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French director Jean Rollin is most known for his eerier, erotic and darkly surreal vampire films, such as The Shiver Of Vampires (1971), Lips Of Blood (1975), and Fasciation (1979). Though he did helm a few non-vampiric creations, and one of the most effective/ rewarding of these is The Grapes Of Death. It regards pesticides that are altering the residents of a small rural village- it blends body horror, zombies, folk horror with a keen sense of paranoia and unease throughout, with some moments of brutal gore. Here from Powerhouse, as part of their series of reissues of Rollin’s Back catalogue. Coming as either a UHD or Blu-ray- it features a new 4k scan of the film, a new commentary track, and a selection of new & old extras.
Killer on the Air (2025) is a psychological thriller directed by Haylie Duff (Danger in the Countryside) and produced by Hybrid and Cartel Pictures. The film follows Sarah Williams (Jessica Morris, One Life to Live), a closed-off psychologist turned late-night radio host who receives a chilling on-air call during her broadcast. A man claims that a murder will occur by the end of her shift, forcing Sarah into a race against time to uncover his identity and motive before it's too late.
Blood Bitch Baby is somewhat of a micro low-budget fever dream/ cheapy blood-tinged cinematic trip. It brings together a large-breasted/razor-toothed Elizabeth Bathory, a baby dinosaur demon, creepily awkward/ pushy characters, ranting/paranoid monologues, nudity, and throat ripping ‘n’ eye munching gore. The 2024 production is from long-running US zero-budget horror director Donald Farmer. Here from Blood Sick Productions is a Blu-ray release of the film.
From the early 1960’s, The Ghost is a prime example of Italian Gothic horror. It features a creepy grand house and mausoleum, an eerily building atmosphere & amping it up melodrama. As well as, ghoulish & bloody effects, and last but hardly least, we have Barbara Steel, on top form. Here from those prime cinematic ghouls, Severin- it’s a ltd four-disc release of the film. It takes in a UHD, two Blu-rays, and a CD. It features a new 4k print, four hours of special features, a 2019 doc about Italian Gothic horror, and a seventy-minute CD- bringing together three scores by the film's composer.
Despite its brutish and blunt name, this slasher directed by Marcel Walz is a stylishly photographed affair. As it opens emphatically on “August 19, 1976,” when we catch up with two young women trapped on a roadside who make the mistake of wandering down a mineshaft to an apparently sticky and flesh-ripping end….
Some of the world will look at the periodic table and see dull rows of squares and letters, but others will see inspiration, looking to pull some chaos from its well ordered matrix. Andrew Liles is one that wanted to tap into these elements and let them sing. In Neither Precious Nor Noble, he focuses on twenty different metals, turning them into sound sources, and working his magic on them to create a really cool and very listenable collection of tracks. As each element has different properties from the next, so do the pieces on Precious, with no overlying sound or motif, the elements are interpreted on their own, individually.
Here’s a wall noise split with a rather sacrilegious cover- featuring a perversely altered statue of the Virgin Mary. Featured are two thickly seared example of the wall form- one from Indiana-based Graveyard Witchcraft, and the other from South Carolina's Desecration Altar.
No Such Thing As Love For… is a new around two hour release from Liverpool’s Silver Dove. It offers up a blend/ mix of hazy guitar drone/ ambience, walled/ textured noise, and dreamy/ abstract sound making.
Non-Stop Negative Enforcement presents with two slabs of churning, grinding & weighty wall noise. If your familiar with the euro wall scene of say the 5 or so years, I’m sure you know Damien De Coene name- the Spanish based noise maker who has been behind such projects as, Charles Razeur, Verwelk, Renoffski, and more recently Dod Cathedral.
The Ugly is a late 90’s serail killer drama/ thriller from New Zealand. It regards a female psychologist going to assess a charming, but dangerous killer- who claims he’s been haunted by the sprints of those he’s murdered. The film has a decidedly jarring/ darting structure with some effective moments of building tension, shock, and a general unbalanced vibe. Here from Unearthed Films- those purveyors of extreme & troubling cinema- is a blu ray release of the picture. It takes in a new 4k scan, new commentary track, and a few other extras.
From the late 80’s Innerspace is entertaining/ largely undated blend of sci-fi, physical comedy, romance and action. It regards a washed-up test pilot (Dennis Quiad), getting involved in a secret miniaturization experiment- but instead of been injected into the planned rabbit, he gets shot inside bumbling hypochondriac (Martin Short). Here from Arrow Video, both in the UK and Stateside, is a new either UHD or Blu Ray release of the film. It features a 4k scan, new commentary track, and blend of new/ archive.
