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The folks at Troma have spent fifty years slinging some of the dirtiest, grossest, and most unhinged cinema in North America. You generally know what you’re getting when Lloyd Kaufman attaches his name to something: cheap prosthetic guts, aggressive camp, and a complete refusal to take anything seriously. Every now and then, though, a Troma release pops up that actually cares about its characters amidst the buckets of fake blood. Sweet Meats , directed by and starring Ricky Glore, is one of those rare surprises. It’s a low-budget, country-music horror comedy that essentially takes the core premise of Sweeney Todd or Motel Hell and drags it through a greasy roadside diner in Kentucky. Troma just dropped the physical release on Blu-ray, and while the movie itself runs a little long at a hundred minutes, the package as a whole is a surprisingly charming love letter to DIY filmmaking. The setup is delightfully straightforward. Bobby Sweet (Ricky Glore) is a delusional, wannabe country si...

Look, we all know what Star Trek is at this point. It is baked so deeply into pop culture that even people who have never watched a single full episode can quote "Beam me up, Scotty" or do the Vulcan nerve pinch. But going back and actually watching 1960s Star Trek from start to finish on Blu-ray is a weirdly grounding experience. It is easy to forget that before it became a multi-billion-dollar franchise with dozens of spin-offs and endless corporate branding, it was just a broke television show trying to survive on NBC while getting shuffled around bad time slots. The entire original series is now available to own on Blu-ray, and honestly, holding the whole thing in one hand feels kind of strange given how huge the legacy is. The physical packaging itself is surprisingly clean and simple. They did not bloat it with unnecessary plastic or bulky, awkward digibooks that end up getting crushed on your shelf. It is a sleek set that stores all three seasons neatly without taking ...

Paramount dumped André Øvredal’s Passenger into theaters back in May with almost zero marketing pushing it, mostly because they were banking on bigger summer tentpoles to carry the box office. That usually means a studio knows they have a stink bomb on their hands, but Passenger isn't a bad movie at all. It’s actually a mean, incredibly lean 94-minute ghost story that knows exactly what it wants to do and doesn't waste time trying to be anything else. If you missed its brief theatrical run, this disc is easily the best way to catch up on one of the most underappreciated horror flicks of the year. The setup is pretty simple. Tyler (Jacob Scipio) and Maddie (Lou Llobell) are a young couple six weeks into their grand "van life" adventure. They traded in their cramped New York lives to live out of a customized camper van, driving across the country and posting about it. But right from the opening stretch, you can tell the romanticized illusion of road life is already we...

Taking on a sequel to Stuart Gordon’s 1985 classic was always going to be an awful, thankless job. The original Re-Animator was a complete accident of late-80s genre filmmaking: mean, insanely fast, hilarious, and dripping with enough fake blood to rust an engine block. When producer Brian Yuzna decided to direct the 1990 follow-up himself, he didn't even bother trying to copy Gordon’s tight pacing or pitch-black comedic beats. He just dragged the whole thing sideways into raw, trashy, midnight-movie territory. The result is a total mess of a narrative, but it happens to be a ridiculously fun mess. The story picks up eight months after the Miskatonic University disaster. Somehow, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) and Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) haven't lost their medical licenses. Instead, they're hiding out as volunteer doctors dodging mortar shells in a Peruvian civil war zone. It's an absurd opening, but it gets West right back to his favorite pastime. He isn't satisfi...

The nightmare is finally reaching its endgame. Lionsgate is releasing The Strangers: Chapter 3 on 4K and digital platforms on October 13, 2026, bringing the brutal slasher trilogy to its ultimate conclusion just in time for Halloween streaming marathons. Renny Harlin is back in the director's chair for this final installment, clocking in at a lean 91 minutes. Madelaine Petsch returns once more as Maya, who also picks up a producer credit this time around. After surviving two whole movies worth of relentless stalking, Maya is taking one last stand against the iconic masked killers in what promises to be a bloody reckoning. Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath round out the returning cast, though the main draw here is seeing whether Maya actually gets her revenge or becomes another statistic. Writers Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland stick to the foundation laid out by original creator Bryan Bertino, keeping the focus strictly on brutal, full-circle survival horror. Unsurprisingly, the film...

If you thought Maya was finally in the clear after surviving the terrifying ordeal in the first entry, think again. The creepy masked killers are back, and they do not like leaving unfinished business. Lionsgate is bringing The Strangers: Chapter 2 to 4K and digital platforms on October 13, 2026, making it an easy pick for your spooky season movie night. Directed by Renny Harlin, this 98-minute sequel picks up right where things left off. Madelaine Petsch returns as Maya, who is now recovering from her previous encounter only to find out she is still very much on the hit list. Gabriel Basso and Ema Horvath join the chaos this time around, but let us be honest: most people are tuning in to see how long anyone can actually stay alive against three silent psychopaths. Scriptwriters Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland stick closely to the original mythology built by Bryan Bertino. There are no sudden supernatural twists or complicated origin stories here. It is just raw, senseless, relentles...

If you spent any significant portion of your youth wandering the aisles of a blocky local video store on a Friday night, you know the exact vibe of Past Midnight . You’re looking at the box art: Rutger Hauer looking brooding and mysterious, Natasha Richardson looking concerned yet determined, and a trashy neon title tag promising nineties erotic-thriller thrills. Alliance Entertainment’s decision to drop this obscure 1991 thriller into their retro VHS line is a stroke of pure nostalgia marketing, and to be honest, it works. The physical release itself comes in one of those slipcovers designed to look like an old-school worn cassette case, complete with fake distress marks along the spine and a fake rental sticker on the back. Inside, it’s a standard Blu-ray disc, but make no mistake: this is as bare-bones as it gets. You get the movie, a main menu that looks like a static image captured off a CRT television, and zero special features. No commentary tracks, no retrospective interviews, ...

When Steven Spielberg returns to sci-fi, people usually expect wide-eyed kid protagonists, glowing bikes, or massive CGI warships obliterating city blocks. Disclosure Day isn't really that. It's much moodier, far more paranoid, and grounded in the bureaucratic messiness of how the actual government would react if aliens finally verified they exist. The movie skips the grand white house lawn announcements and spends its time in dimly lit briefing rooms, secure server facilities, and muddy Midwest backroads. It's a film about secrets, institutional panic, and human stubbornness. Now that Universal has dropped the 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, we can take a proper look at how this slow-burn thriller holds up at home, both as a piece of filmmaking and as a technical presentation. The plot follows Dr. Maya Vance, played with a brilliant, exhausted intensity by Emily Blunt. Vance is a mid-level analyst working for a defense contractor who stumbles across an encrypted vault of telemetry da...

Welcome back to the Following Films Podcast. On today’s episode, I’m talking with VFX supervisors Paul Lambert and Mag Sarnowska about their work on Project Hail Mary . The film just hit home video, so you can pick it up right now on 4K Blu-ray, DVD, or digital. Honestly, it’s easily one of the best movies to come out all year, so if you haven't seen it yet, you need to change that. For those unfamiliar, the movie follows Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher who wakes up alone on a spaceship with zero memory of who he is or how he got there. As his memory slowly comes back, he realizes he’s humanity's last hope to stop an extinction-level threat that's consuming the sun. He has to rely on pure science, trial and error, and an unexpected partnership with an alien engineer named Rocky to figure out a way to save Earth. What makes the film work so well—and why talking to Paul and Mag was so great—is how it grounds all this massive visual scale in practical problem-sol...