More low-res found footage hijinks, this time taking place at the dawn of the new millennium. After some random footage we get running with Maggie Levin’s Shredding. A pop-punk band abuses your ears and runs around acting like idiots. They break into the abandoned underground location of a legendary art collective that closed down a few years prior due to an electrical fire which claimed the lives of the four-piece playing a show. A band called Bitch Cat. Their death was all the more tragic because it seems they were trampled by their own fans, who left them there to burn to death. One band mate is terrified that the spirits of Bitch Cat will be waiting for them and it won’t end well. He’s right. The paranormally powered Bitch Cat are ready to strike and make a mess of things. Cool-looking zombie ladies and annoying victims make for a fun but not exactly memorable time. Although, it does feature a surrealistically horrific final shot. Next up is Suicide Bid from Johannes Roberts. A desperate young woman partakes in a sorority hazing ritual where the awful sorority bitches bury her alive. There’s a legend behind the ritual where years ago a pledge underwent the same process but was left there for a week. When they dug her up, there was nothing inside. It doesn’t take long for fear and paranoia to magnify the malicious pranking from her tormentors and the addition of spiders has her freaked. The cops arrive and the girls freak out, leaving our girl in the fucking lurch. A downpour seals the poor girl’s fate but also opens the door to something horrifying. Bring on the revenge! Intense little number hits all the right notes and resembles a well-produced episode of Tales from the Crypt or Darkside. Its EC heart is in the right place. Ozzy’s Dungeon from Flying Lotus finds the scuzzy host (national treasure Steven Ogg) of a Double Dare/Legends of the Hidden Temple-ish show forced to partake in a nightmarish obstacle course thanks to a horrific accident that happened to a young girl on his show. The cast is game and it’s suitably disgusting but that doesn’t necessarily make it enjoyable. Things get weird as it draws to a close but much like Lotus’ 2017 film Kuso, I kind of just shrugged instead of feeling anything else. The Gawkers from Tyler MacIntyre finds some loser teenage boys stalking the hot girl who just moved into a neighborhood house. Thanks to spyware, they’re able to watch her on her new computer setup and it doesn’t take them long to learn she’s a lot more than human. I’m all for a Gorgon causing shit in a suburban home but it feels like it’s missing a pulse. Finally, Vanessa and Joseph Winter bring us To Hell and Back where two filmmakers are invited by a cult to capture a summoning ritual on New Years Eve. It goes wrong and the likable duo end up in Hell where they attempt to get the fuck out of there with the help of a savvy lost soul. The stop-motion interludes are pretty fun and the final story is a blast but everything else unfortunately feels like it’s going at half speed and couldn’t be bothered to try a little harder.
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