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Blu-ray Review: The Leopard Man (1943)

Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) is losing her audience at the New Mexico club in which she performs to a Latin dancer named Clo-Clo (Margo), so her manager, Jerry (Dennis O’Keefe), gets the shit-hot idea to add a leopard into her act…and seriously, what could go wrong shoving a large, angry cat into a noisy room of half-drunk folks? Naturally, the answer to that is everything, as Kiki’s rival spooks the beast which exits stage left and goes on a maul-spree around the countryside…but there may be more to the killings than appears on the surface. Filled with a nice sense of mounting tension, creepy atmospherics (no surprise with the legendary Val Lewton serving as producer of the film), and even a dash of mystery, The Leopard Man is a damn solid low-budget shocker. O’Keefe makes for a fine square-jawed hero, the supporting players are charismatic and their characters have surprising depth (especially Margo’s Clo-Clo who has aspirations of wealth and

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DanXIII
Jul 6, 2019
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Movie Review: Hi-Death (2018)

Here it comes boils n’ ghouls; another arcane anthology that will assault our putrid peepers with a multitude of fun-sized fright flicks! Let’s see how Hi-Death stacks up, and if it’ll contain more hits than misses… The obligatory wrap-around segment comes in the form of Terror Tour (written and directed by Brad Sykes) which features two comely lasses taking a horror based tour of L.A. while watching a series of tremble inducing tales along the way. In my opinion these are always the most superfluous of segments in these things, and this gets the job done okay. First up comes Anthony Catanese’s Death Has a Conscience; which tells the story of hardcore music fan and addict (of the fictional drug Spit) Erin (Jensen Jacobs) who decides to come down in a rank-ass motel room. Sounds prosaic enough, except the ol’ Grim Reaper makes the scene to have a heart to heart with our heroine! I enjoyed this one quite a

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DanXIII
Jul 4, 2019
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Tech Horror A.M.I. Coming To Digital

From director Rusty Nixon (Residue, Candiland) comes the tech horror thriller A.M.I., arriving on digital this July. In the film, young Cassie comes across a discarded cell phone with the latest AI on it. Cassie customizes the Artificial Machine Intelligence to sound like her deceased mother which soon fills the void in Cassie’s life. As their relationship deepens, the nurturing and seemingly caring AI drives Cassie to perform heinous acts of murder convincing Cassie that they are totally justifiable. Debs Howard (iZombie, TV’s “The Good Doctor”), Sam Robert Muik (CW’s “Riverdale”), Phil Granger (Syfy’s “Ghost Wars”), Havana Guppy (Hulu’s “Shut Eye”), and Bonnie Hay (TV’s “A Million Little Things”) star. A.M.I. arrives on Digital and On Demand on July 2, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 2, 2019
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New Documentary/Art House Streaming Services Ovid.tv Adding 23 Films

OVID.tv, the new streaming service for documentaries and art-house films, has announced that this week twenty-three (23) films will be joining its growing collection, bringing its library to 500 titles, most unavailable on any other platform. On Friday, June 28, OVID released the last two films in its Pride month program of 20 LGBTQ films, along with three prize-winning documentaries on war, and peace. On Friday, July 12, OVID begins to resurface landmark independent works from the 1960s and 1970s including two films by Robert Kramer, “one of the greatest radical filmmakers of the ’60s and ’70s, [who] mixed fiction with documentary, paying scrupulous attention to the ways in which the personal began to dominate the political.” (Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice), and a collection of three short documentaries made between 1977 and 1980 that are companion pieces to, and by the directors of, the 1978 feature film Northern Lights. On Friday, July 19th comes a collection of six films

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 30, 2019
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Blu-ray Review: American Horror Project: Volume 2 (1970 -1977)

A few years back, those freaky fiends at Arrow Video released a collection of three lesser-seen fringe fright flicks under the name American Horror Project: Volume 1. As you can tell by the title of this review, they have gone done and released a new collection of weird ass shit, and it’s up to your’s cruelly to take the ol’ deep dive and see what these putrid pictures are all about! First up we get: Dream No Evil (1970): An orphan girl spends her days keepin’ the faith that her daddy dearest will re-appear and sweep her away. Well that shit doesn’t come to pass; but she does get adopted and joins a revivalist Preacher in his carny existence. A few doomed romances later, and our heroine finds her daddy all right…laid right out on the mortician’s (who is also a pimp…because…well…) slab. Anyway, her grief resurrects him and he goes on a murder spree as one does. On the

