"I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily." - Tom Petty

(Man, I feel like everybody would want to be friends with Tom Petty. He's a cool dude. But that's not what we're here to talk about. I just felt like saying it.)

New Friends: The Mike's Five Favorite Movies of the 2010s 

(So Far) (Plus A Lot More Movies)

When it comes to movies, I'm a lot like Mr. Petty's quote above. I like lots and lots and lots of movies - probably far too many movies - but very few new movies replace my older, more established favorite films in my heart. But recently I was reading about some peoples' favorite movies of the last five-ish years and it got me thinking about the movies I'd pick to be my favorites of that time span. And the more I thought about, the more it surprised me and became something I think I should write about. So that's what I'm doing.

Before we get to that arbitrary five - because lists pretty much have to go in fives and tens, you know - I'm gonna rattle off some honorable mentions and runners-up, naturally. Asking me to only mention five movies is not a realistic suggestion. Not one bit.  

Honorable Mentions (aka, movies I like a ton):

(in alphabetical order) (release year and director following each title) (extra set of parentheses to make things weird)
The Aggression Scale (2012, Steven C. Miller), Black Death (2010, Christopher Smith), Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky), Blue Caprice (2013, Alexandre Moors), Cheap Thrills (2013, E.L. Katz), Django Unchained (2012, Quentin Tarantino), Drinking Buddies (2013, Joe Swanberg), A Horrible Way To Die (2010, Adam Wingard), Joe (2013, David Gordon Green), Kill List (2011, Ben Wheatley), Need for Speed (2014, Scott Waugh), Our Idiot Brother (2011, Jesse Peretz), Rubber (2010, Quentin Dupieux), Some Guy Who Kills People (2011, Jack Perez), Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010, Eli Craig), We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011, Lynne Ramsey), Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow)

A few comments I feel I need to make:

• Yeah, that's lots of horror.
• Need For Speed is on the list. Yeah, I said it. I had a lot of fun watching it a couple of weeks ago and I threw it in now. Maybe I'm riding the adrenaline high still, or maybe I'm just high.
• Had to throw some Nic Cage on the list. Joe rocks.
• Most atypical film for me on the list? Drinking Buddies. Not something I thought I'd like, but Joe Swanberg's story is so well drawn and the actors make it feel real. Great stuff.

Runners-Up (aka, movies I like a ton, and also a little more than the last set of movies)
(same rules as above)
Absentia (2011, Mike Flanagan), The Avengers (2012, Joss Whedon), Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman), Evil Dead (2013, Fede Alvarez), Godzilla (2014, Gareth Edwards), Mud (2012, Jeff Nichols), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011, Rupert Wyatt), The Social Network (2010, David Fincher), Stake Land (2010, Jim Mickle), Stoker (2013, Chan-wook Park), Take Shelter (2011, Jeff Nichols), Your Sister's Sister (2011, Lynn Shelton).

More comments:

• A lot of personal nerdy favorites here. Despite the dissenters, no one will convince me Evil Dead or Godzilla aren't great additions to their franchises. And The Avengers is just swell.
• Edge of Tomorrow just hit home video and if you didn't see it - odds are you didn't, considering its box office failure - you need to do so now. It's such a wonderfully fun movie.
• I doubled down on Jeff Nichols, and rightfully so. Both Take Shelter and Mud are powerhouse flicks led by actors at the top of their game.
• Emily Blunt is a recurring theme on this list as we keep going. Not ashamed. I lurve her soooooooo much.

First Runners-Up (aka, movies I like a ton, and also movies that I seriously thought should be in the Top 5)

