De Palma’s exquisitely directed slasher gets its finest home video release to date.
This gnarly, terrifying, daring horror film receives a beautiful transfer and a solid collection of extras.
The film’s fanatics won’t need to sell their souls for this fantastic dual-format release, not even for “The Hell of It.”
Twilight Time unleashes The Fury onto Blu-ray with a moderately successful upgrade in A/V quality and a paucity of extras.
One of the finest Cinemascope films of recent years is presented in a mostly excellent anamorphic transfer.
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.
Brian De Palma eschews the Classics Illustrated mannerisms of L.A. Confidential in his adaptation of James Ellroy’s novel.
Only the film’s audience, too caught up in the euphoria of the show, remain oblivious to the real horrors on display.
The Fury is the most crucial movie of all De Palma’s movies.
The film’s funk of hedonism is only as pungent as a perfume sample in a department store catalogue ad.
The film is a bifurcated recording of what was one of the New York avant-garde theater world’s more controversial productions.
Wedding Party is a spunky freshman effort, but Brian De Palma undoubtedly felt more comfortable in the realm of the wryly sophomoric.
One is almost tempted to entertain De Palma detractors’ arguments that his exploitation of Hitchcock tropes is nothing but a dead end.