Although I had never heard of 2004’s The River King, the DVD case piqued my interest when I saw it in the under-$5 bin at Walmart one day. I purchased the movie, but it sat on my shelf for a couple of years before I picked it up again when looking for something to watch. The case has piqued my interest once again. The movie hooked me within its first five minutes. While this was not a great movie, it was worth watching. The opening scene’s setting—a dead body discovered buried underneath a transparent sheet of ice in a narrow, winding river in the midst of a desolate forest in the depths of winter—was perfectly captured by director Nick Willing.

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