Sakura Killers (1987) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
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 […] […]
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
After losing his job, the patriarch of the Katakuris family uses the money he received in his severance package and purchases an old, run down house, and then ropes the rest of his reluctant family into helping him turn it into a thriving bed and breakfast. The father bought the property knowing that a road […]
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Neverlake (2013)
Jenny, a young English woman, takes some time away from school to visit her father, Dr. Brooks, in Italy. Brooks is a former doctor turned archeologist, and his current obsession is the Lake of Idols, a lake previously worshipped by the ancient Etruscans and said to have held magical powers. While there she inadvertently discovers […]
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Lacey and Willy’s mother kicks them out of the house one evening so she can have a booty call with her creepily silent beau, who walks around in a wife beater and wearing women’s hosiery over his head that he refuses to take off (The movie credits refer to him as “The Lover”, but I […]
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Spirit Stalkers (2012)
Spirit Stalkers is about a group of ghost hunters with their own TV show called – wait for it – Spirit Stalkers. The goal of the show is simple: Find ghosts. The difference being that they actually try to come up with rational, scientific explanations for any phenomena they come across. Unfortunately, every time the […]
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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Don’t Go In The House (1979)
Donny Kohler is an unwell man. Any time Donny did anything wrong as a child, Donny’s domineering mother would punish him by holding his arms over a gas stove in an effort to “burn the sin out of him”. As a result, Donny is now detached, hearing voices and has developed an extraordinary hatred of women. His proclivities seem to be held in check until he comes home one night to find out that his mother has died. Now free of her influence, Donny lets loose and expels his pent up rage by luring unsuspecting women to his home, trapping them and then burning them alive.
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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, […]
Read moreThe Burrowers (2008) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Yeah, we’re going with another Weird Western, this time a fusion of horror and cowboy cinema which points out the terrifying trouble with western expansion, not just in terms of the racism but also the after effects of the ecological devastation that mass migration into unclaimed wilderness can bring. Also, there are monsters that puke. […] […]
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Death Ship (1980)
A cruise ship, on its voyage home, is rammed by an unknown vessel and destroyed during the night. The nine survivors lie adrift for a while in the vast ocean before coming upon a rusty old freighter that seems to appear out of nowhere. The survivors manage to board the ship, only to find it covered in cobwebs and suspiciously deserted.
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