Hello, everyone! I hope you have your wallets ready because we have a huge day of horror and sci-fi home media releases this week, and there are a ton of different titles fans are definitely going to want to add to their collections. Blue Underground has given the criminally undercelebrated Dead & Buried the 4K treatment for their 3-Disc Limited Edition release of the film, and if you’re a big fan of sci-fi/action movies, you’ll definitely want to pick up the latest Vestron Video release, The Wraith, which Lionsgate is putting out on Blu this Tuesday as well.
As far as recent genre fare goes, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Jakob’s Wife, Initiation and 32 Malasana Street are all headed home on various formats, and if you happen to be a big fan of the Saw series, you can also nab brand new Blu-rays for the first eight Saw films this week,...
As far as recent genre fare goes, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, Jakob’s Wife, Initiation and 32 Malasana Street are all headed home on various formats, and if you happen to be a big fan of the Saw series, you can also nab brand new Blu-rays for the first eight Saw films this week,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
One of Wakamatsu’s most infamous titles, which, for the particular director’s oeuvre really says something, “Violated Angels” was his second film to screen in Cannes in 1971, along with “Sex Jack”, and followed a somewhat similar fate, by getting distribution after the festival but being banned in a number of countries. The movie was inspired by a real-life incident that took place in Chicago the previous year, when Richard Speck massacred eight student nurses, and was shot in only three days, as long as the actual incident lasted.
The, as always, minimalist narrative takes place inside a dormitory, where, as the “story” begins, a number of female nurses are peeking at two of them having sex. One of the “voyeurs” spots a passerby walking outside their dormitory, and decides to invite him in to watch the spectacle with them. Alas, the man’s first reaction is...
The, as always, minimalist narrative takes place inside a dormitory, where, as the “story” begins, a number of female nurses are peeking at two of them having sex. One of the “voyeurs” spots a passerby walking outside their dormitory, and decides to invite him in to watch the spectacle with them. Alas, the man’s first reaction is...
- 3/28/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Gather round, Mindhunter fans, because author John Douglas is releasing a brand-new book with writer and filmmaker Mark Olshaker based on Douglas's career spent interviewing violent offenders for the FBI. One of the first criminal profilers and a true pioneer in the behavioral-science method of law enforcement, Douglas has interviewed murderers like Charles Manson, Ed Kemper, and David Berkowitz. His latest book, A Killer's Shadow, details the complicated case of serial killer and bank robber Joseph Paul Franklin, a white supremacist who is suspected of murdering more than 20 people in the 1970s and '80s.
A high-priority case for the FBI, Franklin targeted Black and Jewish citizens as well as interracial couples during his violent spree. He roamed around the country and often shot his victims with a long-range rifle, and confessed to wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and shooting well-known magazine publisher Larry Flynt. His transient tendencies made...
A high-priority case for the FBI, Franklin targeted Black and Jewish citizens as well as interracial couples during his violent spree. He roamed around the country and often shot his victims with a long-range rifle, and confessed to wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and shooting well-known magazine publisher Larry Flynt. His transient tendencies made...
- 10/27/2020
- by Murphy Moroney
- Popsugar.com
Netflix's Ratched kicks off the season with two main plotlines featuring Nurse Mildred Ratched (Sarah Paulson) and a serial killer named Edmund Tolleson (Finn Wittrock). Early on, we see their paths converge when Nurse Ratched, who manipulates her way into working at a psychiatric institution called Lucia State Hospital visits Edmund in the basement of the facility where he's being held after murdering several priests. The two share a tender moment, though they don't explicitly say how they know each other. It's eventually revealed, however, that Edmund is the adoptive brother of Nurse Ratched. So how exactly did they end up in their truly unfortunate situations? Well, it's a very grim backstory.
After Edmund's biological mother was sexually assaulted by a priest, she became a sex worker, which led to her death. This makes Edmund an orphan who is forced to endure a series of abusive foster homes with Nurse Ratched.
