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Cast: Jeremy King (The Pale Door), Noah Segan (Knives Out), Toni Trucks (“SEAL Team”), Chase Williamson (The Guest), Baron Vaughn (“Grace and Frankie”) and Joe Bob Briggs (“The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs”)
In SCARE PACKAGE, Chad Buckley is a lonely Horror aficionado, spending his days overseeing a struggling video store and arguing with his only customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting job applicant arrives, Chad sets out to teach him the rules of Horror; weaving in and out of hilarious segments geared toward the ropes and tropes of terror.
'Scare Package' is another in a long line of horror anthologies but while most are out to be gory and scary this one sets out to take all those horror clinches and poke fun of them.
The film itself is set inside a video store owned by Ryan. His only customer, Sam claims to know everything about horror and wants a job at the store but Ryan refuses to give it to him. Instead he hires Hawn instead and from there the fun begins as we get to see a total of seven stories from Directors' Emily Hagins (My Sucky Teen Romance), Chris McInroy (Death Metal), Noah Segan (Knives Out), Courtney and Hillary Andujar (production design on The Wind), Anthony Cousins (The Bloody Ballad of Squirt Reynolds), Baron Vaughn (“Grace and Frankie”) and Koontz (The Pale Door) who all co-wrote the film with Frank Garcia-Hejl (“Ramsey Has a Time Machine”), Ben Fee (Missio: I See You) and John Karsko (After Dark).
Like most anthologies you are going to have some stories that are better than the others and that is also true here. The film has a lot of blood and gore as well as comedy. I laughed out loud several times during the film but if I had one complaint about it I would say it was perhaps a bit too long.
So over all I recommend this one to fans of horror/comedies. There is plenty of fun for everyone. RLJE Films will release Shudder's SCARE PACKAGE on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray October 20th. Bonus features on the DVD include:
Creators Commentary on the Film, Commenting on Other Films That Have Better Commentary Tracks
Bonus Segment: Locker Room Z
Rad Chad's Rad Ad
The SCARE PACKAGE Blooper Reel
Original Not-as-Good Ending
Bonus features on the Blu-ray include all of the above, as well as:
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs: SCARE PACKAGE Episode
Released by RLJE Films
*** 1/2 Out Of *****