Groundhog Day. We have a strange love affair with this movie. We compare other movies to it, such as Happy Death Day being Groundhog Day as a slasher, Edge of Tomorrow being Groundhog Day an alien invasion war movie, Boss Level as a pure action take on Groundhog Day, and so on. It isn’t our […]
Read more
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
The House of Seven Corpses is about a film crew making a horror movie. Their chosen setting for the film is the Beale house, an old residence where seven Beale family members met with various gruesome (though not overly explicit) and untimely ends. It’s something you wouldn’t want your realtor to leave out of the […]
Read more
Waxwork (1988)
Waxwork is a movie about six collage kids who go visit a wax museum one night and only a couple of them make it out alive. While walking to class one morning, friends China and Sarah are invited to a midnight premiere of a new wax museum that just opened and are told that they […]
Read moreThe Night Watchmen (2017) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
I can sum this movie up in two words: vampire clowns. Ok, it’s more than that, but ultimately, it’s vampire clowns. Do you hate vampires that act a lot like zombies? Do you hate clowns? If you said ‘Yes’ to either of those questions, you probably won’t like this movie. For the rest of us…do […]
Read more
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
Ted and Laura Fletcher and their 12-year-old daughter Amy, have just moved into a once abandoned house near the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Ted’s working on a book about the area, and thought a more immersive experience would be helpful. The house is huge and just recently updated, and luckily for the family they got […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
In Dreams (1999)
Claire is a woman who has had strange, disjointed and prophetic dreams ever since she was a little girl. Up until recently, they’ve merely been a nuisance. But after a devastating personal tragedy, Claire’s dreams become more intense, even going so far as to break through while she’s awake. She’s convinced that the visions are […]
Read more
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….
Read more
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 more