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 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 in 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 in 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 able 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 in 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 ing 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 it 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.