Hook 2025 Film Review

It's pretty clear right now that the trend of turning kids characters into horror villains is never going to die. However the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today is actually doing something different by having the main villain of a kids story also be the main villain of this film and so then join me as I review the film that has the same title as a Robin Williams film with the film in question being called simply just "Hook" enjoy.

The plot of this film is eighteen years after he first attacked her mother Wendy her daughter and her friends now find themselves at the of James Hook. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad but at the same time tho this films plot wasn't all that good either a while the plot of the film is somewhat new and fresh you can tell right away that this film is going to be nothing more then a knockoff of Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare just due to the fact that both films do follow very similar plot beats with the main difference being that that film actually committed to the fact that it was horror version of Peter Pan and thus the plot of the film was alot more fun to watch where as with this film because of the fact that this film just plays every aspect of it's plot straight it can't be as fun as a film like this should be with the film being more focused on who Wendy's daughter's father actually is then it is in giving us a decently written plot with alot of this films plot just feeling rushed and undercooked which might be due to the seriously bad editing as the idea alone is a decent idea but plot just can't live up to that idea as alot of the films main plot is undercooked with the film just dropping the main plot of the film as and when it pleases with the plot of this film also not really being really rather entertaining and nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kelly Rian Sanson as Lily , Temi Adebajo as Carly and Charlotte Jackson Coleman as Wendy. Also starring in this film is Tim Cullingworth-Hudson as Officer Fabian , Alina Desmond as Pepper , Keith Eyles as Peter Pan , Nichaela Farrell as Syd , LJ Hamilton as Officer Spitz , Lucas Livesey as Officer Marco , Jenny Miller as Jamie , Sophie Rankin as Young Wendy , Jay Robertson as Young Hook , Theresa Shangazhike as Noah , Natasha Tosini as Salt and Stephen Staley as Hook.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty just as bad as you'd think that it would be. As yeah this films acting is not only bad but it's laughably bad which is of no fault of the films actors as all of them are indeed trying there best to make this films script work for them but due to the bad direction that there getting they just can't do it with it being made clear as day that this films director Andrea M. Catinella has absolutely no idea how to get a good performance out of her actors as alot of this films actors have turned in some solid performances in other films and yet in this film it just feels like there talents are being wasted as the films director has no idea what she's doing which does lead to all of this films actors feeling unsure of what kind of performance to give with the only three passable actors in this film being Natasha Tosini , Kelly Rian Sanson and Stephen Staley and that's really it as the rest of this films just don't feel like that there actually trying to turn in a good performance whereas with those three actors you can at the very least tell that there trying to turn in a good performance with the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this film does fair somewhat better as while the films characters are the same kinds of characters that you do usually find in these films. The film does at the very least try to do something new with them just by having Lily be this character who is questioning why her parents lied to her over who her father is which does lead to a big issue as none of this films characters are all that interesting as while Peter Pan and Wendy being married is a good idea as is the idea of Wendy' being Hook's ex-girlfriend which is a unique idea the film does nothing with either idea thus making it feel like something that was added in at the last minuet with the same thing also being true for Lily's friends as none of them add anything to the plot of the with alot of them just being there just so Hook has more bodies to kill and that's really with and heck the film even goes out of it's way to make sure that the characters that you liked in the original Peter Pan book and Disney film are so unlikable and so unlike themselves that they might as well be different characters all together as while hiding the truth from Lily about her father being Hook does make sense for Wendy to do what doesn't make sense was for the character to be this heartless person as she tells her daughter to understand where she's coming from when she tells her that Peter a person who Lily believed to be father wasn't her biological father which just seems out of character even for this films version of Wendy and it's like for all of this films characters with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film thought that they could just make it a Peter Pan horror film with the title of a Robin Williams film and nobody would care when all they had to do was give us good and well written characters.

Look to be blunt this film feels like a knockoff of two films those being Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare and oddly enough I Know What You Did Last Summer. As while the film doe take the slightly more grounded approach to the story that Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare took with the only real difference being the fact that Hook is now the villain and it rips off I Know What You Did Last Summer by having Hook himself look like the killer form those movies only with out the hooded coat and the fact that Hook is burnt in this film which just doesn't make sense and it makes August Bound Productions seem more like The Asylum of the horror world as there ripping off two movies all the while passing it off as there own when surely coming up with an original take would not only be alot more creative but also help your film in the long run but given that this film was written by Harry Boxley who of course wrote Fairest Of Them All amongst other horror movies for the studio doing something new and creative was never going to be the case as there are so many ways that you could have done this film as you could have leaned into the fantasy aspect by having Hook be this figure from another world that for one reason or another finds himself compelled to kill people on this world which yes is a terrible idea but it's at the very least a new way to take these characters and do something new and interesting with them and while there are some good idea's in Harry Boxley's script as there all in alot of his scripts there just not allowed to breathe and given the time that they need to become great ideas that other horror writers could then use as he instead just mainly sticks to what worked in the past without realizing what it was that made those ideas good in the first place.

