Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer

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Movie
German title Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Original title Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jon Knautz
script John Ainslie ,
Jon Knautz
production Neil Bregman ,
Trevor Matthews ,
Patrick White
music Ryan Shore
camera Joshua Allen
cut Matthew Brulotte
occupation

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer is an American horror - comedy of film director Jon Kautz after one of him with John Ainslie written script, one of the lead roles was by Robert Englund taken.

action

Ever since plumber Jack Brooks lost his family to a forest troll while on a camping holiday as a child, he has suffered from outbursts of anger. When he wants to do his evening school chemistry teacher Gordon Crowley a favor and tries unsuccessfully to fix the pipe problem in his old house (the previous owner has scary stories around it), he accidentally wakes an evil demon buried in the garden. The latter takes possession of Gordon in the form of eerie fumes and forces him to dig up a box from the garden in which there is not only bones but also a pounding heart, which Gordon is forced to eat. Meanwhile, Jack tries to find a new outlet for his teacher's pipes and learns from the aging salesman at his small hardware store that he killed a terrible demon as a child and then buried it in a chest in the garden after it had taken possession of his uncle . It turns out that this seller's family home is identical to the current chemistry teacher's home. This teacher eventually transforms into an ugly monster in front of his students in one of the following lessons and begins to either eat some of the students or transform them into murderous assistants, depending on their needs. Jack and his girlfriend Eve manage to escape initially, but Jack decides to confront his monsters and returns to the night school building. There he first kills the demonic assistants, then the monster that was his teacher, and frees the rest of his classmates. In a subsequent epilogue, the viewer learns that Jack then initially took revenge on the forest troll, who had his family on his conscience, and then went out into the world to successfully continue to fight monsters and thus channel his outbursts of anger.

background

Instead of computer-generated visual effects, the film uses materials such as fake blood , latex and foam in the style of earlier B-movies and splatter films . The award-winning orchestral soundtrack was recorded with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and named one of the 10 best soundtracks of 2008 by the Ain't It Cool News website . The world premiere took place on October 9, 2007 at the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya .

criticism

Rochus Wolff from BlairWitch.de recognizes many allusions to modern classics of the genre in the "fine trash stripes" and particularly emphasizes the performance of Robert Englund, but criticizes the unpredictability of the plot and missed "splatter opportunities" towards the end. Jeannette Catsoulis of the New York Times particularly highlights the acting performances of Robert Englund and David Fox, which are the real pleasure of the film, which looks better than most of its B-movie colleagues. William Goss from the Cinematical website complains that director Knautz takes too much time until the finale and that it therefore receives too little attention, but praises the honesty of the film in the cross-references to its role models.

Awards

The film was awarded Best Motion Picture MIDNIGHT X-TREME by the Carnet Jove Jury at the Sitges Film Festival. Composer Ryan Shore was awarded the Gold Medal for Musical Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival for his film soundtrack .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 025 DVD).
  2. ↑ ScoreKeeper's Top 10 Best Scores Of 2008 List !! In: Ain't It Cool News. January 5, 2009, accessed June 30, 2010 .
  3. ^ Rochus Wolff: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2007). In: BlairWitch.de. Retrieved June 30, 2010 .
  4. ^ Jeannette Catsoulis: Movie Review. Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008). A blue-collar adventurer. In: The New York Times. August 15, 2008, accessed June 30, 2010 .
  5. ^ William Goss: Review: Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer. In: Cinematical. August 16, 2008, accessed June 30, 2010 .
  6. ↑ Sitges - 40ed. Festival Internacional de Catalunya (4/10 - 14/10). Retrieved June 30, 2010 (English).
  7. ↑ 2009 Award Winners / Past Winners. (No longer available online.) In: Park City Film Music Festival. Archived from the original on February 10, 2012 ; accessed on June 30, 2010 (English).

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