter campaign back in the spring of 2013. It’s never a case of opening the crowdfunding window, lying back and waiting for… Read More DTV Junkyard 11

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I had one of those tiresome encounters the other week. One of those moments that’s exclusively confined to social media. It was a status that someone posted, a baiting status; one which is the real life equivalent of standing… Read More DTV Junkyard 10

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