Schlock-Wire: Severin Films Launches Its Official Webstore
Sep 3rd
Let’s face it: the era of the brick-and-mortar stores providing cult movie fans with what they need is dead and gone. Online is the way to go. Not only is there a wealth of quality retailers on the internet, you can also cut out the middle man and buy directly from the companies through their More >
THE RED SHIRT CHRONICLES: PART 2 — Red Shirt Begins
Sep 3rd
The second installment of Schlockmania’s interview series with Michael Felsher talks about his first experience producing a featurette, the factors that led him to form his own DVD supplement production company, Red Shirt Pictures, and discussions of some of the early Red Shirt Pictures projects. Night Of The Demons, Effects and the infamous Nail Gun More >
Schlock-Wire: Full Details For Shout! Factory’s Release of MST3K Vol. XIX
Sep 2nd
MSTies need to prepare space in their collections for another mega-disc set because Shout! Factory is released the nineteenth volume of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 collections in November. It will feature four classic episodes of this beloved film-parody series that have never been released on video before — Robot Monster, Bride Of The Monster, More >
WITHOUT WARNING: It Came From Beyond… To Stalk & Slash
Sep 2nd
After the one-two punch of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Star Wars, filmmakers looking for a commercially exploitable hook came down with a big case of “space fever.” Those on the low-budget end of the spectrum didn’t have the resources for tricky visual effects or elaborate spaceship models but still managed to find More >
Schlock-Wire: NOT OF THE EARTH, THE TERROR WITHIN and DEAD SPACE All Coming To DVD From Shout Factory
Sep 1st
Alien invaders are the theme for an upcoming barrage of releases from Shout! Factory’s Roger Corman Cult Classics line. The discs in question are a special edition of Not Of This Earth, the 1988 Jim Wynorski version with Traci Lords in first post-porn role, and a two-for-one pairing of The Terror Within and Dead Space More >
Infected By The ZOMBIE RABBIT Award
Sep 1st
So it looks like TheDivemistress, blogger and friend of Schlockmania, gave Your Humble Reviewer his first blogging award, a little something called “The Zombie Rabbit Award,” at her blog Zombots. Said award was born at the iZombie blog (read more here) and The Divemistress’s award post can be found here. These things work on a More >
PHILLY RE-GROOVED: The Mixmaster Revisits His Roots, With Plenty Of Grit & Gloss
Aug 31st
To some music fans, remix is a dirty word. That is easy to understand if one thinks of modern approach to remixing. A lot of today’s remixers do it the wrong way, throwing out much of a song’s instrumentation and grafting on gratuitous new production with a Frankenstein-ian lack of sensitivity towards the original recording. More >
PIRANHA 3D: Cynical Hackwork Is Deadlier Than A School Of Killer Fish
Aug 30th
There are few things more painful than sitting through a bad remake, a rule that doubles in strength when it is a bad horror remake — and Piranha 3D is one of the most dazzling failures in the recent “horror remake” sweepstakes. It’s devoid of the genre savvy, the playful sense of wit and the More >
Schlock-Wire: Full Details On Shout! Factory’s SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE Collection 2-DVD Set
Aug 29th
Slasher movie fans will have a reason to rejoice this Halloween with the new Slumber Party Massacre Collection from Shout! Factory. This series is particularly unique in slasher-flick history because it’s the only where each film was written and directed by women. This 2-disc set, another entry in the company’s ongoing “Roger Corman Cult Classics” More >
Schlock-Wire: Get Ready For IMPOSSIBLY FUNKY’s Fall Book Release Tour
Aug 27th
Big news for schlock-loving bibliophiles: Mike White is not only releasing Impossibly Funky, his updated/expanded best of Cashiers Du Cinemart compilation, this fall — he’s taking it on the road! White has assembled an impressive itinerary of promotional appearances that extends from mid-September to the beginning of December to spread the good word about his More >
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