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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 5

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

August 31, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 4

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

August 30, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

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 3

August 29, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 2

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

August 28, 2016November 4, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

DTV Junkyard 1

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

August 26, 2016November 5, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

Killjoy’s Psycho Circus (2016)

Dave sticks Full Moon’s latest clown-sploiter on the slab.… Read More Killjoy’s Psycho Circus (2016)

July 1, 2016June 16, 2020 Dave WainLeave a comment

Blu-Ray Review: The Suckling (1990)

A decent if barren Blu-ray for a superlative low-budget monster flick. … Read More Blu-Ray Review: The Suckling (1990)

May 24, 2016May 15, 2020 Matty BudrewiczLeave a comment

Evil Bong: High 5 (2016)

Matty takes a puff on the latest time-killing instalment of Full Moon’s most maligned franchise, which is just about worth this month’s Full Moon Streaming fee.… Read More Evil Bong: High 5 (2016)

April 21, 2016June 16, 2020 Matty BudrewiczLeave a comment

The Los Angeles Ripper (2011)

Troma are renowned for the quality (be it Troma quality) of their in-house productions, the latest – Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 comes to UK DVD in July. Their acquisitions however vary quite dramatically from the woeful (mentioning no names) to the pretty damned fine, for example Killer Nerd (1991), Cannibal! The Musical… Read More The Los Angeles Ripper (2011)

March 25, 2016November 17, 2017 Dave WainLeave a comment

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