Review of Cookers (2001) by Richard A — 03 Feb 2009

Cookers is a very well made low budget chiller. Being practically unheard of and a relatively small film its destined to obtain cult underground status. It takes the haunted house genre and mixes it with meth addiction and this is what we get. Its not so much of a horror film in the true sense of the word, its more like a study of what drugs do to your sense of perception and how they consume you until there's nothing left but paranoia.

Cooker depends entirely on the performance of its cast and in this case its even a harder task when the cast consist of 3 characters only. They won't win any oscars but they do a great job in carrying the film. Cookers just gives the viewer this sense of hopeless doom and depression, it almost puts you there in the house, in the lifestyle of the cooker, the dealer and the oaf who assists them.

Its a creepy, depressing good ol'time!