Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… You have to agree that Scott Adkins has been the best thing to happen to DTV action movies in a long, long time. The forty year-old Brit has been in some of the most kick-ass actioners to grace the… Read More DTV Junkyard 93
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Welcome to this weeks’ edition of 4Digital roulette, where the veteran British distro release another horror-themed curiosity with a virginal IMDb page. Their latest title is the frequently frustrating Italy-lensed DTV’er DARK SILENCE, or The Blind King as it… Read More DTV Junkyard 92
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… If I devoted the intro to DTV Junkyard as a love letter to my favourite zombie movies of all time, then chances are I’d still be waxing lyrical until next weeks’ edition. I must add though, that of late,… Read More DTV Junkyard 91
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… When you’re mulling over the greatest ever ornithological horror and suspense movies, there’s really little point in continuing the debate past a 1963 masterpiece shot by the guy with the most recognisable silhouette in movie history. On the flip… Read More DTV Junkyard 90
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Pretty exciting huh! LEATHERFACE; a Texas Chain Saw Massacre franchise entry that has the potential to sit snugly alongside the heady insanity of Tobe Hooper’s 1986 sequel. Why? Well, when you have the creative team behind such Gallic wonders… Read More DTV Junkyard 89
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… I actually remember Benjamin Cooper’s directorial debut quite vividly, in all its Film 2000 big box VHS glory. Set against the backdrop of a nuclear war, The Omega Diary was a cool little indie made for chump change that… Read More DTV Junkyard 88
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… While the last few weeks have seen a wealth of platitudes for a litany of boutique distros, not least newbie label du jour Indicator, no one really bestows any praise on the movers and shakers in the direct-to-video world.… Read More DTV Junkyard 87
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Odeon Entertainment, the perennial fixture of the UK Home Entertainment industry changed their name, logo and twisted their remit earlier this year to rebrand themselves as Screenbound; the idea being to both prevent an increased number of theatrical releases… Read More DTV Junkyard 86
Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats. Step inside the DTV Junkyard… Do we talk about The Collector and its sequel enough? That lean, efficient horror twosome with some badass make-up from Gary J. Tunnicliffe. I’m not sure we do, and the same applies to its writer-director, Marcus Dunstan, who during… Read More DTV Junkyard 85
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