•  The Cabin in the Woods (2012, Drew Goddard) - Is this the most fun movie of the last five years? For me, it might be. Such a fantastic twist on horror cliches, played with a perfect dose of comedy by Goddard and co-writer Joss Whedon. The perfect movie for horror fans who loved Whedon's work on Angel, which I certainly did.
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014, Joe & Anthony Russo) - I'm still shocked by how much I like this movie. The first Captain flick was fun, but it might have been my least favorite film in Marvel's recent run. And then this sequel showed up, helmed by unheralded comedy writers, and became the most thrilling action movie in a long time. Robert Redford adds instant credibility to the film, and Chris Evans is just such a perfect choice to play Cap. The effects are amazing, the pace never lets up, and it feels like one of those '90s action movies I love so much. That's a big compliment coming from me.
• Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) - I want my own Greta Gerwig. Is that weird? That's probably weird. My point is that she's a true star in Baumbach's black-and-white coming of age story, which highlights the life of a young woman who's just trying to make it through life and hits on a lot of truths about growing up. It's infectious and sweet, and just makes me smile a lot.
• I Saw the Devil (2010, Kim Jee-woon) - Man, this movie is brutal. Revenge has rarely seemed as personal as it does in this one, where Byung Hun-lee tracks and brutalizes a sociopathic serial killer played by Oldboy's Min-sik Choi. It's one of those movies that has to be seen to be believed, and can't be unseen once it's been seen. That sounds ridiculous, but in the case of this movie it's 100% true.
• Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller) - Brad Pitt in the front office of a baseball team with Jonah Hill as his plucky assistant shouldn't be really great, but this movie is really great. Pitt can carry any kind of film, but his quirky personality comes off genuine here and the details of the story are handled deftly by Miller. Plus there's some Aaron Sorkin in the script, and Aaron Sorkin is an instant win in my book. This flick just pops off the screen.
• Pacific Rim (2013, Guillermo del Toro) - Remember earlier when I got really nerdy excited about Godzilla and The Avengers and Evil Dead? This movie makes me even more nerdy excited. It's not for fans of acting or conventional drama, but it is a larger than life spectacle that had me drooling all over myself for more than two hours the first time I saw it. My first experience with this kaiju epic will surely be one of the great memories of my film-going life.
•  You're Next (2011, Adam Wingard) - Another movie that's here mostly because it's just more fun than other movies. It's the best of several horror film worlds put together - home invasion, slasher, and splatterfest; to name a few - with a ton of indie talent coming together for a movie that I can watch on repeat that keeps a smile on my face every time.

 OK, so are you ready for the five I picked as my top five? I sure am. This list turned into something entirely different, didn't it?

The Mike's Five Favorite Movies of the 2010s (So Far)

(we're sticking with alphabetical order, rankings are far too difficult)

Looper
(2012, Rian Johnson)

A sci-fi/action/drama that's surprisingly poignant, Looper is one of those movies that looked too good to be true. Miraculously, writer/director Rian Johnson avoided several potential snags that can derail this kind of film- too much romance, bad child acting, gimmicky plot twists - and created one of the most heartfelt sci-fi films I've ever seen.

Looper is carried by strong lead performances by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, and Emily Blunt, yet the surprising star of the film is young Pierce Gagnon as the child at the center of the film's generation spanning plot. His role is the most crucial piece of the film, and any slight slips could have knocked the wind out of the whole show. Johnson, who had deftly maneuvered through the neo-noir Brick with Gordon-Levitt a few years earlier, has shown a skill for getting the best out of his cast and putting them in the right spot, and what the filmmaker and crew do to help this youngster in such a significant role is amazing.

Looper has just the right mix of all of its parts - there's enough action to keep the pace racing, enough drama to keep us on the hook and even a little romance to keep the characters' lives interesting. It's a perfectly drawn film that belongs with the best Earthbound sci-fi films of all-time.

Martha Marcy May Marlene
(2011, Sean Durkin)

Elizabeth Olsen - younger sister of the infamous Olsen twins - is the best young actress in the world today.

Yeah, you read that right. I said it. I mean it.

You might not have seen it yet in her mainstream roles - she's most known to the masses for her thankless role in last summer's Godzilla reboot (I loved the movie as a G-fan, but was disappointed that she was given little to do) - but Martha Marcy May Marlene shows off one of the most intense and wonderful performances by an actress that I've seen.

This certainly isn't a film for everyone - it's a brutal depiction of what time in a cult can do to someone - but it's filled with strong performances by talents like John Hawkes and Sarah Paulson and does a great job of working its story between the main character's time in the cult and her attempts to reenter the real world.

At the center of it all is Olsen, who gives a heartbreaking performance as this truly tortured character. I think she's more than enough to make this movie engrossing, and it's been stuck in my head since the first time I laid eyes on it. This is an intense dramatic masterpiece.

