Maidexpl
Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
SeeQuant
Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
Gurlyndrobb
While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
lorimoore-41068
I know this is a bit late in the review category, but I thought it was worth saying that this was a fun and sometimes monster-movie scary. It's not jump out of your seat scary, but I felt monster-movie dread anticipating what's to come as monster(s) begin wreaking havoc. I thought Jack Brooks was hilarious, understandable, and real. He is someone I would like to know and the hilarity comes from his Happy Gilmore reactions to every day annoyances from unresolved issues. His character is believable in crazy, surreal circumstances and it was entertaining throughout. My favorite movies are those with characters for whom I am rooting whatever the story or how it's told, no matter their flaws or good-guy, bad-guy personas as developed(much like Ash's), and the character's humor when well written/played. I felt Jack Brooks fit this bill to a T. Loved him!Don't look for an Evil Dead comparable; let go of pretense and limited expectations and just enjoy. This was, in my opinion, how we all first came to know and love Evil Dead movies to begin with, and how Ash and his exploits continue to entertain to this day...
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Jack Brooks is a 2007 indie horror comedy. So Jack Brooks starts out with something that will make sense later in the film, but then it explains that Jack is just a troubled soul who saw his family massacred by a forest troll. Jack has a serious anger problem, he works as a plumber by day and attends night school at night. One day Jack's teacher asks him to fix one of his pipes, and by accident Jack unleashes a terrible force that posses the teacher and turns him in to a ravenous monster. Jack Brooks is what you get if you stick Evil dead,Hell Boy, and Slither in a blender and hit the "On" button. Jack Brooks isn't anything really really good, but it is really really fun. If you go into this film with the right expectations, you will come out more than happy. See this flick if you like cheesy over the top fun in the vein of the Evil Dead trilogy. Skip this if you are not in the mood for a stupid fun blood-fest. 7/10
GL84
When his science teacher becomes possessed by a voracious parasite and turned into a savage monster, a plumber with violent behavior tendencies races against time to save his class from being turned into his violent slaves.This was a rather unusual horror-comedy, in the sense that the big joke is supposed to be that he's got a violent temper and is using it to fight back against the creature, which in itself isn't all that funny and just comes off as irritating since there's been so many who have used that gimmick before and here it does nothing new with it. That said, it's still a rather enjoyable effort as the film has a decent amount of suspense in his professor turning, there's some good fight scenes that are a lot more enjoyable than expected and it has a really enjoyable amount of special effects from the creature and his turned slaves, which are thankfully puppets and practical effects instead of CGI. This one has some good gore moments as well with a pretty high body count. Overall, not a bad time but could've used a little more work on the comedy.Rated R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
MBunge
I've seen a lot of movies that were pretty good right up until an awful ending. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is the first one I've ever seen where the ending is pretty good, but everything up until that sucked really hard.Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) is a plumber with an anger management problem. His family was killed by a monster in the woods when Jack was a boy and it's left him with a lot of undirected rage. Jack is seeing a counselor about his emotional problems. He's also got an incredibly naggy girlfriend and is taking a night school science class. Jack's professor (Robert Englund) gets possessed by a demon and after the film fiddles around for a looooong time with Englund chewing up the scenery, Jack eventually has to save his classmates from their demonic instructor and discover his destiny in the world.Let me start with the good thing about this movie. The last 25 minutes or so when Jack FINALLY starts slaying monsters is corny and cheesy, with fight choreography straight out of a high school play and a supernatural beast that looks like H. R. Puffinstuff's version of Jabba the Hutt. It's also relatively fun. Do you remember those TV shows from the 1990s - Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess? Those shows were created by horror filmmaker Sam Rami and the good part of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer comes close to what it would have been like if Rami had tried to create another TV show starring Ash from the Evil Dead movies. It's melodrama that completely embraces larger-than-life silliness.Unfortunately, the first 60 minutes of this film are lame and poorly done. Jack wanders from pointless scene to pointless scene while vain attempts at humor are hurled at the audience. And while the title character is treading in stagnant water, Robert Englund is doing his own one-man-show as the Professor. If you just watched the middle part of this film, you'd swear that Englund was the star of it. From scenes going on too long to characters who stand around waiting for something to happen to dialog that sounds like bad improv, it all has an amateurish quality to it.If you're a fan of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess and the Evil Dead films, you might enjoy watching the last half of this movie. I can't think of anyone on Earth who might enjoy the first half. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer might have made a decent first episode for a syndicated TV series if you edited it down. As a feature film, even a direct-to-DVD flick, it's a failure.
