In many ways, Michael Morrissey’s debut feature BOY WONDER (on DVD today from Inception Media Group) shares plenty with the rash of ’70s and ’80s vigilante films by the likes of William Lustig, Michael Winner, Abel Ferrara and Paul Schrader, which many of us hold dear. Mind you, it’s not on the level. In fact, it’s nowhere near, but it veers much closer to those titles than recent fare like KICK-ASS, which BOY WONDER’s marketing and even special-feature discussions are trying to ride the coattails of.

THE DISEMBODIED (1957) is one of two Allison Hayes-starring films from Allied Artists (the other is THE HYPNOTIC EYE) available via the Warner Archive Collection, the manufactured-on-demand initiative launched last year. Anyone familiar with the busty bombshell already knows the selling point of this film—and the stock, repetitious plot involving voodoo-induced spirit migration is not it.

If you don’t love Ozploitation then there is something very wrong with you.  I mean how can you not love the beautiful use of desert wasteland?  How could you not fall in love with the grit, grime, and sweat of all those darling outback underworld characters?  Let’s face it, when the Australian New Wave hit it hit hard and it hit with a mighty fury.  And 1984’s RAZORBACK rode the crest of that wave.  

It’s everything about 80’s horror that we’ve all come to love.  It’s beautifully shot, back when everything was shot on film, and so damn cheesy with an innocent bit of T&A. From director William Fruet (FRIDAY THE 13th: THE SERIES, GOOSEBUMPS), comes the 1986 horror classic KILLER PARTY.

Sneaky, charming, funny and disturbing, RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE will not be played vicariously in the background while we decorate the tree this year. Instead, I’ll be treating this Finnish attraction (on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD combo from Oscilloscope Laboratories) like a fine bottle of port that should only be opened when friends are gathered around the glowing warmth of the tree once it’s fully decorated…and the lights are all off…and my friend Kevin, who is terrified of scary-Santa imagery, is stuck here due to unsafe driving conditions.

With WRONG TURN 4: BLOODY BEGINNINGS (on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD combo from Fox Home Entertainment), Declan O’Brien graduates up from director—the post he served on WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD—to wear the writer’s hat as well. A prequel set long before the first WRONG TURN film, this fourth entry starts out in 1974, with the hillbilly mutant brothers Three Finger, One Eye, and Saw Tooth—ages 8, 9 and 10 respectively—interred as patients in a sanitorium. As is to be expected, the patients escape and overwhelm the staff in particularly gruesome fashion.

We all know the controversy: people have walked out of the screenings, exhibitors have been arrested, it’s been banned in countless areas, and even Netflix has refused to be associated with this film. It took the cast iron balls of the folks at Invincible Pictures to properly release A SERBIAN FILM and give it the respect it deserves. It’s a good movie, and I’ll tell you why shortly, but I must preface my praise with this – you probably shouldn’t watch this film. It is everything you think it is and sometimes it’s a little bit worse than you think it might be. But, like myself, I know horror fans are driven and compelled to absorb the unknown and controversial. Simply because I have told you not to watch this film means most of you are going to finish this review and run at breakneck speed to watch A SERBIAN FILM. But you have been warned. This film is incredibly disturbing…