The public relations blurb received concerning “Storage Locker” rather indicated it was a horror movie. In fact it won the award of Best Feature and Best Director at the Hollywood Blood Horror Festival and has been screened at a few horror film festivals.
If you are looking for a “serious” horror film here and enjoying the chills and fright a good horror movie can produce you won’t find it here. It bombs on that premise. Could it then be a spoof as it fails the serious horror film test? Yes there is some humour and frantic and overly stereotypical characters. But if it is a spoof the best I could do was groan. Two overly made-up sisters Apollonia (Bobbie Grace) and Diana (Meredith Fowler) run a collector’s secret society. Storage lockers contain less than goods!
Packer (Avery Mayo) is an avid comic book collector hoping for a big score. Packer gets cozy with Apollonia and Diana and beds both of them after being spurned by his puerile and adolescent fiancé Jenny (Hannah Hufford).
Multiple plots zig zag throughout the film.
Mayo holds the film together with his acting which is not the case with the rest of the cast.
Even the stinky little ghoul that murders fails to frighten. Whether a spoof or an attempt at a serious horror movie the film fails. They say the best part of Las Vegas is leaving it. The best part of this film is that it is over. And it ends most incongruously.
“Storage Locker” will be released on digital platforms on August 22, 2023.
You can see the trailer here https://vimeo.com/846320373?share=copy . It is the only slightly horrific part of the film.
Written and directed by Ray Spivey.
RKS 2023 Film Rating 53/100.
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