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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Death Spa (1989)

Posted on October 24, 2020 by castordurden

What a dazzling corker of an opening! The camera cranes down to the marquee of a health facility and suddenly lightning strikes on the sign. Henceforth the club is “Death Spa” and cinematographer Arledge Armenaki lurks around the corridors with … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – The Hunt (2020)

Posted on October 23, 2020 by castordurden

‘The Hunt’ is Blumhouse’s archly hipster, redundant rendition of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ with liberal dosages of presumptuous gallows humor which never materialize into talking-head laughs (the anti-elite lines are mortifying edentate- “We’re gonna be on Hannity…Just like those two … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

Posted on October 22, 2020 by castordurden

‘The Wolf of Snow Hollow’ is an enjoyably blithe horror-comedy hybrid for Jim Cummings’ trifecta of headliner, writer and director and beyond that, it is a bittersweet epitaph for Robert Forster whose gravitas stratify this lycanthrope tale to snowbound film … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Antebellum (2020)

Posted on October 21, 2020 by castordurden

‘Antebellum’ is a punishingly self-congratulatory, crystalline thriller with an egregious exploitation of the nation’s dehumanization of Nubian citizens to the point of non-minority prejudice (Jena Malone is defiantly overacting as Elizabeth, a Caucasian succubus who obviates eye contact with “inferior” … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – Possessor Uncut (2020)

Posted on October 18, 2020 by castordurden

‘Possessor Uncut’ is a clinical, nonplussed grotesquery about the fungible nature of identity in an Orwellian surveillance society and Canadian auteur Brandon Cronenberg more than adjudicates how plainly rancorous monolithic corporations are and will be in the adjacent future.

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – You Should Have Left (2020)

Posted on October 18, 2020 by castordurden

‘You Should Have Left’ is a byzantine, paranormal thriller which is also a scalpel-sharp Tinseltown satire (e.g. The rhetoric of a “closed set” is verboten to non- industry outsiders like Susanna’s (Amanda Seyfried) scandal-embroiled husband Theo Conroy (Kevin Bacon) but … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Hubie Halloween (2020)

Posted on October 17, 2020 by castordurden

‘Hubie Halloween’ is Adam Sandler’s bovine, stratospherically unfunny vendetta against the Academy Awards committee who omitted his nomination for his tour-de-force performance in last year’s ‘Uncut Gems’.

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – Shivers (1975)

Posted on October 16, 2020 by castordurden

Slide-show photography of Montreal’s Starliner Towers is immediately unnerving despite being pictures of the swanky tennis court and delicatessen. It could be the wryly monotone instructional video announcer and how it culminates with the medical examiner on the premises. David … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Peninsula: Train to Busan (2020)

Posted on October 15, 2020 by castordurden

‘Train to Busan: Peninsula’ is a faineant sequel to the exquisitely overrated South Korean zombie flick from 2016 and it doesn’t filibuster about pandemic theories (a pundit television appearance is the viewers’ only hypothesis and the acting is quite amateurish) … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – Blacula (1972)

Posted on October 14, 2020 by castordurden

Let’s all marvel at the fact that this blaxploitation horror flick is rated PG which was much more lenient during this era. While the boom mics are either hovering in the frame or muzzled with echoes around Count Dracula’s (Charles … Continue reading →

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