thesar-2
I still don't know why I was hooked after even five minutes...This is one of those movies where the trivia and recommendation far outweighs the entertainment of the feature. For starters, I only just learned of this movie's existence yesterday when I was catching up on the podcast: Shockwaves, specifically episode 98. During that podcast's first half, the hosts discuss what they've seen in horror that past week. Here, they hilariously described this weird-ass 80s "comedy" horror.In an actual complex and incoherent script, during a small town fishing contest period of time, someone is killing off people for really a dumb reason with an incredibly odd choice of weapon that wouldn't work. I guess that's the part of comedy this was meant to be.Despite the hilarious recommendation from the Shockwaves guys and the aforementioned (hilarious and actually interesting) trivia on this, I can't extend a recommendation. Some scenes are, honestly, funny and I did laugh out loud a couple of times, but for the most part, this low-budget wannabe doesn't garner a single repeat watch from me. Going real fishing is absolutely more exciting.***Final thoughts: THAT all said, I highly recommend the Shockwaves podcast. Normally they don't all chime in at once and make me (and themselves) laugh out loud at the craziness of a movie, but this episode 98 was certainly a fun one.
mikey-242-435767
I rarely watch a 2 movie. But this one was so very bad that I stayed with it. My copy is an old VHS tape and that, alone, makes it horrible. Then the acting, script, insane situations, insane character interactions and so much more. It is just a total train wreck on every track.It is worth a watch if you are about half drunk and plan on making it all the way or high and want to watch a really so-bad-it's-funny movie.There actually is a plot. There is plot progression. Lots of people get killed and they work toward finding out who is behind all of it.Standard fare but in a very stupid way. Enjoy... or not.
BA_Harrison
A bunch of obnoxious out-of-towners at a Wisconsin fishing competition become catch of the day when a local war-veteran with a metal plate in his cranium is sent kill crazy by the combined frequencies of bad rock music and cicadas (!?!!?!). By casting a triple-hooked doohickey (I think that's the correct fishing term) with superhuman accuracy, the maniac skilfully 'lands' each victim before stringing their corpses together, ready for grinding up to feed to his minnows.With such a nasty method of dispatching victims, Blood Hook should be a wonderfully gory film, featuring plenty of gruesome make-up effects as the hooks tear at the victims' skin; however, the death scenes actually prove frustratingly tame, the hooks never shown puncturing the flesh, the actors simply smearing blood on their skin as they pretend (unconvincingly) to be pulled to their death. The only time we witness anything slightly graphic—the addition of a fresh corpse to the catch line—the effects are woefully unconvincing.With such pathetic gore, plus horrible characters, terrible dialogue, only the briefest smattering of nudity, a terribly uneven tone that makes one wonder whether this is supposed to be a comedy or a horror, and an inconclusive ending in which the killer appears to escape (unless I have matters confused, which is quite possible since I was really struggling to stay awake by the end), Blood Hook is a total waste of time—much like the inexplicably popular pastime of fishing!
wingedcobra
The movie starts with the typical group of guys and gals going somewhere for a vacation. In this case it is a big fishing tournament up North. The plot builds, and eventually, the party starts losing members to murder by a really big fish hook! The actor who plays the murderer is actually quite creepy. The story goes that the murderer had a mental plate in his head which makes him go crazy when he hears the bugs in the woods chirping loudly. The murderer eventually gets caught but not before pretty much everyone is dead.That is the movie folks. Now you do not have to waste your time watching it since I have wasted mine watching it for you.
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