Switchblade Insane: A wife (Kristine Renee Farley) finds out her husband (Ford Windstar) is the "Switchblade Butcher", a guy who rapes and puts holes into pretty girls - but when she tries to catch him red-handed and kill him, she notices she enjoys helping her husband out a bit too much ...
A Very Bad Situation: Aliens have apparently overrun the earth, and infected all humans having come in contact with them with a virus that turns them into flesh-eating monsters. A trio of humans (Thom Farrel, Melanie Dean, Olivia Blake) have holed themselves up in a garage, and it seems they're ok ... until they let a fourth guy (Kevin La Fracia) in who has escaped the aliens and human monsters - but totally freaks out when he notices one of the girls (Olivia Blake) is injured, and her wounds look very much like those inflicted by the aliens ...
The Tape: A VHS afficionado (Travis Hoecker) finds the copy of a never-finished SOV horror movie and becomes so obsessed by it that he tracks down its producer/director (David S. Hart) to make him finish it - he succeeds, but it might not always be a good thing to get what you wish for ...
Gang Them Style: Zombies of the flesh-eating variety have taken over earth - and thus Mongoose (Wes Reid) wants to fetch his grandma (Anne Fitzgerald) from the retirement home she's at and drive her to safety, action hero style. But granny is unwilling to leave without her friends. There are two problems connected to that, all of granny's friends are very old and thus very slow, and Mongoose might have all the right action hero moves and everything - but he totally lacks in efficiency ...
Genre Bending: A woman (Noel Williams) is stalked by a weirdo who has the intention to kill her ... but just not the balls to do so - but just when he wants to give up on his intentions, he's killed by a big black guy, who then wants to rape the woman. Thing is, he's into big black guys and wants to thank her saviour - which wouldn't qualify as rape anymore, so the would-be rapist tries to chicken out ...
The Request: A radio DJ (Brad Westmar) gets a request on his call-in show to play a song that was the song of him and his deceased girlfriend (Nicole Santorella) - but one might want to add here that he has killed her out of jealousy a year ago, and now it's her who requests the song ...
Thicker Than Water: Emily (Elaine Huntington) is pregnant, and her boyfriend (Mike Malloy) couldn't be happier ... until he learns she, out of jealousy, keeps his ex (Vanessa Nocera) tied up in their garage - and now expects him to murder her as a proof for their love ...
The Scout: A former S.O.V. filmmaker (Mark Sadr) and his hot actress girlfriend (Alexis Codding) visit some of the locations in the desert where he used to shoot back in the day (because he didn't need a permit there), but what was supposed to be a romantic afternoon turns out to be a nightmare, first because the car breaks town and our actress has to return to town for a really important callback, then because her boyfriend has special plans with her ...

The wraparound segment features three wannabe filmmakers (Danielle Nicole Rosario, Baker Chase, Paul K) filming some scenes for an S.O.V. horror movie at a really spooky location - where they meet a weirdo (Andre Martin) scaring the shit out of them. But when they later find him dead, they come to the conclusion that actually one of them has to be the killer ...

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Paying homage to the S.O.V. filmmakers of the "original" S.O.V. era (the late 1980s/early '90s), when these films were shot on hi-8, 8n filmmakers - some from that era, others heavily influenced by it - came together go make shorts using the techniques available yesteryear: So no HD cameras, no CGI, only practical effects. And while I have to admit it eludes me as to why pay homage to an era where the technology did not fit the filmmaker's needs (and visibly so), the result is a fun film nevertheless, made up of 8 stories and a wraparound that all have their likeable twists and turns, that are very eclectic in their approach to the genre, are suitably macabre, and don't take themselves too seriously, without even one of them being overly moronic (though Gang Them Style is at least funny as hell). At the end of the day then, it doesn't matter if S.O.V. horror was your thing or not, you'll probably find at least half of these shorts very entertaining!

review � by Mike Haberfelner

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