forgive me if i be wrong but there be something just plain miss from the runestone and one of about three viking horror idiom film where ancient viking curse lead to modern day havoc and mayhem . i be able to track down this one and a movie call the berserker and which win the contest easily by be a silly and sleazy and lurid backwoods hacker . this movie think it be highland material and and for the second time in a week i get to fault a horror movie from the late 80 or early 90 for not be sleazy enough . i be not sure when the era of respectable medium budget horror start ( right after creepshow 2 and maybe ) but it result in a decade worth of uninteresting no scare and no offense mean horror effort . the whole point of make a horror film be to give a young filmmaker the freedom to be as offensive a they see fit . real talent doesn not come from discipline yourself at first and it come from let it all hang out and runestone seem to have a preoccupation with be respectable . the monster be cool though represent at some point the film switch gear and transform itself from a da vinci code esquire thriller about ancient artifact and manuscript and talisman and glower white haired swede into a busy and loud and amusingly obnoxious monster movie . here we get to see norse god of war odin personify by a big rubber costume goon with glowing eye and cloven hoof and a head peak by a tangle of horn . if only the film hadn not exhaust my ability to understand what the point of it be by then . the gore be ultra low key and the nudity and sexual content more suggested and non male gaze orient than usual and and the hero be difficult to care about . the only real spark in the film that register in my brain be scene where resevoir dog lawrence tierney get to chew the scenery a a loud mouth clam head police captain between various killing and none of which inspire much dread and alarm or interest to be memorable . the highlander comparison come because the bulk of the film be set in new york city and involve large and open space townhouses that be so expensive to rent that the only people who can afford to make use of them be set designer for movie . and the use of medieval weapon like broadsword and battle ax and a good icy glare from beneath hood eyebrow . see alexander gudanov dress up like a nordic thomas dolby to battle this costume designer vision of odin do not provide much of a payoff and and the tail end of the film be fill with so many collapse townhouse floor that the movie become a sort of ironic commentary on and yes and the 9/11 wtc tower collapse and cause by the weakening of the support girder and the pankcaking floor fall one on top of the other . i do not see any puff of dust but be pretty sure that these floor collapse due to a control demolition so 9/11 truth conspiracy buff might want to check this film out to help your research into prove that bush blow up the tower . and if all else fail you can post screengrabs of odin with his eye all glow real demonic like and claim that they be non doctored picture of condoleeza rice . i think the bottom line here be that horror movie in general take a nose dive during the 1990s due to this frenzied rush to not offend anyone and which may explain why the sleazy euro horror year of the 1970s have prove to be so popular now on retrospect . runestone create nothing new and accomplished nothing notable and be probably only remember by the scattershot few who bother rent it a a home video release and perhaps yearn for the good old day when you could go out and rent three movie for $ 5 . 00 on a weeknight and watch them safe and secure knowing that your life with not be change by any of them and there will be three more just like it to check out the follow night and there will be no reason to ever watch any of them ever again and and your girlfriend would not be put off by gratuitous exploitational nudity or gross icky gore . heaven forbid . negative .