Monsters
(2010, Gareth Edwards)

Gareth Edwards was dream choice for the new Godzilla film for me after this poetic sci-fi film about two Americans making their way through an alien infested Latin America while giant freakin' monsters roamed around. Despite the title and the presence of said monsters, Edwards showed off a skill for making us feel like there are big things around while focusing in on the personal moments between characters.

(One could argue that the lack of those personal moments - or at least personal moments that felt genuine - was a problem with Edwards' Godzilla. I can see that point. I still love it and am gonna keep loving it.)

Monsters isn't really the kind of movie that most fans of old-school kaiju films like the Godzilla series are looking for. I think it's more of a road movie in which two characters come to know each other while dealing with the fate that surrounds them. Kind of like Titanic, but with amazing scenery and huge monsters. And that's way better than anything with Celine Dion on the soundtrack in my book.

Safety Not Guaranteed 
(2012, Colin Trevorrow)

We move from the guy who moved on to direct to Godzilla to the guy who has moved on to direct the upcoming Jurassic Park sequel - which proves unequivocally that these are my kinds of filmmakers.

Safety Not Guaranteed is another time travel movie, but this one's all about a guy (The League's Mark Duplass) who claims he has a time machine and the reporters (Parks and Recreation's Aubrey Plaza, New Girl's Jake Johnson, all those funny cell phone commercials with nerds' Karan Soni) who try to investigate his strange classified ad.

The cast of people who are all over your TV sets (none of whom I really knew anything about when I first saw the film, coincidentally) are fantastic together, with Johnson showing off the comedic skills that have made him a breakout star and Duplass and Plaza working well together in a mismatched romance. Like Monsters, this is a movie about relationships that puts its characters in a "what if?" situation. The questions that the film asks - What if the time machine works? What if the guy's completely crazy  What if the government is really chasing this guy? - and the approach Colin Trevorrow and his cast use make Safety Not Guaranteed a heartwarming movie with some beautiful moments of pure humanity. The ending will make you pump your fist in appreciation too.

Sleepwalk With Me
(2012, Mike Birbiglia & Seth Barrish)

Probably the most personal pick on this list for me, even though I'm not really sure why I identify with this film so well. Comedian Mike Birbiglia tells a fictional accounting of his own life - which he also stars in - and does an amazing job of weaving this film together.

A large part of the film is of course filled with Birbiglia's journey to becoming one of the most known comedians in the world, but along the ride we also get a look at his perspective on relationships and his personal problems - including the sleep disorder that is referenced in the title - and everything comes together and just feels honest and touching.

Sleepwalk With Me is a rare film because it feels like this man is baring himself for the camera and airing all his dirty laundry in public. The ability to do that and keep the crowd not only laughing at what you're saying but also caring about what you're saying is certainly important when you're a comedian, but I think the introspective approach we see from this character is a key to success in any walk of life. I'm not sure how much of Mike Birbiglia's story here is true, but it feels true. And that's a feat that lots of accomplished filmmakers can't achieve.

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So that's the list. It went on too long and it might have gotten boring at times, but I'm a film nerd and I can't not be a film nerd. I hope you'll check out some of these films if you think they seem interesting, there's nothing better to a film nerd than spreading the love to your favorite films. It feels weird to call these some of my favorite films - like Petty said way back at the beginning, I'm not much for new relationships - but writing about them sure makes me feel like these are some movies that just might stand the test of time. Writing about them has me ready to start watching them all again.

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it." - Roger Ebert

The Mike's Favorite DVD/Blu-Ray Releases of 2014
(So Far)

Part 2

No good list has just one part. Heck, I'm pretty sure that's what college was all about. All those syllabuses or syllabi or syllables that professors handed out had tons of different parts to them. And that's what you have to do to get a degree. Therefore, I believe that lists with multiple parts are what make you a scholar. It's science.

My list of my favorite flicks-on-discs so far this year started with my favorite lesser known new flicks, and you can check them out in Part 1 by clicking somewhere in this part where I typed clicking somewhere in this part.  Now, I'm here to talk about some of the most fun older films released on Blu-ray for the first time in 2014.

Note - same disclaimer as last time: there's a lot of horror. A zebra can't change his stripes and a horror blogger can't either.

Let's get to it! 

