Crifearion: The Scary Side of The Criterion Channel

This one gets too real too quick! It also delivers some of the hardest laughs from a film we have seen in a long time! 

George has been saying its his fave for years.....and now that I have seen it! Its def one of the best! 

What is The Game? Its.....a game? I'll humor you with specifics later ;) 

We like talking about older films....so how about a new film set back when they made those films! We loved this movie so much were both seeing it again tonight. Instant classic! 

On this week's episode of Crifearion we discuss a film that is part Full Metal Jacket and part Stand By Me. 

Bernhard Wicki's astonishing The Bridge was the first major antiwar film to come out of Germany after World War II, as well as the nation's first postwar film to be widely shown internationally, even securing an Oscar nomination. 

Are you ready to find out what happens when the most important struggle of your life takes place in the least important place you can imagine? This is Crifearion.

In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. 

Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the Devil himself. 

Are you ready for a movie as disturbing as it is funny, as laid back as it is intense? Are you ready to meet a femme fatale who only wears white, see Julia Roberts in an electric chair and hear a pitch for The Graduate Part 2? We didn't have your address so we couldn't send you a postcard... accept instead this episode of Crifearion where we watch Robert Altman's comeback masterpiece, The Player

Chuck Tatum, an amoral newspaper reporter who washes up in dead-end Albuquerque, happens upon the scoop of a lifetime, and will do anything to keep getting the lurid headlines. Wilder's follow-up to Sunset Boulevard is an even darker vision, a no-holds-barred exposé of the American media's appetite for sensation that has gotten only more relevant with time.

One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world's most exotic prey, his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making history with 1933's King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this Richard Connell short story.