Friday, November 24, 2023 Midnight
Horror/Comedy/Action
United Kingdom, 2023, 95 min
Language: English
Director: Stewart Sparke
Writers: Stewart Sparke, Paul Butler
Producers: Jon Vangdal Aamaas, Nick Ford, Alex Joyner
Cast: Lyndsey Craine, Arron Dennis, Fenfen Huang, Daniel Thrace
Contact: Dark Rift Horror
We like Lovecraftian horror films so much, let’s have two this year!
When the police arrive at a brutal massacre in a remote cabin, they find one lone survivor—Jamie. She claims her innocence and asserts that her friends were really torn apart and eaten by a horrific monster. The police lock her up, but as Jamie’s Lovecraftian monster attack starts to make more sense, it’s going to be up to the rookie cops, Jamie, and her fellow jailbirds to stop the oncoming insane invasion from another dimension.
HOW TO KILL MONSTERS clearly aims to be over-the-top with an abundance of monsters realised entirely with practical effects, and enough buckets of blood and guts to satisfy the craving of any horror fan thirsting for an old-school, popcorn horror film.
Director Stewart Sparke says HOW TO KILL MONSTERS is a “love letter to the 80s and 90s horror movies that I grew up watching on VHS.” He adds that the film will inject “a dash of British humour in the vein of HOT FUZZ and the self-aware twists and turns of SCREAM to deliver genre fans a blood-soaked popcorn horror movie that feels both nostalgic and fresh.”
“If you happen to be in the mood for an unashamedly old-school monster movie with dedicated performances, tons of practical creatures and gore effects, and enough jokes to leave you in stitches, this really is not a film you can afford to miss.” David Gelmini Dread Central
“HOW TO KILL MONSTERS Serves Up Blood and Laughs By the Bucketful” James Doherty Daily Dead
“So How To Kill Monsters is all at once a Lovecraftian rewrite of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) – with a lot of Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984) and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (1987) thrown in – and a splatterfest of Eighties-style practical effects, Raimi-esque pandemonium and blood by the bucketload.” Anton Bitel Projected Figures