The gang over at Film Masters, the restoration and distribution company founded in 2023, just can’t get enough of Roger Corman. In their little-more-than-a-year-plus of existence, they’ve already exhumed his Beast from Haunted Cave (paired with Ski Troop Attack), The Terror (paired with Little Shop of Horrors), and The Devil’s Partner (paired with Creature from […] More
… With Ski Troop Attack in Its Snowy Tow
Halloween approaches—it probably has been so since Labor Day or earlier to judge from my neighbors’ elaborately decorated yards—and with it come all sorts of ghouls and goblins. Among them is the much feared, oft-maligned, and rarely seen Beast from Haunted Cave, the titular creature of Roger Corman’s 1959 cult classic, restored and repackaged in a […] More
For its first special edition physical media release of 2025, Film Masters returns to its favorite subject: Roger Corman, king of pop cinema, and here the very first film he ever produced, more than seven decades ago: Monster from the Ocean Floor. Inspired by a news story about some newfangled undersea gadgetry, the film brings […] More
Once again this month, practically like clockwork, Film Masters, the vintage film restoration and distribution company founded in 2023, unveils a new low-budget treasure from the hoary past in the Blu-ray and DVD restoration of Roger Corman’s The Devil’s Partner (1961), a film that by at least one measure was well more than a decade […] More
Film Masters, the consortium that began producing physical media earlier this year, continues attention to the restoration and preservation of the work of low-budget auteur Roger Corman with its newest release. Top-billed is the 60th-anniversary edition of The Terror (1963), his gothic horror pitting Jack Nicholson against a formidable adversary in Boris Karloff, packaged together […] More
There were just too many independent films from the ‘90s I wanted to cover after publishing my list from last month, so here are five more overlooked indie gems from that era that deserve some of the spotlight. If you’re keeping track, the directors we’ve covered so far include Hal Hartley, Philip Ridley, Julie Dash, […] More
Film Masters, the preservation and restoration company founded in 2023, continues their remastering and repackaging of tales from cinema’s crypts this month, just in time for Halloween, with a double feature of two German krimi films, both starring the infamous Klaus Kinski, and both of them looking spectacular. The two films—1967’s Creature With the Blue […] More
“Lovecraftian Horror” or the broader label of “Cosmic Horror” is a subgenre of horror and science fiction that traces back primarily to author Howard Philips Lovecraft. Lovecraft is its most famous originator and his stories offer examples of the genre in its most distilled form. Perhaps this quote from Lovecraft’s “The Picture in the House” […] More
If you are not familiar with the impressively prolific oeuvre of director Bert I. Gordon, Film Masters, the restoration and distribution company formed last year, pays tribute to his micro-budget B-movie glory with their Blu-ray and DVD special edition release of Tormented (1960). It’s a film perfectly representative of Gordon’s output, a low-budget psycho-schlock quasi-horror […] More
Feature Presentations: Episode 100
Welcome to this column dedicated to my appreciation of physical media supplements called Feature Presentations. The goal of this column is not to say whether a film is good or bad and worth picking up or not- I would like to highlight the discs that go the extra mile and provide film fans with enough […] More
Feature Presentations: Episode 85
Welcome to this column dedicated to my appreciation of physical media supplements called: Feature Presentations. The goal of this column is not to say whether a film is good or bad and worth picking up or not—I would like to highlight the discs that go the extra mile and provide film fans with enough tasty […] More
Feature Presentations: Episode 64
Welcome to my column dedicated to the appreciation of physical media supplements called: Feature Presentations. The goal of this column is not to say whether a film is good or bad and worth picking up or not—I would like to highlight the discs that go the extra mile and provide film fans with enough tasty […] More
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