Director: Mike Lordi
Year: 2026
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
On her way to a film audition, a woman joins a group of actors waiting around for the director to arrive and begins discussing the nature of indie horror with everyone else, unaware that they're being stalked by a masked madman haunting the building and must get out alive.
Review:
Overall, this was a pretty solid one-note slasher effort. The main selling point here is the simplified premise that serves not only to constantly beat the audience over the head about its associations with the genre but provide a constant stream of such material for the audience. The plot consists of two things for the majority of the running time, focusing on the actors running through the qualifications of the profession and what it means to work in indie horror or being stalked and killed through the endless corridors of the building they're holding the auditions in. This simplicity keeps the film running along quite smoothly, making for some fun interactions as the group tries to make sense of what they're being asked to do, resulting in a meta-commentary on the tactics used in indie horror filmmaking calling out what's going on as cliches in the scene which the film capitalizes on that instant or running through numerous names and figures as if it were common knowledge who they were.
The other aspect to be had here is the endless stream of stalking scenes taking place within the complex as the group slowly becomes aware of their hosts' true intentions. The twisting corridors, endless hallways to random office rooms, and dark meeting spaces where everyone is gathered together set everything up as a fantastic setting for the different interactions involving the masked killer emerging out of the shadows to stalk the unsuspecting group as they investigate what's going on. There's little change about the way it gets to these setpieces, as someone goes off wondering why someone hasn't returned and then getting to encounter the figure, so it feels immensely repetitive once it gets going, as the skeptical, scoffing nature of the encounter is soon met by the killer striking, but the sequences themselves are lively and somewhat chilling enough to make it worthwhile. As well as the great reveal of everything that brings about what they're doing the whole thing for, there are some worthwhile factors to this one.
Overview: ***/5
A rather solid, straightforward slasher effort, there’s not much else to this one other than getting the people there to be killed, which is fun enough in the right mindset. Those with an appreciation for this style or who aren’t turned off by these drawbacks will have the most to like, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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