Main cast: Eden Campbell (Cassandra Blain), Jason Brooks (Benjamin Newman), Esha More (Sara), Nigel Vonas (John Blain), Collin Fischer (Tommy Blain), Nika Kleiman (Brooke), Mahsa Shokri (Karly), Ryan Chen (Chris), Shay Jensen (Victim #2), Scott Mullet (The Restaurant Owner), Lee Raymond (Victim #1), Jon Meggison (Trick or Treater), Mason Meggison (Trick or Treater), Amy Erickson (Nurse #1), and Christine Rose Allen (Nurse #2)
Director: Jeremy Rudd

Jeremy Rudd basically did most of the things in Die’ced, including helping to cast the actors, writing the script, and directing the whole thing.

Predictably, this is a super low budget film, to the point that people playing bit characters such as Nurses #1 and #2 are given top billing. I can only wonder whether these actors are actually folks that contributed the most money for some kind of fundraising for this film and being in the movie is one of the rewards for such generosity.

Then again, maybe it’s just a way to pad the runtime, as these credits roll painfully slowly, interspersed with scenes of the lead character Cassandra Blain slowly doing her morning jog. She’s not wearing anything skimpy and there are no deranged lunatics stalking her, so it’s not like it’s an exciting opening credit roll, mind you.

Anyway, fairly or not, this one has me thinking that Jeremy Rudd had seen Terrifier and the sequel and went, hey, he could do something like that too.

There isn’t much of a plot here. A nutcase, Benjamin Newman, was accidentally released from a lunatic pen, and instead of the alerting the police or maybe the SWAT team—Benjamin was incarcerated for brutally killing his parents and dismembering their body parts so that he could play with these bits—the staff decide to just hide all evidence that he was ever in that loony pen in the first place.

Yes, this is a movie, so let’s just play along that it is indeed easy to mistakenly let loose a psycho and then cover up the mistake.

So, Benjamin goes around killing some random people before ending up at a party in which our lead character Cassandra is also at. There’s something about her MIA mother and a possibly psychotic ex of hers hanging around too, but don’t get too hung up on details. The movie doesn’t!

Instead, this one focuses on the gore, which should be the only reason why anyone would want to watch this thing on a voluntary basis. Unfortunately, there isn’t much of that either even for something like this that has a short runtime of below one hour. While I do commend these guys for using practical effects, the gore effects are hit or miss. Some looks pretty good, but more often than not, the other scenes look very fake.

I try not hold the less than sterling practical effects against the folks behind this movie, as this thing is obviously made on a minuscule budget, but there isn’t much else to make up for this. The acting is “breathing through my mouth as I try not to glance helplessly at the camera” tier, and the lines uttered by these actors are abysmally bad.

Still, there are some remarkably hilarious, albeit unintentionally, scenes such as the guy playing the lead female character’s brother trying to emote only to end up ugly fake crying in a most comical manner.

These scenes are the only reason why I am giving this one an oogie more than it deserves. This movie makes me laugh for a bit here and there, even if it’s in ways that Mr Rudd may not appreciate, so hey, at least I’m not completely apathetic to it!