I’ve watched a lot of television over the years. When I was a kid, my summer schedule was just as likely to revolve around Gilligan’s Island reruns as it was whatever the latest Saturday morning cartoon hit happened to be. F-Troop, The X-Files, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Cheers, The Simpsons, The Munsters, Get Smart, […]
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The Chill Factor (1993)
The Chill Factor AKA: Demon Possessed Three couples are on a snowmobile vacation in Wisconsin. Two of them want to have a competition to see which one is the fastest, but don’t know where to race amongst all the rocky terrain. So a helpful diner owner directs them to an isolated, frozen over lake where […]
Read moreLast Shift (2014) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
If there is one thing horror movies have taught me (and there are many, many things horror movies have taught me), it’s to never be the last person inside anywhere. It’s not necessarily about being the first person out, but definitely do enough cardio and be willing to trip folks so you’re not the last. […]
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Dead Pit (1989)
The brilliant Dr. Colin Ramzi has turned fiendish, deciding that it makes more sense to use the patients at the mental hospital where he works as test subjects, rather than bothering to try and heal them. His colleague Dr. Swan disagrees, and the resulting showdown in the basement leaves Ramzi dead amongst his pile of […]
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Ghost Keeper (1981)
A group of friends decide to spend their New Years vacation up in the Canadian Rockies. Three members of the group splinter off from the rest to explore the local area on a couple of snowmobiles. While out on their little excursion they become stranded at a seemingly empty lodge they discovered off the beaten […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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 […] […]
Read moreDemonoid (1981) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
I really have to hand it to the artist, that movie poster is so much better than the actual film. I mean, I think I can finger a detail or two in there which isn’t in the film itself, but with so much going on, I bet you can put your thumb on it too. […]
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Debris (2015)
Royce, a down and out treasure hunter looking for a good score, thinks he’s found exactly what he’s looking for when he comes across a box on the beach that’s been washed up from the effects of the Tōhoku tsunami. Inside the locked and battered box, Royce finds an ancient Japanese sword forged by the […]
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