Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Sometimes I just have to put my head in my hands after I read the stoney-faced, harrumphing reviews of my contemporaries. So many of them are such miserable mofo’s, devoid of the ability to engage in a ninety minute… Read More DTV Junkyard 58

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I’m such a sucker for vehicular hunter / prey themed movies. The ironic thing is, once you’ve seen Steven Spielberg’s Duel, is there any real point in continuing this quest. It’s the pinnacle, right? Irrespective of that artistic high… Read More DTV Junkyard 57

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… When you’re browsing horror movies on IMDb, you can always spot a film that played at FrightFest as the critic reviews usually outnumber the user ones by about ten to one. It’s a familiar tale, and despite Zombie Hamster… Read More DTV Junkyard 56

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Are Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins the Scorsese and De Niro of the B-movie action world? Chuckle you may, but thirteen years of collaboration has yielded seven features of impressive consistency. Beginning back in 2003 with the criminally underseen… Read More DTV Junkyard 55

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… If there’s a consistent thread that can be applied to the Blumhouse produced features that have hit DVD in the last year, it’s their unwavering mediocrity. The Gallows, The Lazarus Effect and Mercy have been notable only for their… Read More DTV Junkyard 54

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Without doubt, one of the most consistent aspects of Zombie Hamster is Matty and I writing from the same hymn sheet, sharing a harmonious adoration for those orphaned schlockers, abandoned by the mass populace. A rare moment of disunity… Read More DTV Junkyard 53

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Shot way back in 2012, Lord of Tears – now retitled as THE OWLMAN, has seemingly been on the cusp of a good distribution deal for some time. Premiering to great notices at the 2013 Bram Stoker International Film… Read More DTV Junkyard 52

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Without wishing to blow the Junkyard’s trumpet, it’s pleasing to think of this place as a kind of indefatigable champion of the neglected. It’s home to the genre orphans who are too poor to lick the collective PR asses… Read More DTV Junkyard 51

Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Born in 1968, the legendary Alan Smithee is highly revered in Zombie Hamster circles, so when his latest film, DEATH CALL aka OLD 37, was announced for UK release, there was an audible gasp of excitement in the Zombie… Read More DTV Junkyard 50