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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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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – DeepStar Six (1989)

Posted on October 13, 2020 by castordurden

Onward with the pervasive trends of the 80’s, ‘DeepStar Six’ is Carolco’s twiddling, extremely slow-burn installment in the abyss-spelunking subgenre. The dry-for-wet technique for marine-biology authenticity that was so palpable in ‘Leviathan’ is a facsimile of matte composites and miniatures … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Gems – The Devil All the Time (2020)

Posted on October 12, 2020 by castordurden

‘ The Devil All the Time’ is a chronologically jagged, hyperliterate mood piece with a homespun narrator device for a William Peter Blatty-esque yarn about Pentecostal extremism. The clergical image of a gunnery sergeant Miller Jones crucified in the Solomon … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Nightmare Beach (1989)

Posted on October 11, 2020 by castordurden

I suppose the reason that left-wing filmmakers regurgitated the analogous storyline of a resurrected death-row killer was because it was their soapbox against capital punishment. As such, ‘Nightmare Beach’s is a tactless notch on the flashpoint topic which nullifies any … Continue reading →

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Castor’s Hallow’s Eve Duds – Species II (1998)

Posted on October 10, 2020 by castordurden

Having recently watched Peter Medak in ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers‘, I could only envision how insignificant the maelstrom of egos between Michael Madsen and Natasha Henstridge must’ve been in comparison to Sellers’ manipulative megalomania. Luckily, the most vanity Medak … Continue reading →

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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Saturday Night Fever

Posted on September 28, 2020 by curtisrunstedler

Magill wrote a fun piece on this film a couple years ago, but I really wanted to revisit Saturday Night Fever (undeniably one of my all-time favourites and my favourite musical) in the wake of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements. … Continue reading →

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