 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2019 film that did really well in the festival circuit a scare package Which is a comedy horror film and it's a shutter original It's on shutter at the moment when I'm recording this and putting this review out It is streaming on shutter So if you have shutter you can check it out there and I do recommend it since this just hit shutter I'm sorry. I'm not going to be doing spoilers in this and What I am gonna be doing is giving it a few ratings I'm gonna write rate each individual short because it's a bunch of short films put together as one with one wrap around and I'll give one individual rating for each one of the shorts And then I'll give one overall for the whole film But I do recommend it up front especially if you're a real horror nerd Because there are a lot of jokes in it and a lot of you know Just small things kind of added in there as well That speak directly to the horror nerd people who really need to be deep into the genre to kind of get certain things So for that reason, I actually don't know if this horror comedy would be that funny or entertaining for people who aren't You know relatively deep into the horror community. So I don't know but I enjoyed it. So The directing is consistent in this that's one thing I wanted to say overall Is that the directing that's done in it is quite good in my opinion? And I don't think there were anywhere I was watching it and being like ooh the directing is not so hot in this So very solid technically with this film The other thing is for the most part the music used throughout is really well done and the editing is good now I do think the film could have been edited down a little bit because it's an hour I think with credits like an hour and 47 minutes or something like that So for a horror comedy to be that long, it's a little long and it does feel a little bit long at times But I'm not really gonna complain about it because it's good. I enjoy it there are a few Particular shorts that I wasn't that fond of and I'll end up telling you why without spoilers, but And I think they could have kind of left those out to cut the runtime down But you know it is what it is and I'm just happy to get another horror comedy because there aren't that many out There and they're not easy to execute, which is why I'm excited that this one's good All right, so the first one which was the beginning and that's the order I'm going in all the shorts the first one and then it goes on the first one is called cold open now This one was written and directed by Emily Haggins. I Wrote down it was a pretty original idea. I really like that. It's kind of outside of the box It's very meta as far as horror and film goes Uses a lot of horror trap, you know typical horror trappings to kind of Sell the story and it does have good comedy to it Some of the acting in it is a little bit rough But they they hit the acting where it matters the most which is the lead in The story that person does a really good job with the acting and they bring a real fun Feeling to the delivery of the lines and the way they play that character out So that's what really sells it in my opinion that in the actual writing of it There's some really funny over-the-top gore in this one that I really enjoy I always appreciate over-the-top gore that is comedic over-the-top gore and this one actually has that So yeah, so I give that short open cold open an overall of three and a half stars out of five I quite enjoyed that one The next one is the one that's actually overarching like that's the one that kind of brings everything together And you see it numerous times in between a bunch of the Short films and then it finishes at the end in a much longer segment than I thought it was gonna have so overall It's actually relatively long and that one's rad chads horror Emporium and then it goes into horror hypothesis Now this one was Directed by Aaron B. Koontz and it was written by it was directed by Aaron B. Koontz and written by I think Koontz But also Cameron Burns. I think it was a Mainly Cameron Burns who was the writer for it So this one actually has some of the best comedic moments in it for the entire film and I really enjoy that And it I love the fact that it kind of serves to bring everything together And I think it does a good job of bringing everything together holding it all together it's all about the setting and the setting plays very very heavily to Well, I mean the film in general, but this particular short the setting of it plays to the Horror nerds who grew up in the times of renting horror movies from places like Blockbuster and you know Family video stores and stuff like that Specifically this focuses on VHS tapes, but you get that same feel if you hit it during the times of you know Renting DVDs so it plays off a lot of that nostalgia and it actually I mean in general It plays off a lot of kind of horror tropes from the 80s mainly And you kind of get that with you know all the 80s feel they have to it the outfits the music in particular music is very 80s Which may be part of the reason I like it so much This one goes the Rad Shad's one goes way further and way way deeper than you're expecting it to it seems very On the surface with some you know kind of deep jokes But it doesn't feel like it's gonna get deep story wise, but it does and that's like That's one of the coolest things about this now That doesn't really spoil anything because you have no idea what that really means and it gets fun It gets interesting and it has a lot to say and I think it's quite well written There's a joke at the almost very end of this That had me laughing out loud pretty hard now I've actually watched this twice now because I watch it when Joe Bob Briggs premiered it And then I just watched it today again And I laughed really really hard the first time I saw that joke and the second time I watched it I still laughed which which is you know pretty impressive because I Takes a lot to get me to laugh now It's it's a joke that you kind of either have to be a pretty considerable horror nerd to get it Or you need to just remember one particular film that needs to stick out in your head It was good. It was a good joke. I really enjoyed it and I felt like I was enjoying it and then once that joke happened it bump my enjoyment even further up It was it was nice. So overall I give the rad Chad's one a four out of five stars. It's quite well done I enjoyed that Then the next one, which is actually my favorite of all of them one time in the woods This one was written and directed by Chris McEnroy. This one is Really tight really well done. The writing is good the acting is a little yeah, but the directing is good writing is good Cinematography is good practical effects are really good. This actually has the best practical effects in the entire thing and Some really good over-the-top funny gore like I was just saying I really enjoy and it's an Interesting mash-up story-wise of a few different sub-genres and it just it works really well And this had a lot of the best jokes coming through as well And it was just like joke joke joke joke like funny funny funny like it just kept hitting with the funny It was the quintessential what you want horror comedy to be for the most part So that was my favorite short of all it really came together and for that reason I'm giving that four and a half out of five stars. It's quite good Then there was the one