Shookum Hills
- 2021
- 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
4.3/10
6.3K
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A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains, which was abandoned decad... Read allA group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains, which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains, which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.
- Awards
- 2 nominations total
Apollo Bacala
- Shadow Creature
- (uncredited)
Lea Hutton Beasmore
- Militia
- (uncredited)
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Too dark and not in a good way, even in daytime setting I couldn't see a thing, I've no idea what was going on as the screen just seemed to be in total darkness. I can understand most of these things happen at night but even the daytime stuff seemed to be dark, I thought at first there was a Shaddow on my screen.
Didn't keep me interested enough to watch it all the way through, boring story, boring cast and I couldn't see what was going on.
Didn't keep me interested enough to watch it all the way through, boring story, boring cast and I couldn't see what was going on.
The trailer wasn't bad but the movie sucked. If Will Patton wasn't in it I never would of watched it. All this movie consists of is people running around in the darkness. There was also no clear explanation on what the monsters were. And they never show you a clear shot of what they look like. All you get from whatever these creatures are is a bunch of annoying moaning & groaning. Movie was a waste of time. 4 stars.
One of those films which makes absolutely no practical sense.
Cliche after cliche, inaccurate technical details and an old play on the heroine.
Cookie cutter to put it bluntly.
The character actions did not portray, even remotely, the common sense anyone would immediately have. The monster was same ole, same ole. The bad guys more common than usual with the usual, obvious twist.
I successfully predicted all the elements of this film before they occurred. Anyone could. Anyone will.
However, my gf did like it so I let it play.
I've seen much better monster/creature films but I've also seen more monster films which are worse, a lot worse. All in all, you can watch it but it won't really do much for ya. Unless, of course, you are rather new to monster/creature features.
Something is down there in the ground, and with dishonest causes for being there where the ground smokes and the mud is warm, really rams this group of five.
but as in every 3rd monster movie the monster is barely visible, a blurry outline and a flysnappersflowers mouth piece is the only you can see.and apart from loads of groans and growels, and dissapearing mighty men that should have a CO detector instead of a CO2 detector. the guiding ''lola'' caracter seems like and sound like a toomb raider caracter, and the continous darkness keeps the secrets very well hidden till you cant figure out whats what. so productionwise it has many glitches, and a very troublesome daylight logistic nightmare. the darkfilming is so bad, so what is in the dark stays secretly there in the dark forever.
so go out and find yourself an abandoned coal mine pit and make a copycat outta this.you just have to be cruel and sinister and dumbfoundly curious in the acts, its really nothing more.
it started of with a 6, ended up with a weak 4 thinks the grumpy old man. its a shallow story, poor caracter development and the filming is a nightmare
but as in every 3rd monster movie the monster is barely visible, a blurry outline and a flysnappersflowers mouth piece is the only you can see.and apart from loads of groans and growels, and dissapearing mighty men that should have a CO detector instead of a CO2 detector. the guiding ''lola'' caracter seems like and sound like a toomb raider caracter, and the continous darkness keeps the secrets very well hidden till you cant figure out whats what. so productionwise it has many glitches, and a very troublesome daylight logistic nightmare. the darkfilming is so bad, so what is in the dark stays secretly there in the dark forever.
so go out and find yourself an abandoned coal mine pit and make a copycat outta this.you just have to be cruel and sinister and dumbfoundly curious in the acts, its really nothing more.
it started of with a 6, ended up with a weak 4 thinks the grumpy old man. its a shallow story, poor caracter development and the filming is a nightmare
This is not a perfect movie. It is also nowhere near the worst of all time. It is a low budget horror movie, and not a bad one. Hollywood dumps worse than this in theaters every January and late August.
Did you know
- TriviaThe scenes in the mine are filmed in Slade, Kentucky and you can visit it and take a tour of inside the mine. There are two different touring companies, The gorge underground & SUP Kentucky.
- GoofsWhen they discover the presence of Anthracite at the mine, a character announces they've found C15H11O (which is the elemental composition). However, he pronounces it as C15, H11, "dash zero", when it should be "oh" as in the letter, which stands for oxygen.
- ConnectionsReferences L'Empire contre-attaque (1980)
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Details
Box office
- Budget
- $2,650,800 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $12,008
- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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