This month Kim Newman looks through the latest straight to DVD releases, with this month looking at a retro selection of oddities.
One the highlights from his selection this month is the 80’s flick ‘Night of the Comet’, involving valley girl, Catherine Mary Stewart, fighting off zombies and mad scientists between shopping trips to the mall. The cover just set’s the film up perfectly, zombies, Uzi’s and shopping what more could a girl want?
Also in his pick from the 80’s comes the three futuristic film set in the 1990s from Enzo G. Castellari: The Bronx Warriors, Escape From The Bronx and The New Barbarians, which feature the acting abilities of Vic Marrow and Fred Williamson.
Kim Newman’s Dungeon Breakout film for February is the Hammer film, The Lost Continent, based on the novel by Dennis Wheatley. The story is that of cargo ship the goes missing the fog and finds the ‘Lost Continent’ and island full of giant crabs and killer weeds and the Spanish Inquisition?
For the full Video Dungeon review get February’s copy of Empire magazine.
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1 March 6th, 2010 6:39 amShelton Heusinkveld
This blog is great. How did you come up witht he idea?
2 March 6th, 2010 1:08 pmRedKoala
Love the look of your webiste, great job
3 October 23rd, 2010 10:05 pmLarry Di Giovanni
This is a wonderful website. Growing up in Athens, Ohio, I lived in a college town where the owner of the former Athena Movie Theater downtown on Court Street (who used to live across the street as our neighbor, I believe his name was Ben Geary) would show free movies some afternoons. Those free movies were a hit with kids like me, and for parents who received a free babysitter for a few hrs so they could shop downtown!
Anyway, I remember one of those free moving showings being about people on a cargo ship lost in the fog, and going to a ship graveyard where there were pirates, weird hideous creatures, including some kind of creature that was like a “waiting mouth” to swallow those forced to fall into it … the movie must have been ‘The Lost Continent’ – how can I buy a copy of it?
4 October 25th, 2010 7:20 amAdam Akers
It is currently available at amazon.com