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The Cook

  • 2008
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
1.3K
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The Cook (2008)
Dark ComedyComedyHorror

Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has t... Read allOver a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was... Read allOver a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement chef to cook their meals. However, when ... Read all

  • Director
    • Gregg Simon
  • Writers
    • Nicholas Bonomo
    • Francisco Rodriguez
    • Dirk Van Fleet
  • Stars
    • Penny Vital
    • Nina Fehren
    • Mark Hengst
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.9/10
    1.3K
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    • Director
      • Gregg Simon
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Bonomo
      • Francisco Rodriguez
      • Dirk Van Fleet
    • Stars
      • Penny Vital
      • Nina Fehren
      • Mark Hengst
    • 17User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Penny Vital
    Penny Vital
    • Anastasia
    • (as Penny Drake)
    Nina Fehren
    • Brooke
    Mark Hengst
    Mark Hengst
    • The Cook
    Noelle Kenney
    Noelle Kenney
    • Autumn
    Brooke Lenzi
    • Kristen
    Justine Marino
    Justine Marino
    • Pam
    Kit Paquin
    Kit Paquin
    • Bunny
    Makinna Ridgway
    Makinna Ridgway
    • Amy
    Stefanie E. Solano
    • Michelle
    Allen Yates
    • Lance
    Dan Butler
    • Detective In Charge
    Jackson Sowell
    • Jimmy
    Roy Oraschin
    • Doctor GQ
    Denny Kaltreider
    • Forensic Specialist
    Justin B. James
    • Police Officer #1…
    Keith Lewis
    • Police Officer #2
    Emily Bonomo
    • Sorority Sister
    Jaime Gruber
    • Sorority Sister
    • Director
      • Gregg Simon
    • Writers
      • Nicholas Bonomo
      • Francisco Rodriguez
      • Dirk Van Fleet
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    6Selbert380

    The Cook - sort of OK,,,

    I appreciate independent films and people trying to make a movie happen and they put their heart and soul into it. This was probably the case here. The story is typical horror Girls being chased by bad guy. The lead was so so she just wasn't grabbing my attention, she should be cast for more for a hallmark film. The other girls were pretty good, the stupid one just had bad lines..Anyways the story, the sets, the gore, the cast, all pretty good The lead (the cook) was intriguing all in all ***The negative was that we never knew why he hated and wanted to kill I would of liked to have seen the cook as a boy being harassed by college girls or seeing his mom die from drunk girls ..you get the picture..Revenge horror flicks are always the best.
    4lmphil

    very inconsistent

    I found The Cook to be both enjoyable and boring at various moments through the film. Almost everything was inconsistent. One actor would deliver a memorable performance and the next...would leave something to be desired. Mark Hengst, as the cook, was the highlight of the entire film. He was both humorous and rather frightening at times. He played a cannibal cook pretty well, I thought. Some of the girls were attractive, with some nudity (I know that's one appeal to this film).

    The dialogue was mediocre...and with three screenwriters you figure they could come up with something better. Cinematography was one minute bland and uninspiring and the next fairly well done. The gore was decent...however, some of it looked particularly fake and amateur.

    The plot was almost non-existent, even for a slasher film. Essentially, the sorority house gets a new cook and he's, well, not very nice.

    I would avoid this unless you're particularly bored as you can find better violence, better gore, better nudity, better plot, etc. in many other slasher films. However, I do recognize that The Cook didn't have a large budget, and so the effort is admirable.

    Mark Hengst carries this film...with a less interesting cook this film would be dismal.
    tylerg35

    A Hungarian Cook his hired by a bunch of sorority girls, and one by one he kills them and feeds them to each other.

    In my opinion, this movie was actually quite humorous, but in a cheesy way. No part of this movie was actually scary, besides the fact that he is the creepiest cook ever. Dialogue wise, this movie was just filled with profanity and sexuality. The fact that they show the cook cutting up his victims into eating portions is just way over the top. The acting was not all that great either but from the cook it was alright, he gave the creepy sense of him, specially when he was chasing his victims. Overall this movie disappointed me , and i give it a 4/10. I would not recommend watching this movie with family, as it can get awkward, actually i don't recommend watching this movie at all.
    4ormessi

    red meat for dinner

    One sure thing you can say about "The Cook" is that the plot of this movie is innovative, it is not another movie about a group of teens who get lost in a distant road, it is something new and refreshing. This movie is far away from being a psychological horror with a deep script and a thrilling soundtrack, it is a funny and easy horror comedy. As i said before, it is not an high quality movie but "The Cook" is just make you laugh and smile and that is what we should expect from those kind of movies. The thing I liked the most in this movie is that it does not shows you only the scenes of the killings, the blood and the internal organs, (like a lot of other movies) it shows also the growing relationships between the characters especially between lance the geek boy and bunny the hot girl. In summary, if you are looking for a deep and qualitative horror so keep searching because it is not this movie, but if you are looking for a nice, funny and easy horror movie, so this is the one for you!
    5claudio_carvalho

    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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    • Trivia
      Hospital scenes filmed on 3rd Floor of "Scrubs" Sacred Heart hospital set.
    • Crazy credits
      During the end credits, blood runs down the screen and outtakes from the film are shown.
    • Connections
      Features Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
    • Soundtracks
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      Written by Rene Garza Aldape, Nicolas Barry, Tomas Jacobi, Sanja

      Performed by The NoSe & Sonja

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    • Release date
      • April 1, 2008 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Повар
    • Filming locations
      • Altadena, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Red Gourmet Productions
      • The Cook Movie
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      • $210,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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