Review of Red Hook

Red Hook (2009)
Game of Death
25 July 2011
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Over the top slasher flick that besides it's deep red as well as other garish color photography also skillfully juxtaposes the action in the film on a New York City Subway map much like the 1979 inner city cult classic "The Warriors".

Jenny has never gotten over the brutal murder of her big sister back in North Carolina when she was 10 years old and developed a serious case of agoraphobia because of it. It's now ten years later when Jenny is now about to attend New York University she's obligated to go on a scavenger hunt with her fellow classmates as some kind of collage initiation rite. Being text-ed and e-mailed by her student instructor Tim on clues that would lead Jenny and her fellow collage classmate to the pot of gold, or free White Stripe concert tickets, at the end of the rainbow that as it turns out happens to be the Red Hook section of Brooklyn.

What at first looked like a fun walk in the park or city later turned out to be fatal for almost all the students participating in this scavenger hunt. The fact is that the students who participate in this scavenger hunt will not end up winning any of its prizes but end up becoming victims of it! Victims of a deranged psycho who has it in for anyone who didn't go through the sufferings in life that he did. And to even the score he's to make sure that everyone participating in this hunt will not come out of it not only with the free White Strip concert tickets but with their lives as well!

It's not until well into the movie that Jenny & Co. finally realize that their being targeted for murder by very probably the person who's giving them the clues, by cell phone text massages and photos, that leading them straight to their own murders not to the free concert tickets! The blood letting never lets up with almost all the students ending up butchered by the faceless psycho killer with Jenny for some strange reason seemingly immune to his wild and murderous rampages! That's until Det.Fox from back in North Carolina who's been hired by Jenny's parents to look after her safety uncovers who the killer is just before he adds Jenny to his long list of murder victims.
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