Category: home video hovel

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Alexander Miller

Given the excessive level of nostalgia in our contemporary media, is it fussy or selective to make the distinction between whether or not it’s historical, cultural or personal? Perhaps that’s why Brighton Beach Memoirs feels so refreshing. With so many...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

April 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Kalifornia, by Tyler Smith

Is there anything worse than a stupid film that thinks it’s smart or, even worse, insightful? It can be a lethal combination for any work of art, but there’s something specific about film, which combines so many different stylistic elements,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 17, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Body Snatcher, by David Bax

Horror is the best genre of cinema. Not all my favorite movies are horror movies but it’s the category of film in which I have the highest success rate of enjoyment. I’m convinced that there are more people than you’d...

Craig Schroeder / home video hovel / movies / reviews

April 16, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Isolation and claustrophobia are about the hardest hitting one-two combination the horror genre can deliver. If not baked right into the premise (The Descent, The Thing, Night of the Living Dead), they’re often deployed to heighten a scene’s tension (the...

alexander miller / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Vengeance of She, by Alexander Miller

Oh, Hammer. One of the best, most relentlessly entertaining studios to have emerged in the conversation of world cinema. They dabbled in all genres; comedies, adventures, noir, thrillers, chillers, gothic sci-fi and, while their handsome, emblematic Victorian horror features in...

home video hovel / movies / reviews / west anthony

March 13, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Deadly Mantis, by West Anthony

Shout! Factory, home to many lovingly-crafted horror blu-rays under their Scream Factory imprint, is lately turning their attention to some of Universal’s goofier sci-fi/horror B-films of the 50s. There are few goofier than 1957’s The Deadly Mantis, in which a...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 13, 2019

Home Video Hovel: The Mole People, by David Bax

When a movie about an ancient race of humans and devolved mole people living miles underground begins with a lecture about the earth’s core from a professor of English, of all things, you may briefly assume that the film is...

alex daniel / home video hovel / movies / reviews

March 12, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, by Alex Daniel

The concept of the “After School Special” is so ubiquitous, most people have an idea of what an After School Special movie is like without ever really watching one. These deadly serious, hour-long cautionary tales centered on a controversial topic,...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

February 26, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Der Hund von Baskerville, by David Bax

Sherlock Holmes is so thoroughly English that he remains so on film even in movies produced in other countries. 1929’s German Der Hund von Baskerville, the final silent film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved character, maintains the famous sleuth’s...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

February 26, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Four Weddings and a Funeral, by David Bax

To be honest, I could have pretty easily written a review of Four Weddings and a Funeral without re-watching it. As one of my favorite movies of all time, I’ve revisited it often enough that I could recite from memory...

Category: home video hovel

Home Video Hovel: Brighton Beach Memoirs, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: Kalifornia, by Tyler Smith

Home Video Hovel: The Body Snatcher, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Warning Sign, by Craig Schroeder

Home Video Hovel: The Vengeance of She, by Alexander Miller

Home Video Hovel: The Deadly Mantis, by West Anthony

Home Video Hovel: The Mole People, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Sarah T. – Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic, by Alex Daniel

Home Video Hovel: Der Hund von Baskerville, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Four Weddings and a Funeral, by David Bax

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