Blood Hook

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Chargers Productions/Rated R </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director............James Mallon</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Larry Edgertton & John Galligan</B></div> <div> <B>Music...............Thomas A. Maumas</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........David Herbert</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producer.....Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz</B></div> <div> <B>Special Makeup by Dale Kuipers & James Suthers</B></div> <div> <B>Story by Gail Anderson & David Herbert </B></div> <div> <B>         & James Mallon & Dougleas Read</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>Peter Von Cleese..Mark Jacobs</B></div> <div> <B>Ann...............Lisa Todd</B></div> <div> <B>Rodney............Patrick Danz</B></div> <div> <B>Kiersten..........Sara Houston</B></div> <div> <B>Finner............Christopher Whiting</B></div> <div> <B>Leroy Leutke......Don Winters</B></div> <div> <B>Wayne Doerst......Paul Drake (Midnight Cabaret)</B></div> <div> <B>Evelyn Doersst....Bell Lowrie</B></div> <div> <B>Bev D.............Sandy Mouwissan</B></div> <div> <B>Denny Dobyns......Dale Dunham</B></div> <div> <B>The Sheriff.......Paul Heckman</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Critique</B><B>: Who is the perpetrator of the hook killings? The suspicious and manic behaviour of generations of Muskie fishing war veterans is tediously played into a Whodunnit with no clues and no detectives. When it becomes clear that the sheriff would never go after the killer, plausibility and plot are out the window. Which of the war-traumatized are commiting the murders? If the film had been better constructed we might care, but this is a tedious mess, and, not unlike the sheriff, the viewer is inclined not to care who dies nor who is responsible. The relationship chit-chat like Bev's psychoanalysis of the killer are a drag (fisherman's joke). The occasional attempts to rise out of the Minnesota muck of a truly crummy movie fail. Exceptionally low production values. Poor acting. Cheap Cheap Cheap. Reel boring. While it is true that members of the pike family will eat anything that moves, none of the actors in this film qualify.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Plot Summary</B><B>: A man is fishing with his grandson, listening to music as he casts. Something overcomes him and he falls into the water. Perhaps it was an heart attack. Next a group of basic young horror movie men and women packed into a land rover head out into the woods. A family in their mobile home complains to a local, Mr. Leutke, that there's no signs. Although he's helpful, they are pretty testy. As they leave, Leutke warns them that although fishing's okay, they've got to treat the water with respect. Sounds like a horror movie warning. The youths arrive at the muskie madness fishing contest. Our man beats Denny, the local hero in an informal contest. Bell, the hostess, gives them caps and seems taken by him. One of the others is accosted by someone over his boombox. A vet raves to them as they arrive at the house. The boom box guy was the grandson in the opening scene. The area is quite depressed, as everyone is out of work. The house overlooks the lake with no neighbors. He thinks back to the day his grandfather fell in. The annoying family eats at a bourgeois restaurant. The young group is unimpressed. The annoying mother of the family leaves after a spat and heads off to the dock and starts blowing a whistle. She is hooked into the lake. Our man watches but doesn't tell anyone about the event. Denny, the muskie-pro has a large fish growing in his tank, which is how he repeatedly breaks his own record. A neighbor finds out and sends the fish on its way. Peter thinks he was hallucinating when he saw the woman hooked into the water. Anne says that should go to the police. Denny finds out that his fish has been let out and is predictably angry. The fishermen immediately pull a 40 pounder out and Belle invites them to breakfast. Later, Belle, a jogger, is out working with some dumbbells when something hooks her kid but it only cuts him. The local sourpuss anti-music guy, Mr. Durse, was the one who foiled Denny's trick. The music mad punk with the lure ear ring tells Durse about the big muskie catch and he gets all the more furious. The punk goes to Leutke's place and Leutke tells him that he and Durse had a falling out over a big fish. There was a shooting--Van Cleese was shot by the bullet that they'd used to shoot muskie with. (he'd dig out the bullet each time) The punk, Rodney, first bugs Denny with his motorboat and then goes and turns on rock music in the middle of the lake. A hook lands in his boat, he lays on it and is pulled into the water. Finner is manic depressive. An M16 cartridge is found in the punk's boat. They go to Ivan's shack but he has a whittled gun, not usable. Durse is now very angry at the family who almost back into him with their boat. Ditsy Kristin floats out into the water to rock and roll music. A lure falls near her innertube and then she is apparently hit. Cut to Durse who has something big in a plastic bag. Bev and the fisherman appear to have more than athletics in mind after their jog. Leutke had been in Korea. The kid notices there's metal in his heads. He takes the crummy kid home. The father of the family is caught out on the lake. Anne and Peter talk about their relationship a lot. It's pretty annoying. Fenner sees Bev with crazy Ivan. Bev does some late night swimming to music, which turns out to be a bloody bad idea. Soon Finner is out fishing to music and the killer gets an earful from him as well. hooking the rope into Fenner's mouth is pretty gruesome. Pretty soon parts are chopped up and put through the grinder. Kirstin comes up out of the water having survived her ordeal. Peter looks around and finds Finner's ear. The killer pulls up a string of bodies tied on to a fishing rope. Quite a catch. He clearly has the best string of catches. Peter, who has studied classical music says that during the middle ages the tritone was thought to drive people crazy. The devil's tritone mixed with the cicadas sets off the killer. Ivan says that in Nam you could hear frequencies resonating off people. Supposedly the sheriff would not touch the killer. The cicadas start up as Ann is out on the dock meditating to music. They find the pails of gore and Bev's wedding ring. It looks like it's all over as someone rows toward her in the darkness. On come the rubber gloves and the killer casts. The hooks catch her on the wrist but she cuts the line and hurries away. She signals the lift to take her up the hill and it descends agonizingly slowly. The killer paddles into view and he sets up another cast. It doesn't look good for Anne as she stands there rather than dodging the cast. Ivan and Peter decide on a plan to get the killer. The kid found the lucky bullet at the killer's. But how did the kid know that was the bullet? They set up a bait for the killer using the boom box. Anne tries to sweet talk the killer into giving her up she attempts some impromptu psychological analysis all of which would appear to leave the killer cold. The killer wins the muskie catching contest. He's been using the meat of his victims as bait. Peter decides to take on the killer with a hook. The perfect revenge. The old timer on their side teaches him how to cast in one day. That night the music and cicadas begin and the killer is driven crazy. Peter is hooked but in turn hooks the killer. The killer hauls in Peter and begins stroping his knife. But Peter awakens and turns the music on.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>