After Edmund's biological mother was sexually assaulted by a priest, she became a sex worker, which led to her death. This makes Edmund an orphan who is forced to endure a series of abusive foster homes with Nurse Ratched.
- 9/20/2020
- by Brea Cubit
- Popsugar.com
From insidious hydrotherapy sessions to corrupt psychiatrists, Netflix's Ratched is full of unsavory happenings. The series, in fact, opens with Finn Wittrock's Edmund Tolleson ruthlessly massacring a group of priests. But horrific as they may be, were any crimes from Ratched real? While the character of Nurse Ratched takes inspiration from an actual person, Ratched, for the most part, is fictionalized.
No grisly moment in Ratched is outside the realm of possibility - the show, after all, is a psychological thriller, not a fantasy horror. Mildred's portrayal as an "angel of mercy" in the Army is rooted in the stereotype (as well as the reality) of killer caregivers. Psychiatric treatments on the show, such as hydrotherapy and ice-pick lobotomies, also really did exist. And as the series portrays it, hydrotherapy was far from being a relaxing bath, realistically consisting of a patient being strapped inside a tub.
As...
No grisly moment in Ratched is outside the realm of possibility - the show, after all, is a psychological thriller, not a fantasy horror. Mildred's portrayal as an "angel of mercy" in the Army is rooted in the stereotype (as well as the reality) of killer caregivers. Psychiatric treatments on the show, such as hydrotherapy and ice-pick lobotomies, also really did exist. And as the series portrays it, hydrotherapy was far from being a relaxing bath, realistically consisting of a patient being strapped inside a tub.
As...
- 9/20/2020
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
Mindhunter may not live to solve another crime at Netflix.
The David Fincher crime thriller aired its second season five months ago, and there has been no formal renewal announcement from the streamer.
Even more concerning is that Netflix let the cast options expire last month, meaning they can go on to new projects that are not related to the series.
Fincher, who is known for having creative control of the projects he has in the works, is working on the Netflix film Mank as well as the second season of Love, Death and Robots."
A Netflix spokesperson told Deadline that he might "revisit" Mindhunter down the line, but he felt it "wasn't fair to the actors" to keep them from moving on to other opportunities.
While the streamer would like fans not to be worried about the future of the series, it's difficult not to. When actors move on to other projects,...
The David Fincher crime thriller aired its second season five months ago, and there has been no formal renewal announcement from the streamer.
Even more concerning is that Netflix let the cast options expire last month, meaning they can go on to new projects that are not related to the series.
Fincher, who is known for having creative control of the projects he has in the works, is working on the Netflix film Mank as well as the second season of Love, Death and Robots."
A Netflix spokesperson told Deadline that he might "revisit" Mindhunter down the line, but he felt it "wasn't fair to the actors" to keep them from moving on to other opportunities.
While the streamer would like fans not to be worried about the future of the series, it's difficult not to. When actors move on to other projects,...
- 1/16/2020
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
“Mindhunter” fans have been wondering whether or not Netflix will move forward on a third season of the David Fincher serial killer drama since the latest season dropped August 16, 2019, and now comes word the acclaimed show is being put on indefinite hold. TVLine confirms “Mindhunter” cast members Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, and Anna Torv have been released from their contracts. The show has not been cancelled, but a third season is not being actively developed at the moment because Fincher is spending much of 2020 working on his new feature film, “Mank.”
A Netflix representative told TVLine’s Michael Ausiello: “David is focused on directing his first Netflix film ‘Mank’ and on producing the second season of ‘Love, Death and Robots.’ He may revisit ‘Mindhunter’ again in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair to the actors to hold them from seeking other work while he...
A Netflix representative told TVLine’s Michael Ausiello: “David is focused on directing his first Netflix film ‘Mank’ and on producing the second season of ‘Love, Death and Robots.’ He may revisit ‘Mindhunter’ again in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair to the actors to hold them from seeking other work while he...