Much like they did with Fairest Of Them All August Bound Productions the production company behind both this film and Fairest Of Them All amongst many others decided to drop this film in it's entirety for free on CineNet's Youtube Channel. Which again begs the question of why they are doing that as that's not going to be making them any kind of money whatsoever regardless of who they sold the streaming rights to which granted might help cover alot of this films really small budget but it won't cause them to turn a profit as this is something that will kill them off granted it will be a slow and painful death but it will still be a death nonetheless where as if they released this film direct to DVD as that way the do still have a chance of not only making back there money but also making a small profit where as by releasing the movie on Youtube there not going to make a profit as nobody is going to pay to watch a movie on a streaming service when they can just go onto Youtube and watch the full thing for free and yet given that they have a solid partnership going with ITN Studios it would make more sense for them to release the movie onto a streaming service like BritBox for example as then ITN can say that it's a BritBox exclusive film but given that August Bound Productions doesn't even have an official website with the only being a website for there founder Rene August it's highly doubtful that there ready to make films that people will actually like and are instead more focused on churning these kinds of terrible films that they can unload this film for free onto Youtube which is something that will only do more harm to them as a production company then it will good.

There are two major things that are working overtime in working against this film the first is the dreadful at best and down right not there at worst sound effects and the second is the editing. With this films being editing being so bad as they cut off characters mid-scene for no reason which for alot of the dialog scenes is fair enough as then it could be seen as being a pacing issue but then they also do the exact same thing for quite literally all of this films kills baring in mind that this film is meant to be a slasher film and therefor we the audience expect to see the actual kills however the makers of this film instead thought that they knew better then that and so they either cut away from the kill just as the killing blow is about to be delivered or they straight up start the scene with the kill already in progress where they then also decide to cut the scene off just before the kill with this being such a painful thing to see as it makes the film not only look unprofessional but also unfinished almost like they couldn't spare an extra few minuets to finish off filming any of this films kills and so they just end the scene before the kill takes place and hoped that no one would notice without realizing of course that you come into a slasher film expecting to see the kills and as for the films sound effects they are just as bad if not worse then the ones that where in They Call Her Death as at the very least you could actually hear the sound effects in that movie where as with this film you don't even get that which just adds to the overall cheapness of this film as even the worst films out there still have sound effects that you can actually hear in them where as with this film it's the opposite that's true with these being one of the many things that are just flat out wrong with this film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twelve minuets and thirty seconds. Which even for one of these horror films is such amount of time but given that this film barely has enough plot there to cover that amount of running time maybe it's best that this film is barely over one hour and twelve minuets long as the film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film isn't fully developed at all with the plot of the film being at best wafer thin due to the fact that the film spends just as much time on the Lily's father subplot then it does the main plot with the two plots inly really coming together in the films hastily done third act with the film not even taking the time to fully develop quite literally any of it's characters as while we do get to find why Hook is the main villain in this film with him being a an ex-boyfriend of Wendy who went psycho after she dumped him for Peter with him even killing of her brother Jon and friend Tiger Lilly we don't however get to find out quite literally anything about the rest of the main characters with one of them even spending alot of the films running time asleep in bed but you don't notice her not because the rest of the film is so good but because of the fact that the rest of the film is so bad that you just forget all about her with it being clear as day that the only way to truly fix any of this films problems is so go and do a page one re-write of the films script and to get a much more better editor and director as the ones that this films has clearly have no idea just what it is that there doing but I really will admit that this film really does have some really bad pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is  slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty bad. As due to the films dreadful editing which makes all of the bloodless kills in Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood look good as at least then you get to actually see alot of the kills even if they do appear with out blood alot of the time here you don't get that which makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose to make a slasher film if they were never ever going to show you any of the kills as that is the one thing that the people who watch slasher films come to see with it for once being hard to hard chose just what the best kill of the film even is as the film doesn't actually show us alot of the films kills and that ones that do get shown have really dreadful sound effects to them that make the kill look alot less impactful as the film doesn't even show Hook himself getting killed off at the end of the film with the film getting to Peter Pan just as Lily delivers the final blow which only adds to the overall lame factor of this film as the one thing that the people who love slasher films want to see in there slasher films is the main killer getting killed off and yet this film doesn't even bother to do that for quite literally no reason whatsoever which just makes this film so much more worse then what it already with it seeming like that the director of this film just hates slasher films as she takes every chance that she gets to show us anything other then the films kills when the films kills are something that could have been this films one and truly only saving grace is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out of the two Peter Pan based horror films that are out there right now this one is quite easily the worst one as there was actual effort put into Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare with that film even showing us the kills where as with this film there's no effort put into it whatsoever with it just being a cliche ridden mess of a film that will be forgotten about the horror community five minuets after they've watched it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very very review and a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 0 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all o the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare Film SPOILER FILLED Film Review

