Category Archives: Movies

Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Clovehitch Killer

Posted on July 4, 2021 by curtisrunstedler

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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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Posted on June 24, 2021 by curtisrunstedler

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

Posted on December 23, 2020 by curtisrunstedler

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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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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