Tag Archives: Arrow Video

Movies Till Dawn: House of the Saturday Morning Strange

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Paul Gaita

“House of Terrors” (1965, Mondo Macabro) In the wake of her husband’s mysterious death, Yuko Kusunoki inherits the titular manse, a gloomy country estate on a mountain side with a hunchbacked caretaker (Ko Nishimura) and spirits intent on doing harm … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Ghost Stories for Christmas

Posted on December 23, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Ghostwatch” (1992, 101 Films/MVD Visual) British mock-documentary (though nothing about it is funny in the least) tricked out as a live TV investigation of supernatural activity involving a mother and her two daughters plagued by a poltergeist whose scope of … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things

Posted on December 10, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Smile” (2022, Paramount Home Video) Burnt-out therapist Sosie (daughter of Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin) Bacon discovers that she is the latest target of a monstrous entity with a diabolical M.O.: it plagues its victims with terrifying hallucinations that drive them … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Mysteries of Life

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Incredible But True” (2022, Arrow Video) Middle-aged couple Alain Chabat and Lea Drucker discover that a bizarre and miraculous aspect of their new suburban home – a tunnel in the basement that sends users 12 hours ahead in time but … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Superstition Mountain (Halloween 2022, Part 4)

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Paul Gaita

Upgrade Dept.: Universal Home Video has released the second volume of its “Classic Monsters Icons of Horror Collection,” featuring several of its legendary creature features in new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray editions. Compiled on the set: James Whale’s “The Bride … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: 1313 Cemetery Way (Halloween 2022, Part 3)

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Nope” (2022, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment) A huge, otherworldly object with an apparent appetite for flesh and blood draws together various desperate types, including a pair of siblings (Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer) stuck with their father’s failing horse ranch … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Haunted Castle (Halloween 2022, Part 2)

Posted on October 14, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1931, Warner Archives Collection) Frustrated by a request by the father (Halliwell Hobbes) of his fiancée (Rose Hobart) to hold off on their wedding, kindly Victorian scientist Henry Jekyll (Fredric March) finds an outlet for … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Spook-a-Rama (Halloween 2022)

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“Night Gallery: Season 2” (1971-72, Kino Lorber) Sophomore season of the Rod Serling-hosted horror anthology series essentially follows the same template as its predecessor, with a respectable number of effective episodes and a sizable number of out-and-out duds. That ratio … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: A Deeper Shade of Black and White

Posted on September 24, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“The Killing” (1956, Kino Lorber) Stanley Kubrick documents the rise and fall of a crew of hardluck thieves who watch their carefully planned robbery of a race track (Bay Meadows in San Mateo) fall to pieces thanks to greed, lust, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Gets Mean

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Paul Gaita

Upgrade Dept: Blue Underground has provided new and/or improved editions of three previously released Blu-ray titles from their vast library of rare horror and cult films. The truly bizarre but entertaining 1975 Italian-US Western “Get Mean,” which pits Tony Anthony’s … Continue reading →

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