Tag Archives: Severin Films

Movies Till Dawn: Velour

Posted on April 7, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“The Naked Ape” (1973, Code Red) Vintage curiosity produced by Playboy Enterprises attempts to deliver a “now” interpretation of anthropologist Desmond Morris’s 1967 book on human evolution but instead offers up a fragmented mix of psychedelic animation, tame sex comedy, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: People Who Hit People

Posted on March 18, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“King Boxer” (1972, Arrow Video) Possessed of a steely gaze but only limited fighting skills, a martial arts student (Indonesian actor Lo Lieh) sets out on a journey of self-improvement and becomes embroiled in a battle royale between warring dojos. … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: International House of Crime 2022

Posted on February 19, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“The Beast Must Die” (1952, Flicker Alley) Argentinean adaptation, and the first of three film versions of the 1938 thriller by Nicholas Blake (pen name for Daniel Day-Lewis’s father, Cecil), with Narcisco Ibanez Menta as a mystery author who adopts … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment USA 2022

Posted on February 3, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“The Long Goodbye” (1973, Kino Lorber) A slovenly, muttering Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) navigates two disappearances – a close friend and a Hemingway-style author –but finds his efforts thwarted at every turn by something worse than organized crime: an incestuous, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: The People Next Door

Posted on January 22, 2022 by Paul Gaita

“All Or Nothing” (2002, Severin Films) Studies in quiet (and not so quiet) desperation via three working class families in London, who respond to the millstone of daily life around their necks with a mix of heartbreak, defeat, and carelessness. … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Gets Crazy (Epic-Sized Edition)

Posted on December 18, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“Get Crazy” (1983, Kino Lorber) The stage crew of the Saturn Theater (played by the Wiltern in the midst of its 1980s renovation) works overtime to deliver a New Year’s Eve concert to a frenzied crowd while also contending with … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Wholesome Holiday Entertainment

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“Prisoners of the Ghostland” (2021,RLJE Films) In a post-apocalypse Japan which has reassembled itself as a crazy-quilt hybrid of its feudal era and the American West, the cowboy-hatted leader (Bill Moseley) of a small town sends bank robber Nicolas Cage … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Fun Size Sour Shriekers (Halloween 2021)

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“Roh” (2019, Film Movement) The arrival of a strange little girl with a dire pronouncement sets in motion a chain of terrible events for a rural mother (Farah Ahmad) and her two children. Deceptively simple but deeply disturbing Malaysian supernatural … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Coffin Crisp Wafer Bar (Halloween 2021)

Posted on October 29, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“The Stand” (2021, CBS Home Video/Paramount Home Video) Miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling apocalypse novel for CBS All Access is a vast improvement over the 1994 TV version, but still struggles to present a coherent encapsulation of the story’s … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Chocolate Vampire Kisses (Halloween 2021 Edition)

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Paul Gaita

“Kolchak: The Night Stalker  (The Complete Series)” (1974-75, Kino Lorber) Having survived a vampire in Las Vegas and an undead strangler beneath the city of Seattle, reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin, still decades away from playing the Old Man from … Continue reading →

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