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Movies Till Dawn: Coffin Crisp Wafer Bar (Halloween 2021)
“The Stand” (2021, CBS Home Video/Paramount Home Video) Miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling apocalypse novel for CBS All Access is a vast improvement over the 1994 TV version, but still struggles to present a coherent encapsulation of the story’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, CBS All Access, CBS Home Video, Halloween, Kino Lorber, Paramount Home Video, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Chocolate Vampire Kisses (Halloween 2021 Edition)
“Kolchak: The Night Stalker (The Complete Series)” (1974-75, Kino Lorber) Having survived a vampire in Las Vegas and an undead strangler beneath the city of Seattle, reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin, still decades away from playing the Old Man from … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Halloween, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VCI Entertainment, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Men and Their Decisions
“The Green Knight” (2021, Lionsgate Home Entertainment/A24) Retelling of the 14th century Arthurian poen with Dev Patel as a decidedly un-heroic (at first) Sir Gawain, who is reluctantly thrust into action by the supernatural Green Knight’s plan to claim his … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Neon Demons)
“Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker” (1983, Code Red) Life for adopted teen Jimmy McNichol gets weird in a hurry after he’s offered a college basketball scholarship: the attentions of his aunt (the late, great Susan Tyrell) turn from overprotective to unsettlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Code Red, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Summer Shockers
“The Columnist” (2019, Film Movement) Writer Katja Herbers takes a direct approach to the ceaseless toxic spew issuing from anonymous male posters about her column: she tracks them down and murders them in increasingly gruesome ways. The blackly amusing conceit … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: With/Without a Backwards Glance
“The Wild Life” (1984, Kino Lorber) Wasted days and wasted nights with three boys (Eric Stoltz, Chris Penn, and Ilan-Mitchell Smith) navigating the suburban jungles of Los Angeles. Minor retread of co-director-writer-producer Cameron Crowe and co-director Art Linson‘s “Fast Times … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Film Movement, Fun City Editions, Kino Lorber, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment, USA
“Positive I.D.” (1987, Kino Lorber) Emotionally pulverized and withdrawn from her family after a sexual assault, Stephanie Rascoe finds a mix of release and revenge in a loophole law that allows her to assume a different identity and pursue her … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Sleigh Bells Ring for the Saturday Morning Strange
“The Lake Michigan Monster” (2018, Arrow Films) A hapless sea captain (Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, who also wrote and directed the film) and his equally inept crew take to the waters of Lake Michigan to destroy the creature that killed … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Academy, Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, MVD Visuals, The Film Detective, Unearthed Classics, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: The World is a Monster (Halloween 2020, Part 6)
“The Dead Center” (2018, Arrow Video) Psychiatrist Shane Carruth and medical examiner Bill Feehely are pulled into the orbit of an apparent suicide victim (Jeremy Childs) who revives in the morgue with no memory of his death and the ability … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Films, Cleopatra Entertainment, MVD Rewind Collection, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: The World is a Monster (Halloween 2020, Part 3)
“The Deeper You Dig” (2019, Arrow Video) The deck is already stacked against loner Kurt (John Adams) – he’s accidentally killed teenager Echo (Zelda Adams), and despite many attempts, can’t seem to dispose of her body – when he discovers … Continue reading
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