Jérôme Bouve & Delphine Dora present an album of thoughtfully yearning magickal drone, encircled with field recordings, for their first collaboration, this album entitled Vents d’aether, released on Hallow Ground. The album has a twenty-minute opening track, titled after the album, followed by a series of shorter pieces.
This 2-disc DVD collection from FilmLandia and Aggregate Media features two documentary films looking at the VHS phenomenon that swept across the planet in the 1980s. Both films are a nostalgic trip into the golden age of VHS, however we are treated to a lot of chat and discussion about how VHS tapes continue to live on in the horror and exploitation underground. The two documentaries featured on this set are VHS Lives!: A Shlokumentary, and VHS Lives 2: Undead Format, both directed by Tony Newton (Virus of the Dead, Plague of the Dead and Grindsploitation).
Symphonies is a five CD boxset collecting together the output of French Prog Rock Band Clearlight- whose sound brought in elements of symphonic rock, space rock, jazz fusion, and proto new-age music. Most of the albums come from the 70’s, though the last album is from the 2010’s.
Theta Seven is the latest, and seemingly last album from Sheffield’s genre blenders Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere. The eleven track affair finds eight piece once again letting go of the normal musical genre restraints, to create a wonderful drifting and flowing experience.
Langeleik is a collaboration between two respected and revered pedal-steel players- Norway’s Geir Sundstøl and London-based Joe Harvey-Whyte. The resulting nine track album nicely slips from the mellow, into the trippy/ vaguely groovy, onto the moody/ dramatic.
From South Carolina’s No Fun HNW here is a just shy of half an hours’ worth of chopping static & baying bass toned walled noise. It’s wall craft that managers to sit in both crudity and almost roughshod groove.
Here’s a wall noise split bringing together Czechia’s RDKPL, and Portland’s Hana Haruna. Each project severs up two tracks, running ten mins a picec- with the former presenting us with dense/ malfunction ‘walls’. And the latter more layered/ nuanced take on the genre.
Diathermy II is a decidedly entrancing slice of walled noise- blending soothing bass purrs, skittering-yet mellow static grain rubs, and a generally comfy feel. This is digital release takes in a single thirty two minute track from this Oregon-based project, which started last year.
The Dancing Hawk is a Polish rags-to-riches drama, told in a surreal, arty, and at times troubling manner. The film utilises some wonderful unbalancing/creative camera work, a general keen sense of unpredictability, and a distinctly skewed take on storytelling. It follows the life of a country boy, who works his way up the corporate ladder- trying to keep connected with his roots, but also focusing on what’s best for him. Here from Radiance Films is a new Blu-ray release of the film. It takes in a 4k scan of the picture, a new interview, and a selection of a few shorts by the director
Highway To Hell is a quirky, at times downright darkly wacky take on the road movie form. This early 90’s film blends fantasy, horror, action and dark satire- it regards a late teenage pizza delivery driver, eloping with his girlfriend to LA. But on the way, they literally ride into hell.Here from Transmission, Radiance Films' sublabel, is a new Blu-ray of this seen/ known film. With a new HD scan, two new commentary tracks- with a selection of old & new archive extras.
From the early 2000’s Decadent Evil sits at the sleazier and bloody end of Charles Bands huge filmography. It brings together bloody throat rippings, darkly glamours female vamps, randy Homunculus, and little person vampire hunter played by Phil Fondacaro (Troll, Ghoulies II, Willow). Here from Full Moon Features is a Blu Ray release of the film.
Immersing himself in the scoring of film and theater, Kreng has gone over a decade without releasing a personal album, but has come back to Miasmah to drop his latest, Wormhole. His time spent building cinematic tension and atmosphere is carried over wholesale for this work, as the album is rich with feeling, texture, and storytelling, the music guiding the listener on an unexpected and gorgeous journey. Dramatic and daring, Wormhole provides vivid, sonic imagery and a road map for the listener to take an interstellar trip into the unknown, as well as into the inner depths of their own psyche.
Processed into near-unrecognizable passages of ringng and breath, the saxophone on Alex Zhang Hungtai‘s Dras is unlike any I’ve heard. While the recordings for Dras were made in 2019, it’s clear that a great deal of planning and curating went into the progression and drift of this album as it is now, which moves from strangulated bleats to wide-open expanses into the unknown. The title track opens with what sounds like a phalanx of ring mods and flangers, bellowing from somewhere deep beneath an oceanic trench. The metal chambers of the saxophone have never sounded quite so metallic!