Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre still cuts the competition to the bone.
Tobe Hooper’s admirers will want to pick up this 4K release for the robust transfer alone.
I’m Dangerous Tonight has looks to kill on Kino Lorber’s Blu-ray.
Shout! has refurbished this camp dud with a beautiful and informative new home-video release.
A strange case of Lifeforce-lite that will probably only play to fans of weirdly loopy, inadvertently resonant monster-movie extravaganzas.
It still cuts the competition to the bone.
A better-than-average horror anthology from two of horror’s reigning masters, Body Bags benefits considerably from an HD upgrade that’s been fleshed out with some salient supplements by Shout! Factory.
All of them have earned their right to be here, either by standing on the shoulders of giants or wildly impaling creatures of the night.
One expects the requisite allusions to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but an homage to the best scene in Melvin and Howard comes as something of a shock.
If you think you’ve got it rough in the love department, try dating a gorgeous space-vampire hell-bent on harvesting your planet’s souls.
No, Poltergeist III doesn’t make any sense, but it reaps the rewards left by the legacy-dashing second film’s sins.
Midnight Movie has a surprisingly ambitious structure, as Hooper is aiming for the novelistic equivalent of the vérité approach that was so effective in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
It wouldn’t be nearly as effective a film if one weren’t attuned to the hidden diametric pull between various fissuring elements.
The image here will have you gazing into the light.
With an enviable, well-stocked cast of character thespians and a carefully dilapidated motel set, Eaten Alive is all ingredients, no recipe.
Eaten Alive doesn’t fuck with your head like Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.
Tobe Hooper’s latest is not unlike an episode of Melrose Place as imagined by Lucio Fulci.
What separates the film from its predecessors is its anarchic, cynical hysteria—its bizarre and dark-as-hell gallows humor.