There are a lot of horror movie options that arrive every Halloween season. It’s a crowded field of competitors, but most fail to become memorable, even with heavy amounts of violence and disturbing content. “Hallowarrior” is no roller coaster ride of a film, but writer/director Ben Sottak (making his feature-length helming debut) manages to cook up atmosphere and urgency with the low-budget offering, and he’s committed to the Halloween vibes of the picture, examining a holiday preserved by a young woman after the rest of the world succumbs to a plague. “Hallowarrior” eventually gets around to more physical peril, but it’s mostly a study of a stand-off with periodic breaks to deal with gory and dire events, and Sottak provides some suspense in the stillness, best when he gets weird and wilder with the small-scale production. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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