Ten years after a Halloween-related trauma, a man goes off the deep end one Halloween night and begins stalking an innocent rabble of victims who were just delivering a package to his house.
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The Ice Queen (2005)
A recently discovered humanoid creature from the Ice Age wakes up in a foul mood, causes an avalanche at a nearly empty ski resort, and then torments and hunts the handful of survivors.
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Bad Moon (1996)
A misguided man with a vicious case of lycanthropy puts his sister and nephew in mortal peril by parking his camper behind their house and chaining himself to a tree each night so that he doesn’t go on a bloody rampage. The family’s only defense is Thor, their overprotective German Sheppard, who clearly has a suspicion that the newcomer could be a serious threat to his happy home.
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Madhouse (1981)
Madhouse AKA: There Was A Little Girl Julia Sullivan is a beloved teacher at a school for the deaf in Savannah, Georgia. She’s kind, patient, and has a loving boyfriend named Sam, who just so happens to be a doctor. She’s basically got the kind of nice, calm, comfortable life that most people would envy. […]
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Alligator (1980)
When body parts start showing up in Chicago’s water treatment plant, Detective David Madison is tasked with investigating the grisly dismemberments. Based on the location of the body parts, the city is afraid there might be a killer on the loose stalking the sewers, so Madison and a young cohort traipse down into the muck and mud under the city in search of clues. Naturally, they’re expecting to find a human, but what they discover instead is a ginormous 36-foot long Alligator named Ramone with a serious case of the munchies. Perhaps predictably, nobody believes Madison’s claims of “an alligator did it!” when he comes back up from the sewers sans partner, but after a nosey newspaper reporter manages to get photographic evidence of the creature, not only is Madison vindicated, but the entire city kicks into high gear to try to figure out a way to stop the beast before it consumes anyone else.
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The Thing (2011)
The Thing American paleontologist Kate Lloyd is recruited by Dr. Halvorson to help him and his assistant investigate a groundbreaking discovery found near a Norwegian research station located in Antarctica. When they get there, they discover that the Norwegian’s have stumbled upon an ancient intact spacecraft buried in the ice that they theorize has been […]
Read moreDay of the Animals (1977) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
This movie is not to be confused with the never released Grizzly II. It may seem strange that the two get compared, but Day of the Animals and Grizzly both featured much of the same crew, including the same director and producer, as well as both actors Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel. Only instead of fighting a single giant bear […] […]
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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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Frankenweenie (2012)
The plot to Frankenweenie is deceptively simple: Boy loves dog. Dog loves boy. Dog dies tragically. Boy brings dog back to life. Neighbors remember being forced to read Frankenstein in High School and FREAK. Let’s be fair though, when your neighbors look like this “Mad Sciencing” shouldn’t be that much of a surprising hobby. I […]
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