It's the so-called Muskie Madness, a fishing contest and the lake is swarming with fishermen wanting to take home the big prize. Bad thing though is that there's also a psychotic serial killer who has decided to go on a killing spree during the festivities. He kills everyone off in a real "fishing kinda way". Can he be stopped, and how?
Blood Hook is somewhat like a typical 80's slasher movie, but done Troma style. But even though this movie is quite a bad one, it doesn't feel as Troma as most of their other releases.
So this is a movie about fishing, that's fishing for humans. A really cool concept one would think, sorry to say though that it's not as good as it may sound.
When watching Blood Hook for the first time many years ago, I remember being really disappointed, thinking this would be a gory flick. Let me tell you, it's not.
 
Watching it again just a couple of years ago I thought it was a little better. That is the whole fishing thing going on and some of the humour. Although in the end, it's not a very good movie at all.
There's not very much to the actual story. It's just a typical set-up for some slashing and add to that the fishing theme and there you have it. Unfortunately the killings aren't that cool to begin with, they could have done so much more with that.
If you want a few cheap laughs, are in the mood for a unserious flick and get a kick out of fishing then you might have something here.
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MOVIE YEAR: 1987
DIRECTOR: Jim Mallon
WRITING CREDITS: Larry Edgerton, John Galligan
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Lisa Todd, Patrick Danz, Mark Jacobs
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 85 min
RATING: 3/10
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