We welcome comments
or corrections, but don’t have the time to give you up to date information
about how to find tapes, DVDs or whatever new more expensive format they’ll
be forcing on us soon. Contact our advertisers and/or do web site searches
if you want to find certain titles. Release companies are given for most
tapes. Abreviations often used include SW (SomethingWeird) and VSOM (Video
Search of Miami). We DO NOT sell these tapes. Some of them were unavailable
or out of print when the reviews were written. Some have gone out of print
since. Others that were very hard to find several years ago are now easy
to buy or rent.
I review many of these movies so that you don’t have to waste your
valuable time and money. You’ll find titles here (good and bad)
not reviewed on any other movie web sites – including the major
sites with the most contributors and corporate backing. Most of these
titles were sent to PV for reviewing. They were sent by large and small
video companies (or PR firms), producers and directors, and PV advertisers,
fans and supporters. Some were seen on TV. I don’t know who else
reviews so many real non Hollywood, low budget indy releases. Some used
tapes were sent to us by PV readers to help stock our local rental store
and I decided to watch and review them. We used to have an insider at
Blockbuster headquarters, who frequently sent us boxes of advance review
tapes from many companies. Naturally after many years of top notch service,
he was “laid off” (fired) - just before Christmas. What do
you expect from a cynical old price fixing multi - billionaire who also
owns MTV? The only major company that currently sends us review tapes
is Fox. The thought of Rupert Murdoch and his “fair and unbiased’
Fox News beaming all over the world makes me shudder – but Fox really
knows how to promote itself.
If you wonder why certain classic, cult or famous movies are not reviewed
here, it’s probably because I covered them already in books. Most
of the reviews first published in PV issues #1 through #20 (plus many
more) are in THE PSYCHOTRONIC VIDEO GUIDE (St. Martins, ‘96). Reviews
of many 1930s through early 1980s movies are in THE PSYCHOTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF FILM (Ballantine, 1983) which was in print for nearly 20 (!) years.
If you wonder why DVD extras are not mentioned, it’s because I didn’t
buy a DVD player until late 2002 and only then because many companies
had stopped making VHS screeners. I rarely care about alternate versions,
director’s commentary and outtakes anyway. Life is too short to
spend extra hours on some stupid movie – when I could be watching
some other stupid movie!
Review copies or used copies of titles (new or old) are always welcome
from any source.
Send them and reviews will appear here eventually.
Thanks to everyone who sent in tapes and to Akira Fitton, John Morton,
Frank Uhle, and Steve Brigati for helping to make this section possible.
As Ernie (Ghoulardi) Anderson used to say: “Stay Sick!” and
“The whole world is a purple knif.”
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