Cereal At Midnight

Let's unbox our latest haul of goodies from another great movie distributor! In this episode, we're covering our pick-ups from a recent buy-one-get-one-free sale at DeepDiscount for titles from the Olive Films library! There's something for everyone here, from horror to noir, and even some biker madness! OliveFilms.com DeepDiscount.com

A stable of fine English actors, solid source material, and a truly-unnerving feeling of dread make 1965's  The Skull  a standout horror film that levitates above its limitations. There's a lot to appreciate with 1965's The Skull , from the cast, to the story, to the production itself. The film comes from Amicus, a studio that--for a time--stood toe-to-toe with Hammer Films as the pinnacle of British horror. This success was an ironic achievement, considering that Amicus was founded by two Americans working in the English film system. And while this movie doesn't quite have the Gothic grandeur that graces so many Hammer productions, it does excel through a story first penned by legendary genre-writer Robert Bloch (the author of Psycho ), outstanding cinematography, and a capital cast culled from Hammer's finest players.

In this video, we unbox our haul from Kino Lorber Studio Classic's 5th Anniversary Sale! Check out our cheat sheet to the sale for all our top recommendations HERE :

The good folks at Kino Lorber Studio Classics have just kicked off a 5th anniversary sale! We're big supporters of the label--which focuses specifically on taking films from the vaults of major studios and giving them stellar Blu-ray releases--and these sales have become the stuff of legend. There are close to a hundred KL Studio Classics titles in our Cereal At Midnight library, so we thought we would give you guys OUR picks for things that we recommend and why. Consider this your Cereal At Midnight cheat sheet for the sale! Click below for our top recommendations--alphabetized for your browsing convenience!

Based on the title of this film, you would be forgiven for thinking this horror anthology from 1967 is the kind of movie you should avoid. After all, we've had a glut of "torture porn" crap over the last 10-15 years where legitimate creeps have been replaced by what amounts to an endurance test of the worst kind. There is actually no torture in  Torture Garden , nor is there any real gore. No,  Torture Garden  is actually an old-fashioned, comic-book style horror film in the same vein as  Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside,  or even  Trick 'r Treat.  Let's be clear up front though, this movie is nowhere near as good as those. Still, it replicates--in movie form--the thrill of entering a carnival fun house and not knowing what you're going to see.