One rather unassuming mansion at the edge of town ruins three separate Christmas Eve’s in the town of East Willard Massachusetts, either with accidental deaths or acts of mass murder. Naturally, the town kind of thinks it’s cursed.
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Hard Candy (2005)
30-some-odd-year-old Jeff thinks he’s convinced 14-year-old Hayley to come over to his house where they’ll be able to have a “good time.” But Hayley’s not the innocent, naive little morsel he thought she was, and she’s got her own special plans in mind to punish ole’ Jeff for his illegal indiscretions.
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Mom (1991)
Mom Emily Dwyer is a kindly old widow living in Los Angeles whose children are all grown up. Looking for a little companionship, and really just someone else to talk to, Emily offers one of her spare rooms for rent. Enter Nestor, a soft-spoken blind drifter, who claims he’s just looking for a place to […]
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Pumpkinhead (1988)
Pumpkinhead Ed Harley is a widowed father who owns a small general store out in the country. While Ed’s busy running his day to day business, he gets some new customers one evening: a group of city kids who are out in the area to stay at their friends cabin and do a little camping. […]
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The Stepfather (2009)
The Stepfather Micheal Harding has just returned home after a stint in military school. But when he gets there he finds that his mom Susan has just gotten engaged to David Harris, a man she’s known for only a few weeks. Micheal is understandably quite leery of this new guy who’s just waltzed into his […]
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Eye See You (2002)
Eye See You AKA: D-Tox Agent Jake Malloy is on the trail of a ruthless serial killer who likes to play games with his victims. Malloy boasts that he’s close to catching him, but when the murderer kills Malloy’s friend, and then his girlfriend, right under the agent’s nose, not even the killer’s death can […]
Read moreThe Mask of Dimitrios (1944) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
You know what’s great? Travel movies. The kind of film where folks move from city to city, country to country, enjoying the sights, talking with the locals, researching people they don’t know, getting involved in sordid tales of crime, espionage, murder, and eventually ending the matter in a filthy, condemned apartment in Paris with a […]
Read moreKilling American Style (1990) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
The title in this film comes from a line where a Japanese doctor says he cannot use a shotgun and will kill his enemies in “Japanese style,” to which our overly-muscled hero with flowing locks replies while holding a pistol that he’ll do his killing in “American style.” Nice. Robert Z’Dar is a criminal named […] […]
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Night Train Murders (1975)
Two teenage girls attending school in Germany are taking the train to Italy to spend Christmas with one of the girl’s parents. On the way there they encounter a pair of annoying thugs who grow more aggressive as the trip continues. When the train is forced to stop at a station, the girls take the opportunity to switch trains hoping that it’ll give them a quieter, more pleasant experience.
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The Love Witch (2016)
Modern day witch, Elaine Parks, just wants to be loved. So she concocts a series of love potions and gives them to men she finds attractive in the hopes that they will fall in love with her. As a testament to her skill, Elaine’s potions work splendidly and the men she gives them to become […]
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