Cast

Nuriya Almaya, Bo Boddie, Gwynn Galitzer, Kira Gorelick, Alyssa Jang, Jorgen Jorgensen, Tim Lajcik, Soomin Lee, Kate O'Malley, Matt Sbeglia, Casey Smith, Nick Thorp, Ali Tobia, Cassandra Walker

Film description

Five band members go camping in a forest to work on material for their new album, away from the city hubbub and its temptations – no alcohol, drugs, women, or cell phones allowed on this search for inspiration. In the deep forest, they discover an abandoned cabin, with an ax and bloodstained mirror. As dusk falls, mysterious lights flicker, unsettling voices whisper, the tension inexorably grows and… band members begin to disappear.

Sound familiar? It isn’t – this is no ordinary slasher, though dismembered body parts do go flying a plenty. It is a horror-film-cum-rock-musical, with no dancing but plenty of singing. The rock opera then transforms again into horror film in constant friction between two genres that makes Vincent D’Onofrio’s film exceptional and engaging throughout.

Anna Taszycka