JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER
JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER resurrects Robert Englund but not as Freddy Kruger. This time he’s a kindly chemistry professor but hey, this is Robert Englund so you know eventually he’s going to get ugly and dangerous. In a departure from the recent horror film trend towards gory torture this movie relies on good old fashioned gross outs peppered with dark humour. Jack Brooks (Trevor Matthews) is a twenty-something plumber taking a night school credit course although he should probably be enrolled in some kind of anger management. His teacher Professor Crowley (Englund) asks for his assistance with a plumbing problem at his new rural house that positively bristles with foreboding. Although Jack isn’t able to immediately fix the problem he does succeed in unleashing a Pandora’s Box of evil heretofore safely buried on the property. This causes Crowley to undergo a slow but monstrous change that has a less than educational influence on his students but which forces Jack to face all of his demons both mental and physical and become – Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer.