Hook
2025·Horror·1h 18m
7.0
★
Driven by a hallucinogenic drug and a thirst for revenge, James Hook murders John Darling and loses his hand to Peter Pan. Eighteen years later, Wendy, now married to Peter, has a daughter, Lily. Lily discovers Hook is her biological father, leading her to a remote birthday retreat. Hook escapes prison and embarks on a killing spree, targeting Lily and her friends at the manor.
Directed by Andrea M. Catinella
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Cast
Kelly Rian Sanson
Lily
Stephen Staley
Hook
Charlotte Coleman
Wendy
Keith Eyles
Peter Pan
Tade Adebajo
Carly
Theresa Shangazhike
Noah
Jenny Miller
Jamie
Natasha Tosini
Salt
Alina Desmond
Pepper
Nichaela Farrell
Syd
Sophie Rankin
Young Wendy
Jay Robertson
Young Hook
Crew
Andrea M. Catinella
Director
Harrison Thomas Boxley
Writer
Stuart Alson
Executive Producer
Nicole Holland
Executive Producer
J.M. Barrie
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2 reviews
Skipp
2.0★ · 07/19/25
It’s come to my attention that the biggest workhorses in filmmaking right now might just be the ragtag group of b-movie horror producers in the UK. When Rhys Frake-Waterfield made the first Blood and Honey I don’t think he expected it to be such a widespread success, not only financially but in terms of impact. I’ve talked at lengths about the brith of public domain exploitation films in previous logs of other films, but what else has come to my attention is that this same group of b-movie filmmakers are starting to cannibalize themselves, and writer Harrison Thomas Boxley is the Hannibal Lecter of it all.
Boxley is a workhorse, indeed; the man has 27 writing credits to his name, and six of them are 2025 releases alone. Piglet is his rip on Blood and Honey. Mouse of Horrors and Mouseboat Massacre are spins on everyone else making Mickey Mouse horrors. Fairest of Them All is a Snow White rip. He’s not even the first to make a Popeye horror movie, something that’s so freshly in the public domain you would think with the quick turnaround that just maybe he could have done it. The newest of them all, Hook, is quite possibly trying to ride Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Do you sense a pattern here? At this point, with confusingly similar knockoffs sometimes using the same props, the same actors and even the same plot points it begs the question: are these films even fun anymore?
Fun should be the objective when it comes to these. You don’t come into one of these to reinvent film, not with one of these workrates, but when you’ve lost the plot on making these fun it’s almost disappointingly clear that these are cash grabs. Barring some daring move to inject some new excitement these will only get worse and worse. Whatever Blood and Honey did was novel, and it’s a shame no one else wants to stray from what that did.
But the film itself. Hook, a modern take on the Peter Pan story, has no Neverland. Tinkerbell doesn’t fly around. Pixie dust is a designer street drug. Onlyfans exists. And weirdest of all, Hook himself starts the film as an old looking white guy with dreads and then somehow deages after the time skip to the present. His hook is the wrong way. It’s as if only the names and very basic elements mattered and nothing else from Barrie’s story did; everyone is only here to die.
I could excuse it all a bit more if looked good, but it can’t even do that. Hook’s hook (still the wrong way) is grotesque but not even in a well-executed way. The makeup is visually caked on. The shots are competent, the sets are fine, and the camera work isn’t awful, but that is a low bar to have to be your film’s nicest production feat - and I wish there was more of an effort to make these films look good and be enjoyable.
For the one nice thing about this film that I can say: I liked Peter Pan’s actor and I hope he graduates to better projects. Otherwise, this is very much a skip skip skip. A waste of 78 minutes.
Boxley is a workhorse, indeed; the man has 27 writing credits to his name, and six of them are 2025 releases alone. Piglet is his rip on Blood and Honey. Mouse of Horrors and Mouseboat Massacre are spins on everyone else making Mickey Mouse horrors. Fairest of Them All is a Snow White rip. He’s not even the first to make a Popeye horror movie, something that’s so freshly in the public domain you would think with the quick turnaround that just maybe he could have done it. The newest of them all, Hook, is quite possibly trying to ride Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Do you sense a pattern here? At this point, with confusingly similar knockoffs sometimes using the same props, the same actors and even the same plot points it begs the question: are these films even fun anymore?
Fun should be the objective when it comes to these. You don’t come into one of these to reinvent film, not with one of these workrates, but when you’ve lost the plot on making these fun it’s almost disappointingly clear that these are cash grabs. Barring some daring move to inject some new excitement these will only get worse and worse. Whatever Blood and Honey did was novel, and it’s a shame no one else wants to stray from what that did.
But the film itself. Hook, a modern take on the Peter Pan story, has no Neverland. Tinkerbell doesn’t fly around. Pixie dust is a designer street drug. Onlyfans exists. And weirdest of all, Hook himself starts the film as an old looking white guy with dreads and then somehow deages after the time skip to the present. His hook is the wrong way. It’s as if only the names and very basic elements mattered and nothing else from Barrie’s story did; everyone is only here to die.
