Author Archive for Matthew Poirier
Matt is the proprietor of The Direct to Video Connoisseur. Follow him on twitter @dtvconnoisseur
“She” (1982)
I want to say I’ve seen She before, but that would’ve been in the early 90s, and, to be honest, it could’ve been any Sandahl Bergman flick, I just don’t remember. Â Also, I think I saw it on a local broadcast channel, meaning a lot of the violence would’ve been scrubbed out. Â Either way, I [...]
“Switchblade Sisters” aka “The Jezebels” (1975)
I had no idea when I saw this on Watch Instantly that it was another flick from Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder pictures, especially considering my last review for Couch Cutter was Detroit 9000.  While it might seem like I’m going through the whole Rolling Thunder catalog, it was actually another auteur, Albert Pyun, that made me seek [...]
“Detroit 9000″ (1973)
I first saw this movie in high school when I bought it on VHS and watched it with some buddies. Â Back then we had this thing about anything 70s. Â We weren’t obsessed or anything, it was more like we found the whole thing– the music, the clothes, the slang– hilarious. Â This movie definitely hit the [...]
“New Gladiators” (1984)
I’d been meaning to check this one out for a while, but with Netflix looking to dump it from Watch Instantly, I figured I’d better do it now before I miss my chance. New Gladiators (I guerrieri dell’anno 2072 for the purists) takes place in the late 21st century, in a time when two TV [...]
“Dracula A.D.” (1972)
My main beef with George Lucas is the fact that he didn’t have more Christopher Lee in his three newer Star Wars films. Â The first one, for instance, should’ve just been the beginning, the Darth Maul fight, then an hour of Christopher Lee as Count Dooku fighting his evil werewolf sister. Â Am I wrong in [...]
“She-Devils on Wheels” (1968)
I was paging through the offerings on Netflix Watch Instantly, and came across She-Devils on Wheels. Â I was intrigued to see what Herschell Gordon Lewis could do with the biker genre, and when I saw how great the trailer was, I knew I had to give it a look. She-Devils on Wheels follows a gang [...]
“The Savage Seven” (1968)
A few months back I looked at a movie called Hell Ride for the Direct to Video Connoisseur, a biker flick from 2008 produced by Quentin Tarentino and directed by Larry Bishop. Â It didn’t work for me, and a big reason why was that it was too mired in its own plot, something I seldom [...]
Savage! (1973)
The late great Cirio H. Santiago is a director I’ve become very familiar with through his 80s and 90s Direct to Video action flicks starring people like Robert Patrick, Richard Norton, Don “The Dragon Wilson”, and Jerry Trimble, among others. Â But his career spanned much further, and I’d always wanted to check out his exploitation [...]
“Red State” (2011)
When I heard the buzz surrounding Kevin Smith’s Red State, it sounded dubious.  Though I haven’t seen Cop Out, I thought Zack and Miri Make a Porno was overly sentimental, and, well, the less said about Jersey Girl the better.  Was this movie really going to be any better than those? Red State takes place in [...]