For some weird reason Hollywood is really liking the idea of turning beloved children's characters into horror villains with us getting at the very least three more of those types of horror films this year alone. With the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today being the latest in the Twisted Childhood Universe of films but what sets this film apart from all of the others in this new found genre of horror is that it's ital character HASN'T just entered the public domain as he's always been in the public domain for many decades now which really makes it weird that it's taken all of these decades for the character to be the star of a horror film and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the film should have been alot better with the film in question being called simply just "Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when her young brother Michael is kidnapped it's up to Wendy Darling to find him and stop his kidnapper Peter Pan from taking more kids to Neverland. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually feature / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not the best but it's also not that bad of a plotline either as it's pretty much the exact same type of plot that you'd expect from a Peter Pan based horror film and yet at the same time this films plot lacks alot of magic and wonder that really would have made it not only stand out from all of the horror films out there but it also would have made it more in line with the original book as well as the original book was a dark book and yet by playing it as safely as they do it robs the film of having a plot that can truly turn the tale of Peter Pan on it's head because it's to busy trying to be a mature and adult version of the Disney film rather then telling a good and scary story in it's own right and yet if this films plot had alot of magic and wonder put into it then it not only could have been the most straight forward adaptation of the book in terms of tone but it also would have made the plot of the film more creepier as well but it also would have felt slightly out of line with the other films in this universe as well as they take a more realistic approach to there characters where s this one would need to be a full on fantasy horror film with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Martin Portlock as Peter Pan , Megan Placito as Wendy Darling and Kit Green as Tinker Bell. Also starring in this film is Peter DeSouza-Feighoney as Michael Darling , Charity Kase as Captain James Hook , Teresa Banham as Mary Darling , Campbell Wallace as John Darling , Hardy Yusuf as Joey , Kelly Rian Sanson as Mia , Nicholas Woodeson as Steven , Kierston Wareing as Roxy and Olumide Olorunfemi as Tiger Lily.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However at the same time tho the acting in these Twisted Childhood Universe films has never been all that great and that is something that does continue in this film as this films actors give performances that you'd expect to see in a made for TV movie which is something that does make sense as alot of them are very little to unknown actors and as such it really would be foolish to expect great performances in this film even with this films producer , writer and director Scott Jeffrey who played Christopher Robin in Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey 2 who is a solid actor not really making for that good of a director which does make sense as this was the first film that he directed and as such he doesn't quite know how to get a good performance out of his actors just yet but he does show promise in that department with this films acting being on par with the first Blood And Honey film rather then the second one interms of acting quality with this films acting not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does lower the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

If there's one thing that this film gets right it's the fact that they made Peter Pan himself a creepy character. As even in the Disney film they made him look pretty creepy in certain and all this film did was make him alot more creep then what he already is but at the same time tho his creepy look really doesn't work with how he tries to get the kids to come with him as all that does is make him look insane and it makes the kids that do fall for him seem dumb as he's obviously a creepy looking person who's not to be trusted and yet alot of the kids and even Tinkerbell really trust him in this film and while that might work if he had a less creepy look to him and was written a bit less creepy as well given how he looks and how he's written it doesn't quite work which makes it feel like the that the makers of the film were banking on the fact that it's a Peter Pan horror film and using that idea to sell tickets and hoping that that will be enough to get people to like the film instead of giving us a well thought out character who can still be creepy but where it's understandable as to why these kids would fall for him and his charms in the first place which is something that would help to make the film a much more better and well thought out film but as it is the character of Peter Pan just isn't that well written despite the fact that the idea behind the character is a really solid idea it just needed more of a push in the right direction to make it a great idea.

