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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are unlocking the vault on an overlooked European psychological thriller that turns the human mind into the ultimate locked-room mystery. I’m talking about Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2008 French neo-noir, Cortex, starring French cinema icon André Dussollier. Think The Father meets Memento, set inside the sterile, institutional walls of One…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are putting a late-era, modernized indie horror artifact onto the slab. I’m talking about John Carl Buechler’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2006), starring the legendary Tony Todd in the dual role of Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde. I was genuinely excited when I…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are putting a glossy, bruised, and deeply prophetic 1987 drama onto the slab. I’m talking about Marek Kanievska’s Less Than Zero (1987), loosely based on Bret Easton Ellis’s groundbreaking 1985 debut novel. I recently pulled this out of a thrift haul, dusted off the plastic, and sat down…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are laying a dark, quiet, and deeply misunderstood entry from the turn of the century onto the slab. I’m talking about Chuck Parello’s Ed Gein (2000) (also released internationally under the title In the Light of the Moon). For decades, three of my absolute favorite movies—films I have…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are putting our boots on the ground of a quietly devastating 1970s cultural landmark that currently has a target on its back from the corporate streaming giants. I’ve just finished an exhaustive three-way rewatch of Hal Ashby’s “Coming Home” (1978). I watched it on the out-of-print 2002 MGM…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are boarding a pirate ship and heading straight for the second star to the right. We’re sliding a very unique, out-of-print family treasure into the player: the 2000 A&E televised musical version of “Peter Pan”, starring the legendary, Olympic-gymnast-turned-Broadway-icon Cathy Rigby. Before we even look at the stage…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are digging up a completely obscure, direct-to-DVD Southern Gothic noir from 2003 called “Wicked Pursuits”. This is a true micro-budget, DIY operation written, directed, and produced by a guy named Timothy Taylor. The internet has basically erased this movie—its digital footprint is practically zero, and its IMDb page…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are cracking open a case file from the year 2002—a time when premium basic cable was the undisputed king of the mid-budget, star-studded suspense flick. We’re spinning a forgotten TNT original called “Framed”. I’ll be honest going into this one: I half-expected a generic, paint-by-numbers procedural. But by…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are strapping on our six-shooters and diving into a subgenre that I genuinely want to love: the Horror-Western. The problem? I can’t think of a single, genuinely good one I’ve ever seen. And after spinning the rare DVD for today’s flick—2006’s “After Sundown” (sometimes mistaken as After Sunset)—I’m…
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Welcome back to the RetrOasis. Today, we are putting a massive, clunky, 1990 experiment on the slab. A movie I walked away from completely disappointed thirty-six years ago, and after a fresh rewatch on the physical player… yep. Same reaction. I’m talking about Roger Corman’s “Frankenstein Unbound” (1990). Look, the graphic above tells you everything…
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