Blood Hook is a 1986 American slasher film directed by Jim Mallon and starring Mark Jacobs, Lisa Todd, Patrick Danz, Sara Hauser, and Christopher Whiting. It follows a group of young people who arrive in a small northern Wisconsin town during a fishing festival, where a series of bizarre disappearances and murders are occurring. It was distributed by Troma Entertainment. The film was premiered at the MIFED Film Market in October 1986. The film was truncated for its 1987 release after the Motion Picture Association of America threatened to grant the film an X rating due to its violent content. Plot While at his family's lakeside lodge in northern Wisconsin, six-year-old Peter van Cleese witnesses his grandfather mysteriously become overtaken by an apparent supernatural force while fishing on the dock. He falls into the lake, and his body is never recovered. Seventeen years later, Peter, now a recent college graduate, has inherited the lodge. He decides to travel there with his group of friends—Ann Colbert, Kiersten, Rodney, and Finner—for the first time since his grandfather's disappearance. The group arrive during "Muskie Madness," an annual fishing festival in the local community. At the lodge, the group are met by Wayne Duerst, a neighbor hired by the Van Cleese's to look after the property since Peter's grandfather's death. Wayne and his paranoid Vietnam veteran grandson, Evelyn, are hostile toward the group. While Peter and his friends visit local restaurant that evening, middle-aged tourist Sheila Swain is attacked on a nearby dock by an assailant who entangles her with a large fishing line, and pulls her into the lake. The next day, Rodney and Tom become acquainted with young mother Beverly Duerst—Evelyn's wife—who helps to organize the fishing festival. Rodney visits a local fishing shop run by Leory Leudke. Leudke tells Rodney a story about how Peter's grandfather and Wayne used to catch trophy fish by reeling them to shore and shooting them, but stopped after Wayne accidentally shot Peter with a bullet. Meanwhile, Peter grows increasingly unnerved being near the lake where his grandfather drowned. Ann tries to comfort him, and believes him to be experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. Rodney takes a boat out on the lake by himself, and is attacked by an unseen assailant, who castrates him with a large fishing hook before dragging him into the water with the fishing line. Police find the blood-soaked empty boat floating on