It turns out to be Cobb, who puts his head in a vice. Kevin, the new dick boss at the factory is f**king another woman besides his wife, Lydia and is in his office with her when he hears something. ![]() He tells Jake he can’t waste the third wish. Cobb mumbles something about wanting the paw and thus, the final wish for himself. Jake finally catches up to Cobb, in a graveyard, of course. He says he just wants to take his boy fishing. Later, Cobb goes to see his kid who he has with a nice lady who has a restraining order against him. He goes to the cop shop the next morning, presumably to own up to everything but chickens out. Jake, in the meantime, has found an abandoned warehouse and throws the paw away. “How does it go again, you put your right arm in, your right arm out…” Something tells us New Cobb isn’t the weathered old dog with a good heart he used to be (Jill, I sort of fancied him for a split second, a step too far?). She patches him up and offers him some sex for which he thanks her with a fatal strangling. Cobb is rescued by a local barmaid who takes him home with her, in the biblical sense and also in a kind way. Jake wishes he wasn’t dead with his second wish and then runs off. On the way home, Jake crashes the Mustang and Cobb is thrown through the windshield and killed. “You know what I did last Summer…? Mainlined the whole of Gossip Girl on Netflix?” Lydia and Jake have words and it’s clear that they’re still into one another by how mean they are. They intend to confront Kevin about sacking Gillespie but he’s not home. So the boys go for a spin, stopping off at Kevin’s house, where he lives with Lydia, Jake’s ex. Jake’s first wish is for the sweet Mustang he’s just spotted in the car park of the pub lo and behold, when he and Cobb approach it later, it’s unlocked and the keys are in the ignition. (We’ll be the judge of that, sir, once this story is through). ![]() Gillespie sort of tries to warn the men about the paw’s hold on people but not really, calling it a ‘peace treaty’, as Jake was somehow involved in his sacking. A bit drunk, Jake makes a wish and is told that the paw is his until he makes his last wish. Naturally the men ask him about it and he tells them about the three wishes. Gillespie has a shrivelled monkey’s paw on the table next to him (as you do). Jake and his mate, Cobb approach him and have a chat about him being sacked. Jake’s old boss, Gillespie is in the pub later on that night, drowning his sorrows. Fast forward a bit and Jake’s boss has been fired by his boss, Kevin who is married to Jake’s ex-girlfriend, who Jake clearly still has the hots for. His boss is giving him jip for something, something to do with trucks? I must admit here that I had a bit of an issue with the ‘Nawlins accent, all I longed for was proper pronunciation. Jake is the stand out as he is the only vaguely attractive young man. He mumbles something along the lines of “Don’t mess with fate, son” and promptly dies.Ĭut to modern day and we’re in a factory full of seasoned workers. When the shouting stops, the poor kid tiptoes downstairs to find his father on the floor, holding a monkey’s paw. We begin in the room of a small, frightened boy, presumably hiding out from his parents, who can be heard downstairs, violently fighting. After the first two wishes leave his friend Cobb undead, Cobb pushes Jake to make a final wish. Jake is given a monkey’s paw that grants three wishes. This week is Jillian’s choice and… well, read on to see what I thought, you know how it work’s around here, don’cha? All I will say right now, is that this film is based on the creepy short story most of us know, The Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Another week, another slightly left of field movie review!
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