Every time I hear the title of this film, I think of Evil Dead. I just can’t help myself. It immediately turns into a chorus of “Dead by dawn, dead by dawn!” And then it turns into a chorus of bloody violence. Though now having seen it, that’s no longer Evil Dead violence. Oh no, […]
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Haunted Dormitory: Marionette Teacher (2017)
A young student attending a rural school that just let out for holiday mysteriously goes missing one night. Her friends that are still at the school are baffled as to her disappearance. The only clue they can find is her beret found outside a forbidden and sealed off dorm room. Her friends can’t even figure out why she’d been near the area.
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The Babadook (2014)
Single, widowed mother Amelia is having some trouble. Her 6-year-old son, Sam, is becoming angry, violent and increasingly scared about monsters, going so far as to bring a homemade weapon to school. He’s having trouble sleeping and makes her check for monsters under the bed and in the closet every night before his bedtime story. […]
Read moreMoon of the Wolf (1972) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
No, Lon Chaney Jr. was not in this movie. I know that’s his kind of makeup in that terrible poster, but the actual werewolf is pretty much just a guy with a beard and black paint on his nose. Yeah, it’s gonna be one of those kinds of movies. Two farmers discover the mauled body […] […]
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Tumbbad (2018)
For as long as he can remember, Vinayak’s mother has cared for his grandmother, a mysterious old woman his father keeps hidden away in their remote home, who Vinayak has never seen and is told does nothing but sleep. After Vinayak’s supposedly wealthy father dies, his mother resolves to move away at once, but not […]
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The Troll Hunter (2010)
Troll Hunter is a docu-style horror drama (so shaky cam ahoy!) that follows a small group of three college journalists as they try to expose a rather shady individual whom they initially believe to be a bear poacher. What they find instead is a disillusioned troll hunter, mythological beings and a government conspiracy. I actually […]
Read moreOneChanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers (2008) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In the post-apocalyptic future, zombies roam the Earth, Japanese women are either scantily clad bad asses or barely able to function with seemingly no in-between state, and there is still plenty of blond hair dye to keep your style sense fresh. All because a corporate scientist really wanted to play God. Thanks, science! Aya is […]
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Shiver (2008)
AKA: Eskalofrio Santi is a lonely kid. He has a rare skin condition that causes him severe physical pain and sores if he’s exposed to too much sunlight. To try to give him a more normal life, Santi’s mother moves out of the city and relocates the family to an isolated village in the Spanish […]
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Phenomena (1985)
The daughter of a famous actor is sent off to a boarding school in remote Swiss city. While there Donald Pleasance informs her that she has psychic insect powers that enable her to communicate with the creepy crawlies of the world and she uses these powers to pursue a local serial killer who is slaughtering young woman in and around the school.
Read moreSakura Killers (1987) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
No, I don’t know why Shredder and the Terminator are hanging out back there in that poster. I also don’t know why the USA was stylized as a pseudo-swastika. And Contra has nothing to do with this. Yeah, it’s another bad ninja movie…which means it’s a great ninja movie. Ninjas attack rent-a-cops and steal a […] […]
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