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This film borrows some imagery from other and quite frankly better horror films with even the first shot that we see of Peter being eerily similar to Pennywise trying to temp to Georgie in the first IT film or even the Evil Dead for that matter. With the film having alot of scenes that are like this with there straight being scenes that remind of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and other horror films as well and all that does is remind you that you could be watching some much more better films and while it's great to tip your hat to other horror films you also want to make sure that your film is just as good and that those references or influences aren't to distracting which is sadly what they were here and yet while the film does make nods to those films it doesn't understand what it was that made them great in there original films in the first as Pennywise in the nineties IT film was a genuinely good clown and he used that to lure his kids in where as here Peter is to creepy to lure in kids despite him putting on cheery face and he's not the type of character that would suffocate someone but Sheriff Hoyt is due to his military background and so he would suffocate people to get the information that he needs out of them where as Peter doesn't have anything that he needs to get out of people and so it makes no sense for him to be doing something like that to people as that's not in his character to do so with it coming across as the makers of this film just threw in those visual nods to other horror films in the hopes that it would distract us the audience from what's going on on screen without realizing that all it's doing to taking people out of the movie.

Peter Pan is a character that's been in the public domain for quite literally decades as his original author J. M. Barrie gave up his right to characters to a childrens hospice decades ago. As such it is something that really does make you wonder why it's taken until now or there to be a Peter Pan based horror film as while yes doing horror films based off of popular children's characters a relatively new thing the original book and play Peter and Wendy has been around since 1904 with there being film versions of the story dating back to as early as 1924 and as such it isn't out of the realm of possibility that there could have been a horror based Peter Pan film since then and with even the book it self being a pretty dark book with Pan himself even killing off any of The Lost Boys that wanted to leave Neverland and Tinkerbell showing a more violent side to her when in conflict with Wendy all of which would have made for a great film and it is something that given how dark the book can get does make sense as to why this character became a horror villain as he basically already was one in the first place but the film robs us of anything that makes Peter Pan feel like Peter Pan outside of a few references to things and a line of dialog later on in the film and that's rally it but we do get to see Peter's signature pose tho which was nice to see but it's still something that doesn't make this film as good as it really could have been tho.

Whilst this film is indeed set within the same fictional world as Winnie The Pooh: Blood And Honey the film actually has only one connection for those movies. That being the fact that Teresa Banham is actually reprising her role from the second Blood And Honey film which was actually rather refreshing as usually films that are set within the same fictional universe usually spend either alot of time in setting up the other films or in reminding you that it's set in the same universe as these other films and outside of the fact that Teresa Banham is playing the same character and the fact that we get to go to Ashdown again there's next to nothing in this film that connects it to the previous films which is a good idea as it shows that the makers of these films are indeed taking these films seriously and are not just making them to be a quick cash grab which would have been super easy to do given just much wide spread attention the first Blood And Honey film got and yet by not doing that it allows them to focus in on making each of the films as good as they can be and while that doesn't work for this film mostly due to the fact that it ha a first time writer and director making it you can tell right away that there is alot of care and effort put into this film and while that won't make the film better in any way shape or form it does indeed show that the makers of these films are willing to take on criticism from the films and make them better just like at Blood And Honey 2 as proof of that.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty five minuets and forty six seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these films with this film also having just the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use it's running time as well it really could have have done as none of the characters are that well developed with the big blow up between Wendy and Mary coming out of nowhere and adding quite literally nothing to the actual plot of the film and the fact that Tinker Bell is now either a transvestite or transgender isn't made all that clear in the film but what is made clear is the fact that she's addicted to drugs and just like the rest of the characters isn't that well developed either as all of there characters just come across as being very note with the same thing also being true for all of the films side characters alot of whom are also rather forgettable characters as well and this is something that really could have been fixed if the film had a longer running time even more so when you take into account that alot of these actors are due to reprise there roles in other films and yet this film doesn't give us a reason to care about these characters in the first place let alone want to see more of them in other movies in the first but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.  

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. However tho at the same time given that this film did have a budget that was pretty much the exact same as Blood And Honey 2 they really could have done better kills in this film but to this films credit tho when it does do an original kill it does look pretty cool but it's also during this films kills that the film thinks that it's Terrifer 2 with all of the blood only without any of the wit and charm to pull it off with the best thing about this films kills is oddly enough Peter himself as he doesn't have a go to weapon of choice and so he's forced to use whatever happens to be near him at the same time and that does result in some pretty gruesome death scenes in this film with the best death scene in this film actually being hr first kill of the film where Peter cuts open the top of the head of James's mother and he lets her just bleed out basically which was such a gnarly kill it's just a shame tho that alot of the other kills in this film weren't as good as that one was as alot of this films kills are pretty generic cheaply made slasher film kills with nothing new or original added to them to make them feel new or unique again in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall let us hope that Bambi: The Reckoning which is so far due to be the next one of the Twisted Childhood Universe films to be released is at the very least better then this film as this film had all of the potential to be a really good film and yet for one reason or another it really just couldn't live up to that potential and instead what we got was a film that's just nothing more then an average film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as we all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all o the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , the official The Twisted Childhood Universe fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.