Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Whether it be films featuring crazy stunt folks like Deathcheaters, movies with lots of comical splatter and gore such as Body Melt, or post-apocalyptic road flicks involving homemade armored cars duking it out over a tank of juice such as Mad Max, the land down under never fails to […] […]
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Night of the Demons (2009)
Night of the Demons Angela Feld is having a hoppin’ Halloween party at a rundown mansion with a dark history in New Orleans. It’s a place where six house-guests mysteriously went missing one Halloween night over one hundred years ago. She’s invited a ton of people, but just as things are getting underway, the police […]
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
I Know What You Did Last Summer Well I’ll be diddly-damned, I didn’t know this was based off of a book. Amazing what you rediscover when you search the internet for poster pictures. I also completely forgot Anne Heche was in this. It really had been quite a while since I watched it. Anyway…. A […]
Read moreFreaky (2020) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Body swapping is a well known and often used plot device. As it literally involves two people (or more) switching bodies, it’s the ultimate method of forcing a character to live the life of someone else and learn to see the world from their point of view. The idea of two people directly exchanging bodies […]
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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 moreRelentless (1989) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
Cop movies can be a mixed bag. While the Hays Code forced us to always show law enforcement as the good guys, we immediately rebelled the instant we could. The 1960s and ’70s were rife with both good and bad police, sometimes in the same person, with the likes of films such as Dirty Harry, […]
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We Are What We Are (2013)
We Are What We Are The Parker’s are a reclusive family that likes to keep to themselves. During a time of torrential downpour, the family matriarch accidentally drowns while out running errands. The rest of the family is naturally devastated, but family tradition states that no matter the circumstances the Day of the Lamb must […]
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The Sadist (1963)
The Sadist The Sadist is the story of three high school teachers, Ed, Doris, and Carl who are on their way to a baseball game. On the way to the event, they run into a little car trouble and pull over at a nearby gas station/junkyard. After a quick inspection, Ed determines that they will […]
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Bloody New Year (1987)
Bloody New Year Six twenty-somethings trying to enjoy a fun weekend at a seaside community, end up running aground while on a boat excursion and find themselves stranded on an island. They manage to take refuge in a quaint little hotel, but quickly find themselves very confused. Despite being open, the hotel seems suspiciously deserted, […]
Read moreRussian Raid (2020) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
In 2011, Indonesia blessed us with one of the greatest action films of this millennium, The Raid, a masterclass in how to do close-quarters combat in a tight space under dire circumstances. For the uninitiated, it introduced new action stars and brought Pencak Silat to the forefront of martial arts cinema. It also did it […]
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