Blood Hook

Blood Hook is a tour de force of understated film making and a master class in meta story telling. It has all the components you need to create an epic theater experience: blood, fish, hooks, cicadas, and muskies. I defy you to name a single film that brings all five of these essential cinematic elements together with such elan. No other film comes this close to capturing the horror and banality of upper-midwest competitive fishing. Don't listen to the chum, marvel for yourself at this genre defying documentary about the perils of mixing recreation with bad music and cicadas.

Saw this one when I was a kid, rented it from a mom and pop video store so when I found it on blu ray I was pumped. Took me back to younger days, fun and cheesy horror fick

Blood Hook is one of those movies where the plot is intentioally written for it to be a "bad" film - so much that it becomes a great Troma classic. It takes a great movie to become a classic. This is a GREAT B MOVIE! The fact that it's bad enough to never be released into mainstream theaters and only to Troma video is significant to its attractiveness. This movie could be coined as a cult classic that should be watched at parties or with friends. The acting is B-grade, as well as the plot and overall storyline. But what makes it great is that there are many comic-horror moments where the viewer will find themselves laughing or smiling in amusement at the movie's over-the-top attitude. So, for a fun but mediocre scared time, buy BLOOD HOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The extended version adds so much to the film. It also showcases Hayward Wisconsin a LOT more. Well worth the purchase.

A 21 year-old youth (Mark Jacobs) inherits his family’s cabin in remote northwestern Wisconsin and promptly brings four friends to check it out and have some vacation fun at the lake during an annual fishing contest. Unfortunately, the cicadas are out and someone has a mad habit of literally fishing for people!"Blood Hook" (1987) was shot in ’86 and only cost $200,000 by a director that went on to work for Mystery Science Theater 3000. As such, this is low-budget slasher with camp and a wink of humor.It comes across as a mixture of Tobe Hooper’s “Eaten Alive” (1976) and the forthcoming "State Park" (1988), aka "Heavy Metal Summer." While it’s better than Hooper’s flick in some ways, it’s not quite as entertaining as the latter. It’s like a tale from Steve Gerber’s Man-Thing comics of the 70s, just without a swamp monsterSara Hauser (Kiersten) stands out on the feminine front, although Sandy Meuwissen (Bev) is worth a mention. Meanwhile Lisa Jane Todd (Ann) is an interesting character.To appreciate this movie you have to be willing to give it a chance. If you do, there are quite a few rewarding bits despite its comic book tone and lack of funds, especially in the second half. For instance, some of the humor is genuinely amusing in a low-key way; plus you get to know the characters, like the half-crazed Vietnam vet (Bill Lowrie as Evelyn), the psychology major (Ann) and the main protagonist (who looks like Nicolas Cage in the mid-80s).What sets off the killer is actually quite creative, tying into diabolus in musica, aka "the devil in music,” which refers to the so-called devil’s chord or devil’s tritone. Meanwhile the gore effects are good all things considered.The film runs 1 hour, 51 minutes, but there’s a 92-minute version by Troma on disc (Blu-ray). It is true that the original version is too long by about 20 minutes, but I prefer it to the short rendition due to the character development.It was shot at Hayward & Hayward Lake, Wisconsin, which is located in the northwestern part of the state, about 40 miles south of western Lake Superior and 30 miles east of the border of Minnesota.GRADE: B-/C+

Love this flick !! It's a real hoot !!

We go to Spider Lake every year where the movie was filmed. I bought it for that reason and knew it would be "corny".

Terrible movie, but I had to buy it =) Good for the price!