mister, which is actually my least favorite of all of them now. This one was Directed by Noah Segan who also stars in it and he also did some of the writing on it and Frank Garcia Hegel also did writing on that This plays at the idea of kind of like toxic masculinity and it uses a metaphor for it Which I thought the idea was good and the metaphor was a good start But the problem is that I feel like the script wasn't that fleshed out all that great. It's a good idea There's a good idea, but the execution of it isn't so great And I'm not talking about execution from the technical standpoint of when they shot it or the acting really I'm talking from the standpoint of the writing the script just wasn't there and it's not funny That's the other thing there are a few things that are you know, maybe a little bit funny But it did a lot of the jokes just didn't land it just and it felt like it didn't really go anywhere that mattered and I don't know. It also felt way too short I think they really needed to kind of expand the time on that to really flesh out the story more make it more interesting and Make it funnier. So I gave it one and a half out of five stars. I didn't enjoy that one Then another one that I didn't like a ton, but there was an aspect of it I really did this one's called girls night out of body now This was directed by Courtney and a jar and Hilary and a jar and written by Ben Fee Overall I thought okay, so the biggest problem for me was story wise. There's not much of a story there It seems very confused It seems to not have a focus of what it actually wants to do or how it wants to do it It felt feels like also it's trying to do a little bit too much at certain times with a very small amount of time They should have focused a little bit more taking some more passes at the script to really, you know Make it one good thing. The other thing is it's not funny at all. There's no comedy to it at all So it doesn't really feel like it fits with all the other stories But for the good things that I'll say oh the other thing is there's a really odd There are a few odd moments where it's like weirdly blurry The visuals are blurry and maybe that's intentional, but it doesn't look intentional. It just looks bad. So I Didn't like that aspect of it, but the positives So I was gonna give this one and a half stars But the positives that I'm about to talk about has had me bump it up The use of lighting and colors in this actually look really good and it's extremely stylish the way it was shot Of all the shorts it looks the best direct directing and cinematography wise It's very stylish. It has a very cool sleek look and feel to it and they do some cool things with the camera Good directing very good directing. I would like to see Courtney and Jarr and Hilary and Jarr do Something else direct something else. Maybe they can write their own thing. I don't know but their directing is really good And this I think that one also had the best music of all of them, too So there's some positives So overall I give it two stars because that's script not having a good script brings it way way way down It just kind of feels like after you watch it, you're like, okay The next one is the night he came back again part for the final kill Which I think is a funny title. This one is directed by Anthony Cousins and written by John Karsko This is another kind of zany over-the-top one of the shorts I like the fact that once again it kind of has some gore that's done over the top so that it's funny It goes full throttle with the gore and the violence. It is not backing down. It's just going for it And I appreciate that about it It is it isn't over-the-top to a point where you don't like it though because some of the stuff gets done You know with horror comedies you can go too far over the top where people just like that's not actually very funny It went over the top just enough and in the right way to appeal to people And it actually plays very hard at one particular thing about slasher films that they all have in common with Well, I'm not gonna say anything about that The acting at times is a little So that kind of detracts from it, but overall I like the story I like the way it was executed and I'm giving it a three-star rating So I enjoyed it and then the last one is so much to do now This one was written and directed by Baron Vaughn And the interesting thing I thought is it speaks to a societal obsession in a very hyperbolic way now I like it at first, but then the way it finishes I felt like it stepped over that line of ridiculousness and it got slap-sticky and it was kind of I just it it um I think if they would have finished it a different way it would have gone a lot better for me I the setup is really good and actually looks really good the directing on this one is nice The acting is really good too. It's some of the best acting in the entire thing. So I really enjoyed that It's a good premise. It's a good societal commentary It's just it didn't come together as you would want in the end The ending actually felt kind of over-the-top slap-sticky kind of dumb Had they just kind of worked on that ending a little bit more it could have been a lot better But I enjoyed it enough. I will say so I'm giving that one two stars out of five So that was it for for the actual individual shorts The it had a really fun ending To this in particular and really great music to match that fun cool ending There's a lot of smart stuff going on in this film Like I said, it really hits a lot of notes for for people who are deep into the horror community Like real horror nerds. So this it endears itself to people like myself and a lot of you watching I'm sure who Yeah, just getting nerdy about horror and you know a lot about you know, the typical happenings in horror films, especially for the 80s now I enjoyed this and like I said, I just love that it's another Horror comedy because we don't get a ton of them and when we do get some they're just not very good so for it to be well done and You know, it's another horror comedy. That's great. So I say bravo for this one. Good job. And I'm going to give it overall Four out of five stars. I'm I'm happy with it and I would love to see a scare package too because that's one of the things you could keep going with something like this and they could even keep some of the same idea that they had for the wraparound story And just do that same type of thing And then just put in, you know, new directors new writers. Just keep it going You know, you could go up to scare package 10 if you want to you could have a whole franchise of scare package, which I would be All in for but awesome. So thanks everyone for checking this out real quick though. Put some comments down here We will make the comments spoilers. So go ahead if you don't want spoilers at the moment Don't comment at the moment unless you just want to go down comment without reading anything. That's fine So let's talk about these down there. But do me a quick favor hit that subscribe if you like any videos I do Because that's your best way to repay me Literally takes a second and it's totally painless and I appreciate it a lot If you're already subscribed, though, make sure you hit that like button. Just let me know I'm still You're still enjoying my stuff and also if you are going to subscribe or if you've already subscribed Make sure you hit the notification bell. 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