Road Rash Reviews

Encounter of the Spooky Kind [GUI DA GUI] (Eureka Classics) Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 103 mins | 1980

4 Star
Ghosts, Ghouls and Infidelity.
From actor/director Sammo Hung (Three Films With Sammo Hung, Wheels on Meals, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, The Fate of Lee Khan, Jackie Chan’s PROJECT A & PROJECT A PART II) and the producer of the jiangshi film genre (The jiangshi is a corpse reanimated by a Taoist priest) that he created along with writer…more

PTU (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 88 mins | 2003

4 Star
One Cop, One Gun, One Deadly Night.
Seasoned director Johnnie To (Election, Election 2, Mad Detective, Exiled) brings a Hong Kong tale of how one little mistake can easily start a string of events that totally change the participants lives forever, in this cop loses his gun story Hong Kong style.
PTU (Police Tactical Unit) are a division connected to the…more

The Hands of Orlac Review ****-

Cert PG | 93 mins | 1924

4 stars of brilliantly macabre Austrian silent story-telling.
The Hands of Orlac is a black and white silent film directed by master of German Expressionism, Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). It is based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac by visionary body horror author Maurice Renard (The Blue Peril) and was originally released in 1924.
It is presented here on Blu-ray…more

Lake Mungo Standard Edition Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 15 | 87 mins | 2008

4 star goose-bump inducing Australian horror chiller.
Lake Mungo is an Australian psychological horror film originally released in 2008. It is written and directed by Joel Anderson and remains to this day his only feature film. It’s as if he emerged to produce one magnificent film and then disappeared back into the shadows along with his characters.
Filmed on a low budget,…more

SHOCK WAVE: HONG KONG DESTRUCTION Review ****-

Cert 15 | 121 mins | 2020

4 Star
Plenty of Bang for Your Bucks.
From writer director Herman Yau (Shock Wave, Turning Point, Turning Point 2) comes this year’s blockbuster thriller as he teams up once again with writer Erica Li ( Ip Man: The Final Fight) to bring us a stand-alone sequel in name only, set in Hong Kong and using the Police Explosive Ordinance Bureau as…more

Over The Edge Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 18 | 95 mins | 1979

4 Star
Dirt Bikes, Guns and Anarchy.
Welcome to the isolated planned community of New Granada, east of Denver, Colorado, where you see the wasteland that is the only thing to entertain the youth of New Granada. Over the Edge is based on the true life experiences of the youth of the late 1970’s. Wherever you were based this was the situation…more

Time and Tide Blu-ray Review ****-

Cert 18 | 114 mins | 2000

4 Star
Brutal Death Race, Oh and Babies.
Classic Martial Arts filmmaker, writer, director and Producer Hark Tsui (Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, Once Upon A Time In China Trilogy, Iron Monkey, The Taking of Tiger Mountain) comes to the twenty-first century with this Hong Kong and South American crime fiction. Where young men have to find their place in society…more

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