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Scare Package (2019)
Directed by Noah Segan, Emily Hagins, Baron Vaughn, Aaron B. Koontz, Chris McInroy, Anthony Cousins, Hillary Andujar, Courtney Andujar
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Overview
Chad Buckley is a horror aficionado, and he’s lonely. Chad spends his days at his struggling genre video store arguing with his only regular customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting applicant shows up, Chad begins to teach him about the rules of horror and his video store at large, much to the chagrin of Sam. During Chad’s on-boarding process, we weave in and out of different hilarious horror shorts, each one geared at a different set of horror tropes. As this new applicant learns the ropes, he begins to suspect Chad of something sinister, but we quickly learn that he may have a secret of his own.
Rated NR | Length 106 minutes
Actors
Jeremy King | Byron Brown | Hawn Tran | Jon Michael Simpson | Zoe Graham | Noah Segan | Toni Trucks | Chase Williamson | Baron Vaughn | Chelsey Grant | Luxy Banner | Josephine McAdam | Aaron D. Alexander | Allan McLeod | Jocelyn DeBoer | Melanie Minichino | Dustin Runnels | Kirk C. Johnson | Sam Stinson | Atsuko Okatsuka | Tristan Riggs | Nicholas Sullivan | Brian Villalobos | Spencer Greenwood | Andre Williams | John Bloom
Viewing History (seen 2 times)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/18/2022 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 7 stars |
| 10/26/2019 | Movie Screen | Digital | Theater | 7 stars |
| (Average) 7 stars |
Viewing Notes
Fun! Not a big budget movie but still a bigger budget than a lot of the films screened at Nightmares Film Fest. Certainly all the money spent you can see on screen. Really terrific FX and amusing spins on horror tropes.
Picked up by Shudder for 2020 release.
5 years ago
I heard good things but couldn’t fit it in at Telluride Horror Show.
5 years ago
It’s really fun that leans more comedy than horror. I spoke with Aaron Koontz who developed the concept and directed one of the segments to get more insight. It was originally gonna be called “Tropes” b/c it’s choke full of all the tropes you’d see in horror movies but played for humor. Told him that it was a good decision to go w/Scare Package. The FX are most impressive even when the segments don’t always work. I think I’ll enjoy the movie more on a subsequent viewing but it was a lot of fun to watch with a big crowd.