A captain and his crew are on a rescue mission to the arctic to save his old friend, who they lost contact with two years ago. But instead of just fighting the cold, they wind up pitted against an unknown ancient evil as well.
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The Curse (1987)
The Curse The Curse is a 1987 film based on good ole horror master HP Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space. One night a mysterious, glowing meteor lands on the clearly financially suffering Hayes family farm. Of course, the first thing that happens, is someone decides to touch it. Oi. Their neighbor, Dr. Forbes, can’t […]
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Re-Animator (1986)
Re-Animator depicts a few short days in the life of Dan Cain, a medical student studying to be a brain surgeon at a local Miskatonic University. One day Dean Halsey introduces Dan to Herbert West, a new transfer student recently arrived from Switzerland, where he left under bizarre circumstances. West is a strange character; he’s […]
Read moreThe Endless (2017) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
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 […]
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The Strangeness (1985)
A small group consisting of scientists, explorers and journalists enter an old, previously closed off mineshaft to see if it’s suitable to resume mining. The mine had been closed off and sealed decades before, due to a series of suspicious deaths and very strange stories coming from the surviving minors. But a recent earthquake has […]
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Harbinger (2016)
A man suffering from bizarre dreams follows the clues gleaned from his visions to a remote cabin. He’s hoping that he will somehow find a meaning behind his hellish nightmares, but he soon discovers that his dreams were probably better left buried.That many locks can’t be good….time to leave.Harbinger is a Lovecraftian inspired short film […]
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The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)
Unnamable II picks up immediately after the events of the first movie. The police and paramedics take off with what remains of the Miskatonic students who were unfortunate enough to get trapped in the abandoned house. The only one left to their own devices is Randolph Carter, the student who managed to trap the demon […]
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The Unnamable (1988)
The Unnamable is the story of a group of college students. When Carter tells two of his friends about an very old town legend of some ‘unnamable’ creature lurking in a nearby home, his friend Joel doesn’t believe him. To prove his friends’ superstitious beliefs wrong, Joel decides to spend a night in the old […]
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Dagon (2001)
It’s a Spanish produced film! That means it counts for foreign film month! Paul and his girlfriend Barbara are on a boat vacationing with their friends Vikki and Howard. While near a small fishing town off the coast of Spain the boat gets caught in a sudden storm and winds up stuck amongst some jagged […]
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