Blood Barn (2026) by Gabriel Bernini

Director: Gabriel Bernini

Year: 2026

Country: USA

Alternate Titles: N/A

Genre: Supernatural

Plot:

Taking a road trip together, a group of friends heads to a family farmhouse to have a fun weekend partying together at a remote barn on the property, but when the weekend is turned upside down as the group is possessed by supernatural demons, they must find a way to stop them.

Review:

Overall, this was a solid enough genre effort. Among the better elements here are a series of enjoyable and rather obvious homage pieces to the past that create a genuinely cheesy atmosphere.  Focusing on the group’s arrival and series of antics about getting laid or thinking up unique drinking games to play with each other, the first half here spreads a rather fun example of the kind of cheesy atmosphere present with how we get to know the group and the various archetypes they fill while getting to know them and their personalities. Hardly anything here is groundbreaking, but it’s all handled well enough that it checks the necessary marks about what’s going on at the barn while also dropping just enough hints at something happening around the outskirts, with the ground shown absorbing their clothing or the flash visuals of bloodied figures hanging out around the group.

That all sets up the frantic and highly enjoyable final half, where the whole thing becomes a bit more obvious about what’s going on when the group is targeted by the strange supernatural entity in the house. Swiftly moving through the group and possessing them to the point of leaving only one left unaffected. which becomes a series of cheesy, energetic encounters trying to keep the infected member contained long enough to figure out what’s going on, there’s a great low-budget charm to the sequences here, with the cheap props and flimsy effects selling the idea of everything more than the realism of what’s happening. That falls more in line with how the films they’re homaging played out, also furthering the connection just like the storyline here, but this is still a rather fun feature.

Overview: **.5/5

A fun enough if slightly flawed genre homage, this one comes off well enough for what it is, even though it does have some truly obvious limitations in play, keeping it down. Those with an appreciation for this style of low-budget genre efforts or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.