- 1/16/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Nick Harley Aug 20, 2019
Mindhunter Season 2 introduces Ted Gunn and removes some red tape to allow the series to focus on what matters: the cases.
The following contains spoilers for Mindhunter season 2.
One of the biggest draws of Mindhunter, David Fincher’s true crime-inspired Netflix series, is the way that it details the origins of criminal profiling on the homicidal and insane. Countless times, in a myriad of TV series and movies, we’ve seen hotshot detectives and brainy FBI agents track down murderers and bring them to justice, but seldomly have audiences been asked to think about the way these sleuths developed the tools to crack these cases and make sense of the twisted minds that perpetrated them.
On the series, it’s genuinely exciting to see Agent Holden Ford coin the term “serial killer” or, alongside Agent Bill Tench and Dr. Wendy Carr, deduce that many of these psychopathic crimes contain sexual elements.
Mindhunter Season 2 introduces Ted Gunn and removes some red tape to allow the series to focus on what matters: the cases.
The following contains spoilers for Mindhunter season 2.
One of the biggest draws of Mindhunter, David Fincher’s true crime-inspired Netflix series, is the way that it details the origins of criminal profiling on the homicidal and insane. Countless times, in a myriad of TV series and movies, we’ve seen hotshot detectives and brainy FBI agents track down murderers and bring them to justice, but seldomly have audiences been asked to think about the way these sleuths developed the tools to crack these cases and make sense of the twisted minds that perpetrated them.
On the series, it’s genuinely exciting to see Agent Holden Ford coin the term “serial killer” or, alongside Agent Bill Tench and Dr. Wendy Carr, deduce that many of these psychopathic crimes contain sexual elements.
- 8/19/2019
- Den of Geek
This post contains full spoilers for Mindhunter Season Two, which Netflix released on Friday.
“Seems to me, everything you know about serial killers has been gleaned from the ones who’ve been caught,” convicted murderer Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton) tells Mindhunter heroes Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) midway through the Netflix drama’s second season. Kemper is trying to insert himself into one of Ford and Tench’s ongoing investigations, but the line also plays as something of a meta comment on Mindhunter Season One. In that original batch of episodes,...
“Seems to me, everything you know about serial killers has been gleaned from the ones who’ve been caught,” convicted murderer Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton) tells Mindhunter heroes Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) midway through the Netflix drama’s second season. Kemper is trying to insert himself into one of Ford and Tench’s ongoing investigations, but the line also plays as something of a meta comment on Mindhunter Season One. In that original batch of episodes,...
- 8/19/2019
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
1. “Glow” Season 3 (available August 9)
Why Should I Watch? The first two seasons of “Glow” were among the best reviewed of their given years, and there’s no reason to suspect Season 3 won’t keep the streak going. Starring the dynamite duo of Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, “Glow” is a vivid, exciting, perceptive, funny, enlivening, well-acted, and beautifully captured comedy about a group of women wrestlers in the ’80s who band together to put out a compelling TV program built around their unique talents and personalities. “Glow” thrives by mimicking that same ambition, and Season 3 sees them relocating to Las Vegas, where they’ll host live events at one of the casinos. Expect more neon than ever, along with new series regular Geena Davis.
Bonus Reason: The central, slow-burn relationship in “Glow” isn’t a romance, but a friendship. Ever since the pilot, former best friends Ruth (Brie) and Debbie...
Why Should I Watch? The first two seasons of “Glow” were among the best reviewed of their given years, and there’s no reason to suspect Season 3 won’t keep the streak going. Starring the dynamite duo of Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, “Glow” is a vivid, exciting, perceptive, funny, enlivening, well-acted, and beautifully captured comedy about a group of women wrestlers in the ’80s who band together to put out a compelling TV program built around their unique talents and personalities. “Glow” thrives by mimicking that same ambition, and Season 3 sees them relocating to Las Vegas, where they’ll host live events at one of the casinos. Expect more neon than ever, along with new series regular Geena Davis.
