Vicious Fun

Vicious Fun

Credits
Title:	Vicious Fun
Directed by:	Cody Calahan
Written by:	James Villeneuve; Cody Calahan
Produced by:	Chad Archibald; Cody Calahan; Nat Abraham; Ira Levy; Michael McGuigan; Peter Bevan; Mariana Sanjurjo; Tomás Yankelevich; Jessica Butland; Denis Coyne; Craig McGillivray; Mark Myers; Leanne Brennan;
Music by:	Steph Copeland
Cinematography:	Jeff Maher
Edited by:	Mike Gallant
Production
Production:	Particular Crowd Black Fawn Films Breakthrough Entertainment
Distributors:	Breakthrough Entertainment
Released:	October 8th, 2020
Rating:	TV-MA
Running time:	101 min.
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
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Vicious Fun is a Canadian independent feature film of the slasher and comedy subgenres of horror. It was directed by Cody Calahan with a screenplay written by James Villeneuve based on a story treatment by Calahan. It was co-produced by Particular Crowd, Black Fawn Films, Breakthrough Entertainment, Citizen Skull Productions, and Radioactive Pictures. It premiered at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain on October 8th, 2020. The film stars Evan Marsh as the central protagonist Joel with Amber Goldfarb as the female lead, Carrie. Rounding out the list of featured antagonists are Ari Millen as Bob (calculated metrosexual killer), Julian Richings as Fritz (accountant/killer clown), Robert Maillet as Mike (Sorority house slasher), Sean Baek as Hideo (stealthy Asian cannibal), and David Koechner as Zachary (Black ops company man).

Plot[]

Joel - Vicious Fun — Meet Joel. He's kind of a douche.

Joel is a young man from Washington who is a horror movie reviewer for a magazine called Vicious Fanatics. He lives with a roommate named Sarah, whom he is secretly in love with, but she has no interest in him. Joel learns that Sarah is dating a real estate agent named Bob. Joel tracks Bob to a Chinese restaurant, and pretends to start up a budding friendship with the man. The two spend their time at the restaurant's bar, and Joel gets highly inebriated. Bob leaves, and Joel stumbles about until he passes out in a supply closet.

Killer crew — And these are Joel's new friends... for now.

When he awakens, the restaurant is closed, but finds five individuals sitting in a circle of chairs - apparently members of some sort of after-hours support group. The group is led by a man named Zachary and includes Fritz, Mike, Hideo and Carrie. There is an empty chair for someone named Phil. The group, having never met Phil, mistake Joel for their missing member and invite him into the group. Joel soon discovers that this is not a self-help group for alcoholics or drug abusers, but rather, for serial killers. Bob returns to the restaurant, and Joel realize that he is part of the killer crew as well.

Carrie - Vicious Fun — This is Carrie. She's not what you think.

Once the killers realize that Joel is not actually one of them, they attempt to kill him. Joel flees into the kitchen and the killers pursue him. At this point, Carrie reveals that she is not actually a member of their group, but is actually an assassin, who works for an unidentified organization that targets serial killers.

Bob and Joel — Bob is not having the best of days.

While Joel stumbles about drunkenly vomiting and panicking, Carrie is now tasked with protecting him from the others. During the chaos, Joel triggers a fire alarm, which sends a signal to the local police. The killers retreat to avoid capture, but Joel and Carrie are both arrested.

At the police station, they are placed inside a jail cell, and Joel frantically tries to invoke his "one phone call" promise in the hopes of calling Sarah to warn her about Bob. Bob soon arrives at the station disguised as a Federal agent. After earning the trust of the attending police officers, he plies them with alcohol and then kills them.

Carrie and Joel escape from their jail cell and must now have a final confrontation with the surviving members of the psychotic crew.

Cast[]

Actor

Role

Joel

Carrie

Bob

Fritz

Mike

Hideo

Zachary

Sarah

Detective Doyle

Detective Hollands

Officer Tony

Phil

Jack Portwood

MacKenzie Boyd-Garrison

80's horror movie girl

Randy Thomas

80's horror movie doctor

Joanne Jansen

Cindy

Earl "Bubba" McLean, Jr.

Cab driver

Bartender

Jade

Doctor

Nurse

Clerk

Suzanne

Bar patron

Bar patron

Bar patron

Bar patron

Bar patron

Emergency worker

Emergency worker

Emergency worker

Emergency worker

Emergency worker

Emergency worker

Notes & Trivia[]

The tagline to this film is "Blood, murder and self-help".
There are a total of thirty-four credited cast members in this film.
This movie was shot in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Associate producer Christopher Warre Smets is credited as Christopher Smets in this film.
Associate producer Michael S.E. White is credited as Michael White in this film.
Vicious Fun was released on Blu-ray by RLJ Entertainment on April 5th, 2022.
The setting for this film is the U.S. state of Washington in the year 1983. The beginning of the film takes place in Minnesota.
On the Internet Movie Database, Vicious Fun has a star rating of 6.5 out of 10 based on more than 6,400 votes.
On the movie review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Vicious Fun holds a certified fresh Tomatometer rating of 88% based on forty-eight approved critic reviews, averaging 7.0 out of 10. It has 42 positive reviews and 6 negative reviews. It has an audience score of 68% based on more than fifty verified user ratings, averaging 3.6 out of 5.
On letterboxd, the film has a weighted average rating of 3.30 based on 9,902 ratings.

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