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DanXIII
Jun 26, 2019
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This August, True Detective’s Bea Santos is ‘Blindsided’

“True Detective’s” Bea Santos stars as Sloan Carter, a young girl who has recently been blinded. Her father leaves for the weekend and her two best friends, returning home from University, keep her company. A protege of her father’s, passing through town, also spends the night. The peaceful weekend is interrupted by a shadowy threat and the safe country getaway turns into a fight for survival. Eric Knudsen (Scream 4), Atticus Mitchell (“Killjoys”), Melinda Shankar (“Slasher”), and Paul Popowich (“Hemlock Grove”) also star. From director Johnny Mitchell comes a terrifying, first-rate horror-thriller from Canada. Mitchell, Brandon Tataryn and Brad Weatherly wrote the screenplay. Blindsided lands on DVD and Digital August 13, 2019.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 23, 2019
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Joe Zanetti’s Killbird Screening At Dances With Films Festival

Joe Zanetti‘s makes his directorial debut with his conspiracy thriller Killbird, officially selected for competition at the Dances With Films Festival and will screen on June 23nd, at 12:30 pm at the iconic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, CA. It’s a film that gives the viewer a punch to the gut”, says director, co-writer and co-producer, Joe Zanetti. “It’s meant to shock, it’s meant to raise questions – what is truth? Where is individual agency in our times, and who can we trust?” Elysia Rotaru (Arrow, Supernatural), Stephen Lobo (Continuum, Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Imposters, Battlestar Galactica), and Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica, Man of Steel) star. “In search of help on a birdwatching trip gone wrong, Taylor Crane (Elysia Rotaru) comes across a remote cabin where she meets Riad Bishara (Stephen Lobo), a recluse supposedly on the run from the CIA. Paranoid and seemingly unstable, Riad soon concludes that Taylor is a government agent and holds her

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 19, 2019
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Home Invaders Torture A Group Of Friends In The New ‘Trespassers’ Trailer

IFC Midnight has unleashed the terror-filled trailer for director Orson Oblowitz‘s (The Queen of Hollywood BLVD) blood-drenched film Trespassers. The trailer introduces us to a group of friends on vacation stalked and tortured by a team of home invaders hellbent on making the group suffer. Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Fairuza Balk (The Craft), Jonathan Howard (World War Z), and Zach Avery (Fury) star. In the film, “two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah (Trimbur) and Estelle (Parrish) are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph (Avery) and Victor (Howard), however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman (Balk) claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2019
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‘The Intruder’ Breaking Onto Digital And Blu-ray This July

When a young couple buys their dream home it quickly turns into a nightmare in The Intruder coming to Digital and Blu-ray this July. Starring Michael Ealy (Barber Shop), Meagan Good (The Unborn), and Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) and directed by Deon Taylor (Meet the Blacks), the thriller follows Scott and Annie, a young married couple who buys their dream house in the Napa Valley, thinking it is the ideal place to start a family. When the strangely attached seller (Quaid) continues to infiltrate their lives, they begin to suspect that he has hidden motivations beyond a quick sale. Joseph Sikora, Alvina August, Lili Sepe, Lee Shorten, and Carolyn Anderson co-star in this intense thriller. Roxanne Avent, Deon Taylor, Mark Burg, Jonathan Schwartz, and Brad Kaplan produced the film written by David Loughery (Lakeview Terrace). Robert F. Smith, David Guillod, and David Loughery executive produced. The Intruder arrives on Digital July 16th followed by its Blu-ray and DVD

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2019
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IFC Midnight Unleashes New Poster For Trespassers – Coming To Theaters And On Demand

IFC Midnight has unleashed the poster for director Orson Oblowitz‘s (The Queen of Hollywood BLVD) blood-drenched film Trespassers. Angela Trimbur (The Final Girls), Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars), Fairuza Balk (The Craft), Jonathan Howard (World War Z), and Zach Avery (Fury) star. In the film, “two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex and drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah (Trimbur) and Estelle (Parrish) are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph (Avery) and Victor (Howard), however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a debaucherous night, things take an unexpected turn when a woman (Balk) claiming to be a neighbor with car trouble shows up at the door. She seems harmless enough…or so they think. As the twists and turns pile up so does the body count in this stylish, blood- and neon-soaked thriller which hits with the

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 15, 2019
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