Wild Eye Releasing, with sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has selected Dec. 13 as the street date for the Special Edition Blu-ray debut of writer/director Jason Berg’s ‘80s horror homage Black Holler.
This is a fun genre romp, complete with a tough-as-nails Final Girl, a victim pool and an unseen mass killer with a lust for blood.
We begin with a foreshadowing prologue set sometime in the 1950s as two researchers venture into the Black Holler Woods in search of a lost Indian artifact with mysterious powers. They, of course, find it — a magic stone —and unleash its avenging force … they are quickly slaughtered.
We skip ahead to “modern” times — late 1980s — and are introduced to LaQuita Johnston (Tamiko Robinson Steele — SingleVille, I Hate New Year’s, Tales from Parts Unknown), who is trying to make a break from her inner-city demons by enrolling at O’Fish Community College. Her first class, “Archepology 101” (is there such a thing?) has an annual tradition of going on a weekend camp out … she should have read the small print, but there you have it, so off she goes.
Naturally, this is a group of misfits — name a character-type and filmmaker Jason Berg has them locked in as the soon-to-be-victim pool — joining the traditional camp out in Black Holler Woods.
No one on this “dig” is out there to do any real research for their class assignment, it’s all about party, party, party. LaQuita is just along for the ride … she has to put up with the nonsense.
But, as you would expect in a horror film, they accidently uncover the long-lost artifact and set in-motion another round of ritual slayings. The problem is, most in the group are either too stoned or too oblivious as to what is going on to realize that one by one their classmates are gone … slaughter by the same unseen force that took out the two researchers thirty-years earlier.
Once the danger is finally realized, it is the inner-city sister, LaQuita, who takes charge and faces off against the murderous threat!
Bonus goodies include commentary from filmmaker Jason Berg, deleted and extended scenes, a gag reel, an alternated ending and two song parody videos — “We Made our Goal” and “Guns n Roses.”
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