Bonus Reason: The central, slow-burn relationship in “Glow” isn’t a romance, but a friendship. Ever since the pilot, former best friends Ruth (Brie) and Debbie...
- 8/4/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Serial killers are the ultimate compartmentalized criminals — the fear and horror they represent isn’t just there in the gruesomeness of their violence, but in the way they pass among us, impersonating normal people. Seen in that light, Ted Bundy was the ultimate compartmentalized monster. He wasn’t the first hideous murderer to become infamous in the media age; that would be Richard Speck, in 1966. But Speck, at the time, seemed a killer out of central casting; he looked like the monumentally damaged cold-blooded demon-creep he was. Charles Manson, likewise, in his zombie-eyed snake-charmer way, was ideally cast for the role of savage hippie psycho.
Whereas Ted Bundy was handsome and “presentable,” with an easy-going all-American grown-up-boy-next-door jocularity. In the key decade of his crimes, the 1970s, when he was caught and put on trial and rose to a new kind of mass notoriety, a lot of people had trouble...
Whereas Ted Bundy was handsome and “presentable,” with an easy-going all-American grown-up-boy-next-door jocularity. In the key decade of his crimes, the 1970s, when he was caught and put on trial and rose to a new kind of mass notoriety, a lot of people had trouble...
- 1/27/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
A review of “The House of Special Purpose,” this week’s The Romanoffs, coming up just as soon as I blame it on the Method…
“I’m sorry, I… I feel like I’m losing my mind here.” -Olivia
In conversations with fellow critics about this series, “The House of Special Purpose,” which follows an actress who is being tortured by her director, has either been their favorite or least favorite of the three episodes Amazon provided us in advance. No middle ground. I fall in the latter group, though...
“I’m sorry, I… I feel like I’m losing my mind here.” -Olivia
In conversations with fellow critics about this series, “The House of Special Purpose,” which follows an actress who is being tortured by her director, has either been their favorite or least favorite of the three episodes Amazon provided us in advance. No middle ground. I fall in the latter group, though...
- 10/19/2018
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Female Trouble
Blu ray
Criterion
1974 / 1:66 / Street Date June 26, 2018
Starring Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Cinematography by John Waters
Directed by John Waters
The story of one woman’s odyssey from trash-talking trouble maker to tabloid superstar, John Waters’ Female Trouble assembles a hot-tempered crew of terrorist fame whores ready for their close up – America’s Got Talent: Apocalypse Now Edition.
The astonishing Divine plays Dawn Davenport, a spiteful social climber with her heart set on a pair of cha cha heels. When Christmas arrives with no fancy footwear in sight, the brawny teenybopper propels her mom into the Douglas fir and hits the road.
The road hits back – she’s immediately assaulted by a leering factory worker (played by Divine), gives birth, works a strip club, walks the streets and mobilizes a cadre of criminally-minded floozies (“upper-echelon cat burglars”) to shake down the neighborhood.
Seduced by nihilistic fashion mavens Donald and Donna Dasher,...
Blu ray
Criterion
1974 / 1:66 / Street Date June 26, 2018
Starring Divine, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Cinematography by John Waters
Directed by John Waters
The story of one woman’s odyssey from trash-talking trouble maker to tabloid superstar, John Waters’ Female Trouble assembles a hot-tempered crew of terrorist fame whores ready for their close up – America’s Got Talent: Apocalypse Now Edition.
The astonishing Divine plays Dawn Davenport, a spiteful social climber with her heart set on a pair of cha cha heels. When Christmas arrives with no fancy footwear in sight, the brawny teenybopper propels her mom into the Douglas fir and hits the road.
The road hits back – she’s immediately assaulted by a leering factory worker (played by Divine), gives birth, works a strip club, walks the streets and mobilizes a cadre of criminally-minded floozies (“upper-echelon cat burglars”) to shake down the neighborhood.
Seduced by nihilistic fashion mavens Donald and Donna Dasher,...
- 6/23/2018
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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