The Mike's Favorite Older Movies Released on Blu-ray in 2014 (So Far)

Die Monster Die - 1965 - Blu-ray - January 21, 2014 - Scream Factory

It's a goofy H.P. Lovecraft adaptation that surely doesn't do justice to the text of H.P. Lovecraft, but it sure is a fun little spastic '60s horror film. What it lacks in plot is made up for by vibrant colors and strange visuals, not to mention the presence of the icon, Boris Karloff. This is a rather bare bones disc by the folks over at Scream Factory, but the price is adjusted for the lack of special features and the film sure looks cool in HD.

Frankenstein Created Woman - 1967 - Blu-ray - January 28, 2014 - Millennium Entertainment/Hammer Films

It's hard being a Hammer addict in the blu-ray era, as most of their greatest films are currently held by companies like Warner and Universal that have pumped the brakes on production of physical media. Thankfully we still have a few Hammer classics that could get blu release here in the U.S., led by this one last January. It's not my favorite Hammer Frankenstein film, but the special features - including a new documentary on the women of Hammer - and the cool lobby cards included in the package help make this a must own for nerds like me.

Foreign Correspondent - 1940 - Blu-ray & DVD - February 18, 2014 - Criterion Collection

Beautiful restoration of an early Alfred Hitchcock film that comes in a beautiful package. The combo pack offering comes with three discs and a ton of special features that cover one of Hitchcock's first American films, but I think it's most worth watching because it's one of Hitchcock's most atypical, grand scale films. (Plus, there are a lot of beautiful covers for the movies on this list, but this package is the one among them that had me looking for a drool napkin so I didn't mess it up because I was gawking at it so lustfully when I opened it. So it's got that goin' for it, which is nice.)

The Visitor - 1979 - Blu-Ray & DVD - March 4, 2014 - Drafthouse Films

Probably the weirdest movie restored to home video in 2014, this trippy horror film from Italian director Giulio Paradisi (under the pseudonym Michael J. Paradise) features an A-list cast (Glenn Ford is even in it!) and bizarre visuals and a whole lot of stuff that doesn't make any sense. But man, is it fun to watch. I don't know who was looking around at old movies and said "Hey, check out this thing! Let's restore and re-release this!" but I'd definitely like to shake that person's hand. (Author's note - I'm not stoned.)

Sorcerer - 1977 - Blu-ray & DVD - April 22, 2014 - Warner Brothers

I don't want to spoiler the rest of the list, but I'm just gonna say it now - this is the best disc of the year. By far. I'd heard for a long time that this was William Friedkin's third masterpiece of the 1970s, but no complete version of the film seemed to exist on home video. Warner Brothers finally did the right thing for this film, as Friedkin himself supervised this new transfer which is the prettiest thing I've seen this year. And if that's not enough, the film was given a mega cool Blu-ray book package, complete with liner notes from Friedkin and some cool special features. This is the rare disc that proves how relevant home video still can be.

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats - 1977 - Blu-ray - June 3, 2014 - Cult Epics

OK, so maybe The Visitor isn't the weirdest film restored to home video in 2014. If you're like me you see the title - Death Bed: The Bed That Eats - and you get an image of a certain kind of film in your head. If you're like me, that image is probably wrong compared to what this movie actually is. It's not just a movie where a bed eats people, it's a movie where a bed eats people and the whole thing seems like a weird Andy Warhol painting and kind of makes you think it's actually legitimate art. Yeah, I know that sounds crazy. But it's a movie called Death Bed: The Bed That Eats and it's on blu-ray and it's 2014 and the world is a beautiful place, man. (I'm really not stoned, I swear.)

The Legend of Billie Jean - 1985 - Blu-ray - July 22, 2014 - Mill Creek Entertainment

Normally I wouldn't put a bare bones blu-ray from bargain bin company Mill Creek on a list like this, especially when the film on the disc doesn't really seem all that high definition. But The Legend of Billie Jean is a curiously fun '80s flick that puts a modern twist on the story of Joan of Arc and it's just pretty cool to see a movie like this finally getting a release that's not on a DVR and is incredibly cheap. I'm sure another company could have done more for this film's disc debut, but it's at least nice to have the movie out there now.

Ginger Snaps - 2000 - Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack - July 22, 2014 - Scream Factory

Most horror movies made in the DVD era have been released and re-released a handful of times already, so it was always curious to me that Ginger Snaps - a fantastic werewolf tale that is a testament to women in horror too - has always been only available in one old pan & scan edition. The folks at Scream Factory are smart enough to know that this film deserved better, and the restored version makes the film look brand new while also featuring a ton of great special features. This is a disc that truly needed to be made, so hugs to the Scream crew one more time. (Note - You guys might want to get a restraining order against me if you don't like hugs. Just sayin'.)

