Attack Of The Morningside Monster:
Attack your DVD player with this truly original horror drama from director Chris Ethridge. Featuring a fantastic cast including the increasingly more-awesome Tiffany Shepis, Attack tackles heavy themes with humor, horror, torture and more. Yeah, you might guess the twist fairly easily. Even I, the world's most clueless reviewer, caught on eventually, but that didn't stop me from having one of the best times I've had with an independent, low budget horror feature, in many months.

A wildly assured grasp of tone leads you into the story of a few residents in the quaint village of Morningside. Sheriff Tom Haulk (Robert Pralgo) has his hands full trying to balance the needs of his greenhorn deputy son while chasing down some sleazy drug runners. His best friend Mark (Nicholas Brendon) leans on Tom while caring for his cancer-stricken wife, and if...Read the entire review

THE FILMS:
Do you wake and bake? Do you giggle whenever your friends mention "weed" or "herb" in non-recreational pharmaceutical terms? Is your life just one big black light poster - better yet, do you know what said device is and does? If so, you are probably a pot head. A dope fiend. A friend of Mary Jane and a bong huffing half-wit just wasting away in your parent's basement wondering why the microwave takes so long with your damned Hot Pocket. Either that, or you're Bill Maher. Actually, marijuana is rapidly becoming the gay marriage of current social issues. Many see it's legalization, either for medical purposes or without restriction at all, as the next great debate. Let's just hope no one on the opposition pulls out the horrible educational films featured on the latest release from Apprehensive Films, The 420 Triple Feature Volume 2: Contact High. Together, they make a slam du...Read the entire review

THE FILM:
Have you been to your local Big Lots recently? How about that bastion of lost last hope for all your retail needs - aka Wal-Mart? In either case, as schools are gearing up to open their doors and prepare for the annual ritual known as "Who the Hell Wants to Go Back to Class?" these and other stores are clearing their shelves faster than Oprah cleans a plate of mashed potatoes and, in place of said educational supplies mandated by your local school district, it's time for HALLOWEEN! Yes, we know, it's more than two months before the yearly festival of tricking and/or treating makes your life a living Hell, but why not strike while no one is paying attention to the iron. Maybe they can get you to impulse by that full sized animatronic corpse with realistic blood wound action, or that magical mirror which transforms anyone who looks into it into the spitting image of Marty Feldman.

...Read the entire review

The Movies:

A double dose of European sleaze, the kind that could only be made in the seventies, comes to DVD courtesy of Apprehensive Films who have now bundled together two of their previously available releases and packed'em together just for kicks. Here's a look...

Black Cobra Woman

Directed by the late, great Joe D'Amato in 1976 and originally released as Eva Nera, the movie begins when a beautiful, exotic woman named Eva (Laura Gemser) arrives at the airport in Hong Kong. Here she's approached by Jules Carmichael (Gabriele Tinti) and they talk. We learn she's come to Hong Kong to perform at a nightclub where she's scheduled to do some sort of weird ancient snake dance. Jules, on the other hand, is in town to do some business and hang out with his older brother, a rich snake enthusiast named Judas (Jack Palance).

Later that night we cut to the club a...Read the entire review