Varsity Blood

2014

1h 26m

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4.1/10

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Jocks and cheerleaders head out to a remote farmhouse for a raucous Halloween party, but someone dressed as their school mascot intends to slaughter them all.

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Jake Helgren

Writers

Jake Helgren(writer by)

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Lexi Giovagnoli

Wesley Scott

Debbie Rochon

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Hannah Wallace

Jeff Jenson

Nancy Wallace

Tina Blair

Blaine Bochner

Heather Zann

Robin Donaldson

Mike Brophy

Linda Jones

Bubba Barton

Rick Youngblood

Diane Sanchez

Vickie

Peter Paxton

Sheriff Jones

Krissy

Trick or Treater

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Jake Helgren

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_**A school mascot slashes teens at a pasture party in the heart of Texas**_ Youths from the high school in Hogeye, Texas, celebrate Halloween at an abandoned farmhouse where they’re picked off by someone dressed as the mascot of their school, an Indian warrior with hatchets and arrows. "Varsity Blood" (2014) is a low-budget Indie that harkens back to the slashers of the early 80s with all the tropes thereof. I like the idea of the killer using the mascot costume of the school, which I don’t remember being done before. The cheerleaders & friends are attractive in a voluptuous way with only one blonde being the thin stereotype. Lexi Giovagnoli stands out as the doe-eyed protagonist, Hannah, but there are a few other choice females. The filmmaking is fine, especially considering the micro-budget, but the story perhaps needed more suspense. Still, I was impressed by the all-around quality of the filmmaking. The problem is the wooden acting, which makes it seem like the actors are reading their lines from a teleprompter; not all the time, but often enough that it mars the movie. All writer/director Jake Helgren needed was more professional actors, but he obviously didn’t have the money for it. Nevertheless, if you can acclimate to the stilted tone of the verbiage, this is an entertaining traditional slasher. As usual, some of the characters are repellent, but there are likable (or bearable) ones as well. The notable football movie “Varsity Blues” (1999) was shot in the same high school where this one was filmed, which happens to be the alma mater of Helgren. The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot just east of Austin, Texas, in the towns of Elgin, Smithville, Bastrop & McDade. Elgin used to be called Hogeye, the name of the town in the story, but it was changed for obvious reasons. GRADE: C/C-

Wuchak03 Apr, 2021