Hell Couldn’t Be Much Worse: The Grim Anti-War Message of Red Angel (1966) By Orrin Grey • April 28th, 2022 “If people at home saw me, they’d realize how terrible war was and hate it.”
Good Kung Fu Part One: Shawscope Volume One from Arrow Video By Orrin Grey • March 2nd, 2022 Monsters are better than kung fu, kung fu is a whole lot better than nothing.
A Dark, Dank Death: Blind Beast (1969) on Blu-ray at Last By Orrin Grey • October 28th, 2021 Blind Beast is a film that I had been meaning to watch for decades, ever since I worked in a video store.
Tough Business: Giants and Toys (1958) and the Tragedy of Modernization By Orrin Grey • September 16th, 2021 Every figure in Giants and Toys is ultimately a tragic one, caught up in a web that is eating them all alive.
A Born Man-Eater: Irezumi (1966) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2021 One of the things that makes Irezumi work as brilliantly as it does is the way these moments of violence are handled,
Evil Washes Out Evil: A Daiei Invisible Man Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2021 It’s something of a homecoming to be tackling The Invisible Man Appears and The Invisible Man vs. the Human Fly on Arrow Video Blu here
I Got Myself a Plan: Tremors (1990) on a Very Fancy New Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • January 22nd, 2021 When I was a kid, I had a short list of favorite monster movies that had come out during my lifetime, and Tremors was right at the top.
Your Future is Metal: The Industrial Nightmares of Shinya Tsukamoto By Orrin Grey • August 25th, 2020 It’s all happening at ten thousand miles per hour.
Awkward Brotherly Love: White Fire (1984) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • July 30th, 2020 What’s a little radioactive diamond between siblings?
No Faith Without Blood: The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • March 20th, 2020 It’s barely a spoiler to say that this all ends, as it inevitably must, with a literally burning bed and a homicidally crazed Brendan Fraser, painted red and wearing a barbed wire shirt.
A Very Special Human Being: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 Despite an elder James Cagney being miscast, latex masks and plenty of melodrama, the Lon Chaney biopic still has some of that old Hollywood magic.
Consumed in the Fire of His Own Making: Apprentice to Murder (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 “Apprentice to Murder isn’t an undiscovered classic…but it’s better than its two-and-a-half-star average on Letterboxd would suggest.”
I Want to Tell You a Curious Story: The Prey (1984) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • October 15th, 2019 Despite ample opportunity, The Prey is a slasher that features neither Bigfoot nor Smokey Bear as the villain.
Female Problems: The Sister Street Fighter Collection on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 25th, 2019 Orrin Grey steeps in the Etsuko Shihomi’s Sister Street Fighter trilogy-plus-one.
