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Blood Hook (1987)

Blood Hook poster
Directed by
Jim Mallon
Genre
horror film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 32m
Rated
R
Rating
4.6 of 10 from 55 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A group of young people travel to a small Wisconsin town for a fishing festival. Meanwhile, people start disappearing and getting murdered.

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What happens

Blood Hook is a 1987 American slasher film directed by Jim Mallon and starring Mark Jacobs, Lisa Todd, Patrick Danz, Sara Hauser, and Christopher Whiting. It follows a group of young people who arrive in a small northern Wisconsin town during a fishing festival, where a series of bizarre disappearances and murders are occurring. It was distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film was premiered at the MIFED Film Market in October 1986. The film was truncated for its 1987 release after the Motion Picture Association of America threatened to grant the film an X rating due to its violent content. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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