The Homicide Podcast Evaluation

PLOT: A podcasting duo will get greater than they bargained for once they resolve to research a neighborhood homicide.

REVIEW: Author/director William Bagley’s horror comedy The Homicide Podcast begins with a person – who’s described as being each an avid gamer and an avid drinker – taking a hike within the woods. He finds an outdated coin on the bottom and pockets it… which seems to be a deadly mistake. This coin doesn’t belong to the legendary horror icon the Leprechaun, however there may be one other supernatural being on the market who has made it their mission to kill anybody who possesses the coin. So by the top of the evening, the man has actually misplaced his head.

After that, we’re launched to the lead characters, Chad Thadwick (Andrew McDermott) and his finest bro Eddie (Cooper Bucha). Chad doesn’t do a lot along with his life apart from sit within the basement of the home that belongs to his sister Martha (Logan Mariner) and smoke weed, which causes him to bump heads with Martha’s boyfriend Stephen (Brian Emond), however he does aspire to one thing better. With Eddie’s assist, he information a podcast that’s all about reviewing completely different ramen noodle dishes. Sadly, Chad’s ardour for ramen isn’t sufficient to attract in listeners. So he decides to take the podcast in a special route: true crime. There’s a subject that will get listeners. And fortuitously, a headless physique has simply turned up in Chad and Eddie’s hometown. The corpse of that man from the opening sequence. Police don’t suspect foul play, however Chad is definite that this fellow didn’t simply journey so arduous that his head popped off. So he – with Eddie tagging alongside – takes it upon himself to research the loss of life. And document a podcast about it alongside the way in which.

Chad and Eddie expect to assist the police pressure, primarily represented by Levi Burdick as Officer Stacheburn, seize a flesh and blood killer. As a substitute, they make themselves the subsequent targets for the supernatural being that destroys anybody who has the coin.

The Homicide Podcast is a really entertaining film that was clearly made on a minuscule price range, however overcomes any limitations with the power of its comedic writing and performances. The moments of explosive bloodshed have been additionally a lot appreciated, and at occasions made the movie come off like a mix of stoner comedies and the Evil Lifeless franchise. Scenes the place folks get possessed enterprise into Evil Lifeless territory as properly… and when Chad and Eddie go into battle armed with squirt weapons, The Homicide Podcast brings to thoughts the likes of The Misplaced Boys and From Nightfall Until Daybreak. Scenes are introduced nearly fully in a comedic mild, however Bagley and cinematographer Alex Allgood additionally drop in some good “wander by way of the darkish home” / “the darkish woods” sequences that verge on creepy.

Chad is the character who actually drives the story ahead, and McDermott provides a enjoyable efficiency that took me some time to get used to. He speaks the character’s strains in a uniquely boisterous approach that made it tough for me to really feel any emotion from Chad. It was like he was all the time excitedly welcoming listeners to a different episode of a podcast. However because the movie went on, I began getting used to Chad and noticed that McDermott was bringing depth and emotion to the character in any case. It helps that the story additionally will get deeper because the film goes alongside, with Bagley revealing that the risk has some ties to Chad’s father, whose life acquired relatively tragic when Chad was a teenager.

McDermott has an incredible supporting solid round him, with all the actors talked about on this evaluation doing robust work of their roles. McDermott and Bucha make for an incredible duo, and it’s enjoyable to look at McDermott bounce off all the opposite characters which are pissed off with Chad, which is just about anybody he ever crosses paths with. Together with douchey newscaster Burn Nightly (Chris Mayers).

The Homicide Podcast marks the characteristic debut of Bagley, who labored his approach as much as this by making brief movies. It’s a stable begin to what is going to hopefully pan out to be a prolonged profession, as a result of this film has left me anxiously ready to see extra from the author/director. And if what’s subsequent would occur to be one other horror comedy that includes Chad and Eddie, I wouldn’t object.

The Homicide Podcast will likely be obtainable to look at on digital platforms as of October 26th.