A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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 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 the girls start disappearing one-by-one, they begin to suspect something may not be quite right....So all you need to know about is is the fact that there are a lot of pretty girls in this, who get drunk and stoned, and kiss one another a lot.It's as if someone has made a really cheap movie with female friends, and getting them to kiss. It has a good set up and there is an idea there, but it's so poorly made and acted, you really are clock watching throughout the whole film.The cook being unable to speak English, borderlines xenophobia, and there is one good scene explaining Friday 13th Part 4, while there is a killing going on. It's inventive and the highlight of an otherwise poor movie.Plus this features the worst acted portrayal of a Policeman I have ever seen. He even says 'Cup of Joe'.Not worth seeing.

Just saw this and I was truly horrified. I mean I'm a big fan of bad movies and bad horror movies especially. Because usually they are brainless fun and totally watchable. But this is the opposite, it's entirely unwatchable and done with absolutely zero acting talent with some of the worst directing ever and script is just insulting to any viewer with IQ above 80.This movie is much like Manos: The Hands of Fate, 100% clueless and inconsistent, but at least Manos was done by total amateurs and wasn't annoying. As a huge fan of bad flicks I'd say that The Cook is amongst the 10 worst movies ever made - and it's really really bad, there's no secret pleasure in watching it, so I'd only recommend it to people who can tolerate extremely stupid and one-dimensional characters, horrendous script writing and actors with zero acting skill (annoying as well).This movie makes someone like Uwe Boll look good.

Merging genres in a film is never an easy thing to do. The filmmaker runs the risk of losing his/her intended message or focus. This is never more true when we are taking about the horror and comedy genres. The two are so completely opposite of each other that it is nearly impossible to pull off a horror-comedy effectively. Sure, there are examples of getting right, but there are definitely more examples of getting it wrong. "The Cook" doesn't get it wrong, so to speak, but would have been a much better, more effective film had he director completely eliminated the comedic elements of the film.We are introduced to a typical college sorority house. It is break time, and several of the girls decide to stick around the house and have their own little celebration. At the same time, a new cook arrives. Now, this is the first puzzling element of the film; the sorority house is no bigger than a typical two story house. It does not appear to be that fancy of a college campus, judging by the house and its surroundings, so why or how on earth do they have their own personal Hungarian cook??? Ahhh....tuition money well spent, I suppose. Also, where does he stay, since he always seems to be there? Would a sorority house really hire a male chef to stay with the girls alone over a break? Anyway, The Cook ends up being a homicidal maniac and begins to off the sorority sisters one by one and use them in his recipes. Yes, he serves the dead girls to their sorority sisters in various forms, including hamburgers and barbecue.The Good: The film is at its best when it is working as a horror film. The Cook is a creepy killer and the death scenes pretty brutal and unrelenting. The killings are very reminiscent of the kills we saw in the early "Friday the 13th" sequels and the other more gory entries into the 80's slasher genre, which is probably on purpose, as one scene has two characters talking about a death scene in "Friday the 13th Part 4" as the film intercuts a female victim is being killed in the exact same manner by The Cook. The direction is pretty competent, particularly during the death scenes, and the acting a tad above average. The film did manage to keep my attention and didn't drag in any parts.The Bad: The film is at its worse when it is working as a comedy. The characters are complete clichés and the screenwriter tries to use this alone to provide comic relief. There is badly written banter between some of the girls and a completely unnecessary subplot involving the resident "badass-lesbian" who seduces the innocent, bible-thumping religious girl. In fact, the screenwriter must have a thing for lesbianism, because there are several unnecessary scenes of girl-on-girl action, as if this a normal thing in sororities. Still, the comedic tones to the film (and they are present) really, at least for me, killed the pacing and effectiveness of the movie. Again, The Cook is such a brutal killer (except when the writer is apparently trying to have him be funny by blabbering and saying stupid stuff in Hungarian) that this could have really been a kick-ass slasher film. Instead, after any brutal kill, there are bad moments of comic relief. The dailogue is clunky, the characters complete clichés and underdeveloped. There is no final confrontation between killer and final girl and the ending is too predictable and unsatisfying.Another horror-comedy that should have just been strictly horror. Take the comedic element out of this film and you actually have a pretty decent, gory, slasher film. However, as is, the comedic elements diminish the films tone and effectiveness and aren't even all the funny to begin with. Average at best, but had the potential to be much better.FrightMeter Grade: C

There are a lot worse movies out there, but yes this is nothing more than a typical bad horror movie. It follows the formula very well, with sex, nudity and gore. The camera work was actually decent in this film, but the cinematography wasn't. The script and acting weren't _too_ bad all things considered. What I think was done well was the Cook himself - he was Hungarian and understood English but didn't let anyone know that and spoke to everyone in Hungarian telling them how he was about to kill them, while the sorority girls just found him charming. I enjoyed that. Then he would use the people he killed to make into dinner for the rest of the sorority girls - but the dinners were really disgusting all-meat dinners, yet no one bats an eye? And I mean, really disgusting looking rancid meat. However the actors in this movie were really REALLY annoying, and they did all deserve to die. The nice, sweet girl was annoying as hell, and the one guy in this movie - who the hell talks to their member like that? Wow was that stupid, embarrassingly stupid.Spoiler (dont read if you care to not know the end): The one good thing is that everyone gets killed in the end. And you do enjoy these people being killed as they are so annoying your happy they're done away with.