I could excuse it all a bit more if looked good, but it can’t even do that. Hook’s hook (still the wrong way) is grotesque but not even in a well-executed way. The makeup is visually caked on. The shots are competent, the sets are fine, and the camera work isn’t awful, but that is a low bar to have to be your film’s nicest production feat - and I wish there was more of an effort to make these films look good and be enjoyable.
For the one nice thing about this film that I can say: I liked Peter Pan’s actor and I hope he graduates to better projects. Otherwise, this is very much a skip skip skip. A waste of 78 minutes.
It’s come to my attention that the biggest workhorses in filmmaking right now might just be the ragtag group of b-movie horror producers in the UK. When Rhys Frake-Waterfield made the first Blood and Honey I don’t think he expected it to be such a widespread success, not only financially but in terms of impact. I’ve talked at lengths about the brith of public domain exploitation films in previous logs of other films, but what else has come to my attention is that this same group of b-movie filmmakers are starting to cannibalize themselves, and writer Harrison Thomas Boxley is the Hannibal Lecter of it all.
Boxley is a workhorse, indeed; the man has 27 writing credits to his name, and six of them are 2025 releases alone. Piglet is his rip on Blood and Honey. Mouse of Horrors and Mouseboat Massacre are spins on everyone else making Mickey Mouse horrors. Fairest of Them All is a Snow White rip. He’s not even the first to make a Popeye horror movie, something that’s so freshly in the public domain you would think with the quick turnaround that just maybe he could have done it. The newest of them all, Hook, is quite possibly trying to ride Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Do you sense a pattern here? At this point, with confusingly similar knockoffs sometimes using the same props, the same actors and even the same plot points it begs the question: are these films even fun anymore?
Fun should be the objective when it comes to these. You don’t come into one of these to reinvent film, not with one of these workrates, but when you’ve lost the plot on making these fun it’s almost disappointingly clear that these are cash grabs. Barring some daring move to inject some new excitement these will only get worse and worse. Whatever Blood and Honey did was novel, and it’s a shame no one else wants to stray from what that did.
But the film itself. Hook, a modern take on the Peter Pan story, has no Neverland. Tinkerbell doesn’t fly around. Pixie dust is a designer street drug. Onlyfans exists. And weirdest of all, Hook himself starts the film as an old looking white guy with dreads and then somehow deages after the time skip to the present. His hook is the wrong way. It’s as if only the names and very basic elements mattered and nothing else from Barrie’s story did; everyone is only here to die.
I could excuse it all a bit more if looked good, but it can’t even do that. Hook’s hook (still the wrong way) is grotesque but not even in a well-executed way. The makeup is visually caked on. The shots are competent, the sets are fine, and the camera work isn’t awful, but that is a low bar to have to be your film’s nicest production feat - and I wish there was more of an effort to make these films look good and be enjoyable.
For the one nice thing about this film that I can say: I liked Peter Pan’s actor and I hope he graduates to better projects. Otherwise, this is very much a skip skip skip. A waste of 78 minutes.
Boxley is a workhorse, indeed; the man has 27 writing credits to his name, and six of them are 2025 releases alone. Piglet is his rip on Blood and Honey. Mouse of Horrors and Mouseboat Massacre are spins on everyone else making Mickey Mouse horrors. Fairest of Them All is a Snow White rip. He’s not even the first to make a Popeye horror movie, something that’s so freshly in the public domain you would think with the quick turnaround that just maybe he could have done it. The newest of them all, Hook, is quite possibly trying to ride Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare. Do you sense a pattern here? At this point, with confusingly similar knockoffs sometimes using the same props, the same actors and even the same plot points it begs the question: are these films even fun anymore?
Fun should be the objective when it comes to these. You don’t come into one of these to reinvent film, not with one of these workrates, but when you’ve lost the plot on making these fun it’s almost disappointingly clear that these are cash grabs. Barring some daring move to inject some new excitement these will only get worse and worse. Whatever Blood and Honey did was novel, and it’s a shame no one else wants to stray from what that did.
But the film itself. Hook, a modern take on the Peter Pan story, has no Neverland. Tinkerbell doesn’t fly around. Pixie dust is a designer street drug. Onlyfans exists. And weirdest of all, Hook himself starts the film as an old looking white guy with dreads and then somehow deages after the time skip to the present. His hook is the wrong way. It’s as if only the names and very basic elements mattered and nothing else from Barrie’s story did; everyone is only here to die.
I could excuse it all a bit more if looked good, but it can’t even do that. Hook’s hook (still the wrong way) is grotesque but not even in a well-executed way. The makeup is visually caked on. The shots are competent, the sets are fine, and the camera work isn’t awful, but that is a low bar to have to be your film’s nicest production feat - and I wish there was more of an effort to make these films look good and be enjoyable.
For the one nice thing about this film that I can say: I liked Peter Pan’s actor and I hope he graduates to better projects. Otherwise, this is very much a skip skip skip. A waste of 78 minutes.
Mland60
2.0★ · 06/12/25
The best part of this movie was the “Freak Brothers” ad I got 27 minutes and 36 seconds into the movie (Freak Brothers is peak television trust me)
The best part of this movie was the “Freak Brothers” ad I got 27 minutes and 36 seconds into the movie (Freak Brothers is peak television trust me)