This was supposed to be a porno, but somewhere along the way, the director decided it should become a straight up horror movie. Yet the scariest thing about it is that the 1970s were full of bad taste. I’d rather it had stayed porn. A cult worshiping a doctor who might somehow be related to […]
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Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962)
AKA: Night of the Eagle Norman Taylor is a man of science. Norman is a new member of the faculty at a nearby college and very popular with the students. As a psychology professor he often gives lectures regarding the supernatural (Something they never did in my psychology class. The cheap bastards.) Of course, Norman […]
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One Dark Night (1983)
A mysterious recluse, Karl Raymar, is found dead one morning with six similarly deceased young women also in the room. After his burial in the mausoleum, Karl’s estranged daughter Olivia comes to learn that her absent father was well known to the world of mystics, having supposedly mastered the ability of telekinesis in an attempt to cheat death. Olivia learns that his supposed skill at such an art, and his obsession with immortality were considered so great, that he had supposedly learned to suck the life energy from living beings. But his apparent death by heart attack and his subsequent burial in a crypt seems to have disproven Karl’s great power….
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Harbinger (2016)
A man suffering from bizarre dreams follows the clues gleaned from his visions to a remote cabin. He’s hoping that he will somehow find a meaning behind his hellish nightmares, but he soon discovers that his dreams were probably better left buried.That many locks can’t be good….time to leave.Harbinger is a Lovecraftian inspired short film […]
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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 […]
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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Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things (1972)
Mean-spirited director, Alan, drags his small theater troupe off to an isolated island near Miami that’s been used as a cemetery for decades. No one in his rag-tag little troupe wants to be there, but Alan uses the near-constant threat of firing them to force them to play along with him. The game? Alan thinks it’ll be fun to use this old book of spells he bought to try to raise the dead from their graves.
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The Love Witch (2016)
Modern day witch, Elaine Parks, just wants to be loved. So she concocts a series of love potions and gives them to men she finds attractive in the hopes that they will fall in love with her. As a testament to her skill, Elaine’s potions work splendidly and the men she gives them to become […]
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Puppet Master 5: The Final Chapter (1994)
Puppet Master 5 began its task of trying to win me back over by opening with a scene that I suspect occurs to all horror movie survivors after the credits roll. By that I mean, having the police arrest the main character on suspicion of murder for all of the deaths that occurred in the previous film.
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Puppet Master 4 (1993)
Incredibly young (is he even out of High School?), Rick, is researching artificial intelligence at his lab in the Bodega Bay Inn as part of a study called the Omega Project. Though Rick has already discovered Blade, he is oblivious to Blade being alive or the puppets significance to his research. It isn’t until Rick friends Suzie, Laura and Cameron show up, and they all discover the old trunk belonging to Andre Toulon, that Rick figures out how Blade seems to magically appear in various places around the hotel.
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