The Cook (2008/I)

Director:

Gregg Simon

Writers:

Nicholas Bonomo (writer)
Francisco Rodriguez (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror

Plot:

Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting...

Plot Keywords:

Sorority House | Cook | Sexual Promiscuity | Christ On The Cross | Murder Investigation

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Mark Hengst	...	The Cook
Makinna Ridgway	...	Amy
Kit Paquin	...	Bunny
Penny Drake	...	Anastasia
Nina Fehren	...	Brooke
Noelle Kenney	...	Autumn
Brooke Lenzi	...	Kristen
Justine Marino	...	Pam
Stefanie Solano	...	Michelle
Allen Yates	...	Lance
Jackson Sowell	...	Jimmy
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Michael Bonomo	...	Frat Brother #1
Dan Butler	...	Detective In Charge
Justin B. James	...	Frat Brother #2
Denny Kaltreider	...	Forensic Specialist
Keith Lewis	...	Police Officer #2
Roy Oraschin	...	Doctor GQ
Daniela Romay	...	Sorority Girl #2
Josie Yount	...	Sorority Girl #1

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:Not Rated | Singapore:M18 | Australia:R (2009) | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Altadena, California, USA

Company:

Cook Movie, The

Trivia:

Hospital scenes filmed on 3rd Floor of "Scrubs" Sacred Heart hospital set.

Movie Connections:

References Sixteen Candles (1984)

Soundtrack:

I Ain't Your Sin

Average Comic Slasher

A new Hungarian cook (Mark Hengst) arrives in a sorority house while a group of girls travels during the weekend to Cabo. The cook does not speak any word in English and is befriended by the medical student Amy (Makinna Ridgway). While the girls stay in the house, he kills one of them, Michelle (Stefanie Solano), using her meat to prepare the most delicious dishes for the girls while he promises in Hungarian to kill everyone in the house.

The low budget "The Cook" is an average comic slasher that has some goods and awful points. First there is no plot, only a new cook that arrives and kills the girls, without any development of his character or motives. The sorority house looks like a warehouse, and the behavior of the hot girls is more for sluts than for college student, with a group of potheads, lesbians and whores. The dialogs are among the most mediocre I have ever seen. When a person befriends another, the usual first question is how your name is. The nerd Amy befriends the cook and never asks his name. Mark Hengst is great, alternating sweet, humorous and scary faces depending on the situation. The joke with "Friday the13th: The Final Chapter" is probably the best moment of this movie. As a tradition in B-movies, most of the girls are extremely sexy and their partial nudity is very attractive and sometimes erotic. The gore special effects are reasonable for a low-budget movie. The predictable conclusion is funny and in the end this movie is watchable and not so bad. My vote is five.

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