Blood Hook

I had not yet seen a slasher movie about fishing, so I was quite looking forward to this horror-comedy. Seeing it on a big screen at The Shockproof Film Festival gave necessary added value to this distinctive movie. It's a pretty incoherent spectacle with a comparatively rather crazy idea behind the killer's motivation, which in itself is quite a hilarious and an off the wall idea. The movie itself is illogical and goofy. The characters appear in the story and disappear again, according to the whims of the screenwriters. They behave irrationally, and in the second half, there are even a few explicitly "WTF" scenes, like when the main hero suddenly and inexplicably goes to bed at the point there should be the final confrontation with the killer which then continues as a whole scene the next day (I watched the extended 111-minute version, the shortened version certainly won't be as much fun). It's not non-stop fun-packed entertainment, but as B-movie semi-comedy nonsense, it's quite interesting. [The Shockproof Film Festival 2020] (11/03/2020)

It's hard to navigate a movie when "What the fuck is going on?!" is constantly going through your head throughout. With the live dubbing on this year's FOD, it was irresistible ("I can lend you a compass." "You're a compass."), but I'm afraid in any other setting it would have been unspeakable purgatory. Particularly with the insane one hundred and eleven minute director's cut, where the story itself is reduced to about 5% of the total running time, nothing can save you. (06/03/2020)