After the tragic death of his son and wife, a man obsessed with death discovers a spirit called an Asphyx, and plans to use it achieve immortality for him and his family so that he never has to loose someone he loves again.
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Leptirica (1973)
Young Strahinja just wants to be with his lady love, Radojka. But her father doesn’t approve, because he’s got no money. So Strahinja takes a job at the local mill. Unfortunately it’s besieged by a vampire. So now he has to stop the undead if he hopes to get married.
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Silent Scream (1979)
Silent Scream AKA: The Silent Scream Silent Scream is about a small group of collage students who rent rooms at a newly “we are now taking applications” Victoria boarding house at the beginning of the semester. Naturally, it doesn’t take long for people to start showing up in elegant, bloody piles. Silent Scream is a […]
Read moreThe Corpse Eaters (1974) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
The Corpse Eaters as a title has a double meaning: eating corpses and corpses that eat. Clever, Canada. The film begins with a flash forward to a funeral home, where the greedy love child of an alternate universe George Romero and Angus Scrimm accepts a late night body to be prepped for burial. He drives […] […]
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The Shout (1978)
Doctor Robert Graves heads to an insane asylum to help keep score of a cricket match the inmates are having. While there he’s introduced to the other scorekeeper of the match, patient Charles Crossley. Graves has already been informed that Crossley is considered an odd duck among odd ducks, even for someone housed in an […]
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The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Four paranormal investigators are contacted by an eccentric millionaire (of course) to find evidence of the existence of life after death in the famed Belasco mansion, the “Mount Everest of haunted houses”, nicknamed Hell House. It’s hard to tell how many people a house has knocked off just by looking at it. The group consists […]
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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 moreDeathcheaters (1976) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Australian stuntmen engage in covert missions, perform death-defying stunts, and drink and shag women whose names they don’t remember! Huh, the “stuntmen” part of that sentence seems redundant. Steve Hall and Rodney Cann are a couple of stuntmen working in the Australian film and TV industry in the 1970s. The two are undeniable thrill seekers, […] […]
Read moreThe Big Doll House (1971) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Yep, it’s a movie about beautiful, scantily-clad women stuck behind bars in a place run by sadists and supplied by two horny dudes who really need to find a better line of work. Not for their sake, for the prisoners. Collier is thrown into a prison in an unnamed tropical country for murder, where she […] […]
Read moreMoon of the Wolf (1972) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
No, Lon Chaney Jr. was not in this movie. I know that’s his kind of makeup in that terrible poster, but the actual werewolf is pretty much just a guy with a beard and black paint on his nose. Yeah, it’s gonna be one of those kinds of movies. Two farmers discover the mauled body […] […]
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