Filmmaker, Justin M. Seaman set his 2016 film in 1989. Intentionally, this one has the feel of a 1980s slasher offering. Harping back to the Golden Age of slashers, we have an extremely gory one today with spikes, sickles, hedge clippers, pruning shears, spades, and holy weed killer. As the Fall is just about here, we will look at one set in pumpkin fields, corn fields, and an old barn. Our feature today is "The Barn."
30 years ago a really cute 10-year-old girl goes to a barn for trick-or-treating. She gets a pick-axe in the head and demons will haul her corpse into the barn. Shocking and perhaps just a bit taboo. Present day, Sam (Mitchell Musolino) and Josh (Will Stout) are two low ambition high school seniors who have a landscaping business. The duo love Halloween and Sam has a crush on the virgin Michelle (Lexi Dripps). The trio will collect young lovers Nikki (Nikki Howell) and Chris (Cortland Woodard). Also, the fifth wheel Russell (Nickolaus Joshua) and head to a Halloween concert. On the way they stop at a closed down town and find the barn the little girl was pick-axed. Now the teens have a Halloween party and Sam tells them the legend of that barn. In a game of Truth or Dare, the demons are summoned and the gore returns.
Joshua will be cut up into little pieces and have his innards eaten. The culprits, a pumpkin head guy, a scarecrow guy, and a miner demon. The trio hit the town and cut everyone up into little pieces. They find Nikki and Chris having pre-marital sex and...well, you can figure that one out. Now Josh and Sam realize they have let the demons loose and feel obliged to go to war with them. At stake is the virgin Michelle. You can imagine what a trio of demons want to do with a virgin. The landscaping duo, armed with holy weed killer, hedge clippers, and other bladed implements go on the offensive against the demons. Sadly, the demons have the virgin Michelle strung up and are ready to...well, you can figure it out.
Will Michelle be de-virginized by Sam or the demons? Will our two young landscapers have enough holy weed killer to disintegrate the demons? If Sam can de-virginize Michelle, will the demonic rite be ruined? This is an incredibly gory one and the death count is in the dozens. For a bloody homage to 1980s horror, see "The Barn."
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