Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… We Brits have always been a little contemptuous of low budget filmmaking, spending our time littering the review sections of Amazon with one-star diatribes peppered with the usual embarrassing clichés like “I could have done it better myself.” Perhaps… Read More DTV Junkyard 107
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Robert Rhine is the Founder, Publisher and Deaditor-In-Chief of the spectacular Girls and Corpses Magazine, which under their self-titled banner has unleashed such micro-budget fare as Blood Rites (2012), The Meat Puppet (2012) and Paramedics (2016) upon the world;… Read More DTV Junkyard 106
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… A couple of years ago, Michael and Gerald Crum succeeded in irritating the life out of me with their debut movie. A Haunting at Cypress Creek (2014), formerly Lake Fear elicited this venomous analysis: “Maybe three or four times a year,… Read More DTV Junkyard 105
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… My ramblings on Left Films’ releases over the years have been done with a certain degree of despair, with precious few glimpses of low budget nectar rising up from a sea of weary mediocrity. Recently though, the UK-based distro… Read More DTV Junkyard 104
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… One thing that’s predictably absent from the DVD cover of WITHIN is ‘From the director of Lesbian Vampire Killers’, presumably because it’s taken the British-born helmer, Phil Claydon, the best part of eight years to shake free from the… Read More DTV Junkyard 103
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Luca Boni and Marco Ristori have been knee-deep in the murky world of low-rent zombie schlock for the best part of their career, pumping out a glut of Italian-lensed z-grade ode’s to the undead like Eaters (2011), Apocalypse Z… Read More DTV Junkyard 102
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… The inner workings of the film distribution business is an entity that I accept I’ll never understand, with one being how works of genuine artistic capability are left to rot in obscurity, pining for attention with the longing eyes… Read More DTV Junkyard 101
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Give us a horror movie with a greasepaint-laden felon, and we’re a contented crowd. CLOWN KILL, the latest low-budgeter with a red-nosed wretch may hover precariously over the second-hand dustbin of doom at times, but it just about manages… Read More DTV Junkyard 100
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… So, the last gay lead character in a horror movie was? I’ll wait. I may be waiting a while, because it’s an outrageous oversight that seems to be in direct contradiction to the make-up of the general population. Wasn’t… Read More DTV Junkyard 99
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