The Frankenstein Mythos is updated in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s fantastic, ferocious, and feminist The Bride! Delirious and ambitious, the bonkers flick is bound to divide, but we’re on the side of Hell Yes!
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Snakes on a Plane [2006] [Arrow Video 4KUHD/Blu-Ray LE]
Snakes on the Plane, the meme-heavy B-movie, slithers back onto 4K and Blu-ray in a new limited release via Arrow Video.
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
This 1971 feature from the American International Pictures fun factory is a work at odds with itself. It wants to be campy, but it is never that funny. It wants to be a horror film, but poor direction dilutes the effectiveness of the chills. And while it succeeds as a Vincent Price vehicle, it fails to bring along the rest of the cast for the ride.
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You Have to See This! Showgirls (1995)
The nineties had a weird trend where studios took classic films and attempted to rework them in to contemporary trash films. Pamela Anderson starred in a “Casablanca” remake with “Barb Wire,” Vanilla Ice tried for his own “Rebel Without a Cause” remake with “Cool as Ice,” and oddly enough Paul Verhoeven aims for a remake of “All About Eve” with the cult Joe Esterhas anomaly known as “Showgirls.” Simultaneously lambasted and praised for being so unabashedly stupid and sleazy, Verhoeven attempts to hide a narrative better suited Skinemax than world wide release in theaters beneath thin art house veneers that fool no one.