In the post-apocalyptic future, zombies roam the Earth, Japanese women are either scantily clad bad asses or barely able to function with seemingly no in-between state, and there is still plenty of blond hair dye to keep your style sense fresh. All because a corporate scientist really wanted to play God. Thanks, science! Aya is […]
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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Rake (2015)
Psychiatrist, Dr. Benson, is treating a young, sedate woman, who is currently unable to talk due to a recent trauma. The girl, Audrey, doesn’t seem to respond to any outside stimuli, until Dr. Benson tells her that she, too, experienced the same thing that Audrey witnessed. With her patient’s permission, the Doctor puts Audrey under […]
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Bloody Wednesday (1988)
Harry is having a rough time of it. Due to some obvious mental instability that he is in complete denial of, he just lost his job as a mechanic, his marriage has fallen apart, and he’s lost his place to live. His brother covertly sets him up in an abandoned hotel one of his clients […]
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Slay Belles (2018)
Dahlia and Sadie are a pair of Youtubers calling themselves The Adventure Girls. What do they do? They go to various abandoned locations and film themselves roaming around. Knowing how much their buddy loves Christmas, they grab their friend Alexi and take her on their next trip with them up into the mountains to the […]
Read moreUncle Peckerhead (2020)— Movie Reviews by a Mook
I was never in a band growing up, but if I had been, I probably wouldn’t have found a weird monster to drive me around in a van. But if I had, I definitely would have written a song about it. Uncle Peckerhead is the tale of one such band, joyfully named Duh, that does […]
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Offerings (1989)
Little John Radley had a crappy childhood. He takes his frustrations out on his pets because his dad abandoned him, his mom is abusive and the neighborhood kids pick on him because he doesn’t talk. The only nice thing in his life seems to be his lone friend, Gretchen. But even Gretchen can’t save him […]
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
A string of women connected to a blackmail conspiracy are being brutally murdered in Rome. The killer is paralyzing his victims with specialized acupuncture needles before slicing open their stomachs while they can do nothing but helplessly watch. Now it’s up to Inspector Tellini to track down this mad murderer. Unfortunately for him, the killer […]
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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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Blind Woman’s Curse (1970)
During a rain-drenched showdown between two Yakuza factions, Akemi, the leader of one faction, inadvertently slices the eyes of an innocent woman trying to protect her relative. She looks down to see a cat lapping up the fallen woman’s blood before the feline attacks her, in an act that Akemi is convinced is the product […]
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