Curtains - 1983 - Blu-ray - July 29, 2014 - Synapse Films

This movie can't look as good as it does on this blu-ray. I just don't believe it. And yet, it does. It's not the best slasher movie of the early '80s, for sure, but I firmly believe every slasher movie deserves to be treated like a classy lady and Synapse has treated Curtains as such. And this thing is worth it for the ice skating scene alone. Trust me.

Leviathan - 1989 - Blu-ray - August 19, 2014 - Scream Factory

Scream Factory is back again - the prices are high (and this one seems to have bumped up since release, sadly), but they are still killing it. Leviathan is a personal favorite that plays like a cheesy deep sea version of Alien. I love the cast (Peter Weller! Ernie Hudson! Amanda Pays! Daniel Stern! Evil Bitch Meg Foster! Hector Elizondo!), I love the bizarre gore, and I LOVE the final moments, even if they're a little un-PC these days. Not enough special features for my liking, but I think I might be the only person that wants to analyze Leviathan forever, so I guess I'll give them a pass here.

Pumpkinhead - 1988 - Blu-ray - September 6, 2014 - Scream Factory

This has never been one of my favorite horror films - good gosh, there's some terrible actors in the supporting cast and the pacing is a little slow at times - but man have I always loved that monster. Stan Winston is one of the greatest things that ever happened to movies, and his lone directorial effort is a testament to what he could do with special effects. Scream Factory might have produced their best disc here, fill of interesting features and offering a beautiful version of the film. Worth the price tag and more.

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There are no doubt a lot of other great discs that have come out this year, but unfortunately I can only afford some of them without giving up all of my social life and food to the DVD Gods. I'm sure I'll have a update to the list later in the year - this fall looks pretty stacked for the horror scene and there are plenty of titles I've missed thus far.

If you produced a disc that you wish was on this list, feel free to send it to me for consideration. :)

As always, hit up the comments and tell me what you like/dislike/want to talk about/had for dinner/etc. And buy some movies. It's good for you. I promise.

"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me." - Tim Burton

The Mike's Favorite DVD/Blu-Ray Releases of 2014
(So Far)

 Part 1

For genre lovers like myself it's a pretty great time to still be a collector of movies on disc, even if we're long past the DVD heyday of the early 2000s. Digital copies are being pushed down our throats and physical media is hidden in corners of many stores but, as you're about to see, there are still a lot of great little companies putting out interesting independent stuff and well-restored editions of cult classics. It's been a relatively slow year of film collection for me - relative to my own high standards, that is - but I've still been pretty stoked to add some really fun new discs to my collection this year.

What follows is a list in two parts, and it's best that I probably start with a comment on the discs I'm excluding from this post. You can no doubt guess that modern release like Gravity or Captain America: The Winter Soldier have been given fine treatment by the studios behind them. However, I will not be covering them here. You don't need me to remind you that you liked that movie you already saw.

What I will be covering are firstly releases of lesser-known independent and low budget films you might not be acquainted with; and secondly releases of older films that are everything that (and sometimes more than) fans of the film could hope for. The first will occur right here, the second will be coming up in the near future.

Note 1 - Yeah, these are mostly horror flicks. It's what I like and it's what's being released. If someone had restored The Limey or The Spanish Prisoner or Big Daddy (say what you want, but Sandler had a winning streak in the last 90s) maybe I'd be talking about them. But horror has the niche and the niche is where things sell these days

Note 2 - I'm not a big special features guy, so don't expect an in depth analysis of each disc. However, there are some good things I'll point out to you.

Now, let's get talkin' about Part 1 of this list. (And yes, those are Amazon links with each title. I'm enabling you, I admit it.)

The Mike's Favorite Lesser Known New Movies on DVD/Blu-Ray of 2014 (So Far)

Haunter - DVD & Blu-ray - Feb 11, 2014 - IFC Midnight
A haunted house riff on Groundhog Day, led by Abigail Breslin and the always cool Stephen McHattie. Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali keeps the flick moving with a catchy plot and some well done suspense. It's a relatively cheap disc too (both the blu and DVD run under $10 right now) and it should be perfect for those October nights when non-horror fans want to watch horror movies.

