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Butchers Bluff gets off to an appropriate start with a gratuitous display of breasts as a couple go at it in a pick up. And it's not long after that that they fall victim to The Hogman, an escaped mental patient named Alex (William Instone, The Sawyer Massacre, Damsel of the Doomed), who allegedly lives in this stretch of woods and is responsible for 28 deaths over the past twenty years.

This has caught the attention of a group of college students, after Roger (Michael Fischer, Up on the Housetop, A Stream That Led to Nowhere ) stumbles upon the story, and he and his associates Nicole (Paige Steakley, Sacred Mask, Lowriders vs Zombies from Space) and Derick (Johnny Huang, Attack of the Unknown, Fear the Walking Dead) decide to make a film a documented on the subject for their next assignment for Prof. Hooper's class and for a bit of fun on the side, they bring along their friends Samantha(Samantha Holland,The Massacre on Halloween Night,Eyes of a Roman) Tina (Kayla Anderson,When Wendy Grew Up, Generation Hope)Bobby (Dakota Millett, Time to Fight, Alita: Battle Angel) and Jake (Santiago Sky, Hollow Lake, The Blood Order) for some after hours partying, what else is there to do in the middle of nowhere?

HARVEST OF THE DEAD is another in my British horror catch-up. It managed to get a physical media release in the US, but here it's only available via Prime Video - and only recently too, despite its 2015 year of production.

It's not great, although any foray into this New Forest nightmare may be best served by avoiding the ridiculously detailed synopsis which was provided by the director, which basically outlines the entire story up to the last twenty minutes.

For those of you that have bypassed such spoiler strewn idiocy, then I'll just boil it down to a group of four girls who have headed out on a camping expedition for the weekend. They're a likeable lot in all honesty, but in a weird twist of of imbalance, much of the first half of the picture is taken up with a collection of shoehorned shorts, passed off as 'scary campside tales' recounted by the girls.

Eating Miss Campbell (2022) is a fantastic film. Despite its occasionally inconsistent tone, the strong meta-humor and the dedicated central performances in Eating Miss Campbell helped to keep viewers invested right until the end, with Craine, in particular, delivering a powerhouse portrayal of a tortured and introverted teen who initially resents but gradually comes to embrace her role as a protagonist in a horror movie. It may not be perfect, but this is still a gloriously offbeat, well-acted, and sometimes downright hilarious tale of a decidedly weird teenage girl who develops a taste for human flesh.