Blu-ray Review: Scooby Doo & KISS: Rock and Roll Adventure

by Matt Sernaker, Managing Editor ZOINKS! The Mystery, Inc. gang is back and ready for new adventures! When a mysterious witch starts causing problems at KISS World (the official KISS themed amusement park), Scooby Doo and his friends will need…

DVD Review: Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish – The Swearing O’ The Green

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief Kevin Smith (Clerks, Red State) started SModcast with producer Scott Mosier in 2007 and it inadvertently changed his life. In August of 2010, Jason Mewes (Clerks, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Todd and The Book…

DVD Review: Todd & The Book of Pure Evil – The Complete First Season

High School is Hell

by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

Fifteen years ago, Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on television and the success of its seven seasons (or twelve if you include Angel) brought supernatural action drama into being, leading inevitably to today’s supernatural shows ranging from The Vampire Diaries, through Supernatural and Being Human, and into the occasionally-clothed and always sexy True Blood. But Buffy had a few things going for it that the others did not. Notably here are its clever and ubiquitous self-referential humor and perhaps most importantly here is that Buffy possessed something that most other supernatural shows never had. It was in the beginning set in one of the most frightening places on earth: High School.

(Beware: Some spoilers ahead!)