Savage Harvest 2: October Blood (2006) Starring Emily Haack, Benjamin Gaa, Eric Stanze, Jonathan Baker & David Propst Written & Directed by Jason Christ

A chance encounter at a local restaurant has Ashley and Tyge cross paths leading them to spark up a conversation that says they may have been an item at one point in time. Ashley is the only one that reveals her grief while Tyge stays a little more introverted to his personal life.

Tyge than explains all that Ashley spilled to his new roommates Deke (David Propst) and Zack (Eric Stanze) - Zack of whom had his entire family murdered at the same time as Ashley's sister killed herself, and yes it is tied together.

Zack, after hearing Tyge's secrets about Ashley, begins to tell Tyge everything he fears happened to his family the night of their murder. He explains the notion of an Indian curse on the land as well as certain rocks found on the site that have different emblems on them that are a source of evil to whomever it holds forcing Ashley and Tyge not to fully believe the possibilities of Zack's theory at first.

However, curiosity and the continuing dwelling of Zack hunting for the truth leads the group of them to the farm to investigate what took place. This is the part of the movie where it goes from mystery to holy shit!

Let's just say that once on the farm, all hell breaks loose. People end up getting possessed zombie-like and start to try and eat the others. Even the poor saps that are living on the farm at the time end up getting caught in the demonic takeover. The ending sums up the movie in a nut shell but definitely leaves the door open for some more interpretations.

What the story gave us is what people go through when they are grieving. The family member that can't let go and believes something else happened to their loved one other than what was first perceived, or the fact that if you think something is cursed, rather than poking your head around in it it's probably best you leave well enough alone because chances are whatever cursed thing happened to someone else, will more than likely happen to you.

Christ's directing greatly pushed on the suspense, and kept the ball moving to the point where you didn't really feel like you were watching a two-hour film, that's how greatly paced it was.

The one chink in the armor would have to go to the acting. Now, in a film like this no one goes into it expecting to see an Academy Award winning performance, but to at least give credit every actor was good and played their parts greatly, it was how it was delivered sometimes that gave a little chuckle. I personally would have to give big-ups to Emily Haack, while watching I didn't see her miss a step once or over-do it on a particular line or action. She really carried most of the movie. But the overall best aspect of this horror fest was that of the bloody special effects that ensued during the Third Act.

You can have bad directing which sometimes gives a film its charm. You can have bad acting which makes the movie a little bit more entertaining because you can sense how the actors had fun which makes the movie more enjoyable, at least sometimes. But if you have a bad story and bad special effects, your horror world comes crashing down.

Kick-ass eye gouges, dismemberments, buckets of blood spray, and even a castration by chainsaw scene throws "Harvest" into the win column for me. That's the way it should be with horror, loads of fun for the whole family. Hell, my two, seven, and eight year olds even watched it with me and loved it. Now that is the sign of a good horror flick, when kids are slightly scared and say "cool" during scenes most people gag at.

For me, I wouldn't want it any other way.