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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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, […]
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Thankskilling 3 (2012)
Thankskilling 3 The evil, murderous fowl known as Turkie, returns to wreak havoc upon a new batch of unsuspecting strangers on his search to recover the last remaining copy of the infamous “Thankskilling 2”. On his quest, he has to contend with the wig-wearing creators of Thanksgiving Land, a crude rapping grandma, a robot with […]
Read moreDance of the Dead (2008) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
I didn’t go to my Senior Prom. School dances were never really my thing, despite having been to several, and I didn’t see much difference between a Homecoming versus a Prom. Why go to a place to grind, get drunk, and have awkward teenager sex under the watchful eye of an old guy nicknamed “Coach” […]
Read moreThe Corpse Eaters (1974) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
The Corpse Eaters as a title has a double meaning: eating corpses and corpses that eat. Clever, Canada. The film begins with a flash forward to a funeral home, where the greedy love child of an alternate universe George Romero and Angus Scrimm accepts a late night body to be prepped for burial. He drives […] […]
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Death Warmed Up (1984)
Dr. Archer Howell is determined to make humans immortal and believes he has the means and the knowledge to make it happen. His theories have already proven successful on mice, and he is now convinced the best way to further prove his hypothesis is by reanimating human corpses. Unfortunately for him, Professor Tucker thinks he’s […]
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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 […]
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Waxwork (1988)
Waxwork is a movie about six collage kids who go visit a wax museum one night and only a couple of them make it out alive. While walking to class one morning, friends China and Sarah are invited to a midnight premiere of a new wax museum that just opened and are told that they […]
Read moreThe Night Watchmen (2017) — Movie Reviews by a Mook
I can sum this movie up in two words: vampire clowns. Ok, it’s more than that, but ultimately, it’s vampire clowns. Do you hate vampires that act a lot like zombies? Do you hate clowns? If you said ‘Yes’ to either of those questions, you probably won’t like this movie. For the rest of us…do […]
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Dead Pit (1989)
The brilliant Dr. Colin Ramzi has turned fiendish, deciding that it makes more sense to use the patients at the mental hospital where he works as test subjects, rather than bothering to try and heal them. His colleague Dr. Swan disagrees, and the resulting showdown in the basement leaves Ramzi dead amongst his pile of […]
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