In 1969, America went to the moon. To top us, the British made a movie about aliens on the moon coming to us in 1967. I’m still thinking we got the better end of the bargain here, but I don’t blame the UK for trying! Meteors fall in formation in a field in the English […]
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A Haunting on Potter Street: The Potter Street Station (2012)
Steven ‘Prozak’ Shippy and his team of ghost sleuths investigate The Potter Street Station, also known as the East Saginaw station. Built in 1881 and officially closed in 1986, the old Potter Street Station claim to fame was that it was once the largest railway passenger depot in the state. Five years after an arson […]
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Scream 3 (2000)
After a couple of mundane death scenes (Hasta la vista, Cotton), we learn that Sidney’s paranoia has taken over her life and she has now completely isolated herself up in the mountains and is now living her life under an assumed name. Seriously? This is your choice for guard dog? Get a doberman. As with […]
Read moreSpace Truckers (1996) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Blue collar space movies are always a delight. Often times they’re full of working class Joes who are highly skilled at what they do but are not always the brightest when it comes to whatever terrible situation they find themselves getting into. Alien is the high mark, but the misfits of Dark Star, the non-astronauts […]
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Savage Weekend (1979)
AKA: The Killer Behind the Mask Marie, her boyfriend, her sister and two acquaintances, are off to the wilderness of upstate New York for the weekend. Marie’s recent ex husband has just been involved in a political scandal, and they all decided that the best course of action was to get away for a weekend […]
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Scream 2 (1997)
Sydney and company are trying to move on with their lives after the traumatic events and insta-fame inflicted upon them after the first movie. But once again, events from the past are coming up to bite them in the ass, in the form of a Ghostface wearing maniac wielding a knife. You mean I get […]
Read moreOmega Doom (1996) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
That image makes this movie feel way more Slavic than it actually is. Robots in movies! We all love robots in movies. There’s nothing quite like the near-constant whine of robotic joints and servos every single time one moves that makes us cringe and take icepicks to our ears. Seriously, whoever thought this was a […]
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The Shout (1978)
Doctor Robert Graves heads to an insane asylum to help keep score of a cricket match the inmates are having. While there he’s introduced to the other scorekeeper of the match, patient Charles Crossley. Graves has already been informed that Crossley is considered an odd duck among odd ducks, even for someone housed in an […]
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Scream (1996)
A young girl and her friends are stalked by a deranged killer in a ghost mask who likes to draw out their mental torture and suffering by calling them first and messing with their heads. Scream‘s legacy in the horror world at this point in time is now pretty undeniable. It succeeded so well, in […]
Read moreSaturn 3 (1980) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In the future, Earth sucks, so humans grow food throughout the solar system. Somehow, Kirk Douglas and Farrah Fawcett have ended up a couple working on one of these hydroponics stations on Saturn’s third moon, and Harvey Keitel is a crazy astronaut who effectively works as a delivery guy and installation tech. He’s basically the […] […]
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