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 […] […]
Read moreAlien Raiders (2008) – Movie Reviews by a Mook
Alien parasitic plagues in a grocery store? Why that could never happen in America! Except for, you know, COVID and all that. You know what, suddenly this movie is feeling like it thinks we’re smarter than we are… In a small town in the middle of nowhere, a team of heavily armed criminals arrive at […]
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Big Bad Wolf (2006)
Somewhere in the jungle of Cameroon, a man shoots and wounds a wild beast after the creature kills most of his hunting party, including his brother. Several years later, the mans nephew, Derek, is trying to get in with a local fraternity and invites two of it’s members, their girlfriends and his best friend Sam, […]
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Grave Encounters 2 (2012)
Several years after the events of the first film, the footage filmed of the last episode of Grave Encounters cast has been turned into a movie. Some fans of the film (well, really one obsessive fan and his unwitting friends) head off to the hospital to see if the events of the film really happened […]
Read moreBlastfighter (1984)— Movie Reviews by a Mook
This time, the movie poster definitely captures some of what happens, like vehicle explosions. For a mix of hixploitation and revenge cinema set in the woods, there are a surprising number of cars and trucks that get blown up. Yet there is only one rainstorm and no lightning, so I feel a little let down. […]
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Scared to Death (1980)
A series of very strange deaths are occuring in Los Angeles and the police are completely baffled. Not only is the killer violently prolific, but they also seem to exhibit feats of super strength, at one point retching a car door right off its hinges.
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Grave Encounters (2011)
For the sixth episode of their TV show, the cast of Grave Encounters has themselves locked in a decayed insane asylum with a violent past. They go in hoping to catch some footage of paranormal activity and- Praise the Specters!- luck is on their side. The only problem is, they may not make it out […]
Read moreThe Minion (1998) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
At the end of the last millennium, Dolph Lundgren acted in an action supernatural horror movie about the oncoming apocalypse. Surprisingly, this was done in 1998, the year before Arnold Schwarzenegger would release his own action supernatural horror movie End of Days. Of course, there are some similarities between the two, both involving fighting the forces […] […]
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Robo Vampire (1988)
A gunned down narcotics agent is given a second lease on life when he’s brought back from the dead as a near-indestructible cyborg. Robot Warrior’s first mission? To rescue Sophie, an undercover agent who’s been captured by the henchmen of Mr. Young, a notorious drug lord who’s newest plan for drug smuggling is to enslave […]
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The Forgotten (2020)
Three knights are traveling back home after a long journey, and are less than a day’s trek to their destination. But on a stopover in the forest they come across a long forgotten enemy. Alone and outnumbered, they must fight their way to freedom if they hope to make it out alive.The Forgotten is a […]
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