Mr. Burke Reviews

Review #24: The Ape, The Bat, Doomed to Die, The Corpse Vanishes Toward the end of the era of video rental and the rise of online streaming, there was a time when discount and dollar stores would sell dollar DVDs of old movies, likely in public domain. I collected a few of these before coming to the realization that if I wouldn't pay a dollar to rent one of these, why am I paying money to own them? The answer is that some of these are classics that would never show up at regular video stores, and with the rise of chain stores pushing the "mom & pop" places out of business, the price to rent was considerably more than a buck anyway. Anyway, I recently had occasion to pull a few videos out of the basement on a mission to view them and then pass them along. Passing along likely means the donation pile, because I'm not sure who might be interested and also owns a DVD player. As it is, I watched these on my desktop PC. I do have a portable player, but the screen i

Review #23: Los Parecidos a.k.a. The Similars Some friends of mine have watched The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix. I am not among those who have viewed it. It's labelled as being very intense, and that's not something I'm going to binge. I don't need anything that's going to prevent me from sleeping well (more than the usual things that already prevent me from sleeping well). However, I am enough of a fan of the "classics" that one of the aforementioned friends invited a lot of us over to view the 1963 movie The Haunting (which was remade in the 90s). This movie is more of a thriller than a horror film, and it's always a bit off-kilter. Mini-review within a review: you should want this film. The problem was that when the movie ended, the evening was still young, and we needed something else to watch. Trying to figure out what to put on next is as difficult as trying to pick a place to eat. We looked through the horror listings, not wanting an