Here Comes The Devil - DVD & Blu-Ray - March 18, 2014 - Magnet Releasing
A few years ago Magnet was probably the king of genre home video. They were nailing the horror/cult market, picking up great films like Monsters, The Innkeepers, Hobo With a Shotgun, and more. Their pickings have been a little slimmer over the last few years, but they still hit an occasional home run. This year their best offering might be this Mexican horror film full of evil children, evil sex, and strange twists. It's been a divisive film with critics, but I'm a big fan. There's a dream sequence that's the modern horror equivalent of Rosemary's Baby.

Low - DVD - March 25, 2014 - Brink
I saw Low a few years ago while reviewing independent screeners and it's stuck with me since. I was shocked to find it on DVD earlier this year, but not surprised at the success of this little thriller. A game of cat-and-mouse between a woman and man in the English countryside, Low provides gripping twists while showing off beautiful scenery. I saw a screener on blu-ray when I first met this film, but the released DVD from Brink doesn't suffer in quality.

Nurse 3D - Blu-Ray/Blu-ray 3D - April 8, 2014 - Lionsgate
Yes, I feel guilty about this one. A violent twist on Single White Female with a bizarre lead performance by Paz de la Huerta, who might spend more time unclothed than clothed in the film. And yet it feels like something of a genuine relic, a throwback to the kind of bizarre drive-in film one might see in the late 1970s mixed with the ridiculous modern 3D gore craze. I find this movie's existence rather comforting.

Escape From Tomorrow - DVD & Blu-Ray - April 29, 2014 - Random Media
This movie doesn't exactly work, but man is it fascinating to watch. Why is it so fascinating? Because you would never expect this film to have been made. Director Randy Moore and his cast and crew made this tale - about a man who goes crazy dealing with a middle age crisis and sexual frustration while visiting a theme park - was filmed guerrilla style at Disney World in black & white. There are several special features that recount the amazing story of how this movie even happened and avoided the wrath of Disney, and cynical movie lovers will probably get a big kick out of it.

Raze - DVD - May 20, 2014 - IFC Midnight
Raze is a movie that is entirely about women beating the hell out of each other, and I admit that I felt kind of dirty watching it. I also kind of loved it. Stuntwoman extraordinaire Zoe Bell (of Death Proof fame) stars as the alpha woman of this underground Fight Club/Hunger Games while genre notables Doug Jones and Sherilyn Fenn eat up some screen time as well. It's an incredibly involving film, and I found myself physically rooting for characters as if it were a real sporting event. The disc is packed with extras too, and the behind the scenes information provided is pretty interesting. I wonder why there's no blu-ray though.

Cheap Thrills - DVD & Blu-ray - May 27, 2014 - Drafthouse Films
A fantastic cast - led by Pat Healy, Ethan Embry, Sara Paxton and a perfectly cast David Koechner - makes this story of two men pitted against each other (and themselves) to earn some money become a memorable dark comedy. One of the most brutal films you'll see this year, and the perfectly odd Drafthouse Films label does the film justice with a lot of special features and a fine transfer of the film. Drafthouse's discs can be a little pricey out of the gate, but this one's definitely worth it. It's a really fantastic flick, the kind of movie that makes me grin from ear to ear and wish there were more like it.
 

All Cheerleaders Die - DVD & Blu-Ray - July 22, 2014 - Image Entertainment
One of the most exciting horror comedies I've seen in a while, which plays like the movie Jennifer's Body would have been if it weren't so interested in making stars of its cast and writer. It's got a weird mix of horror - offering evil macho male football players alongside re-animated cheerleaders and some rune stone witchcraft - but co-directors Chris Sivertson and Lucky McKee keep it moving at a brisk pace and seem pretty sure of themselves here. The end title card lists the film as All Cheerleaders Die: Part One, and I sure hope there's a Part II somewhere in the future.

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That's all for today, but feel free to hit up the comment box. If you aren't a movie hoarder like me, you'll be pleased to know that several of these films are currently on that popular Netflix thing and other streaming services. I can't promise you'll like them, that's on you.

Come back soon for Part 2, in which I'll cover my favorite older films released on Blu-Ray in 2014 so far!