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The Cameron COVID Conspiracy
PLEASE NOTE: This “conspiracy theory” is a joke. It’s not an actual conspiracy theory, I just made it up to be funny. Do not take this seriously. This isn’t misinformation, it’s humour. It was recently confirmed that Avatar 2, after … Continue reading
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 film The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane has finally come to Shudder, enchanting and entertaining fresh audiences with yet another strong early performance from Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen. Foster plays Rynn Jacobs, a remarkably … Continue reading
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Tagged horror, Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, mystery, Shudder
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Clovehitch Killer
Duncan Skiles’ 2018 “killer thriller” The Clovehitch Killer is a real pearl on Netflix, a fantastic find that was recommended via one of Stephen King’s Tweets (he also gave it a glowing review). It’s based on the crimes of the … Continue reading
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Tagged BTK Killer, Dylan McDermott, horror, killer thriller, netflix, serial killers, The Clovehitch Killer
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
I finally got around to watching the classic 1982 The Slumber Party Massacre, and it was worth the wait. I think it’s my new favourite slasher movie! The film had a strange production, and because of it, it’s delightfully subversive … Continue reading
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: A Royal Affair
Nikolaj Arcel’s 2012 Danish film A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære) is an absolute delight and a visual feast for the senses. I recently watched Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film Another Round (Druk), which also stars my favourite actor Mads Mikkelsen … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century, A Royal Affair, Alicia Vikander, Danish cinema, Mads Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Arcel
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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Death Spa (1989)
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)
‘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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Tagged hilary swank
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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
‘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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Tagged robert forster, werewolf
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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Antebellum (2020)
‘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)
‘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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