Thankfully, I’ve never had pink eye. I hear it can be pretty vicious, especially if contracted in a way similar to that of the guys in KNOCKED UP.
But don’t you worry… at first glance it looks like PINK EYE actually doesn’t have much to do with pink eye at all. PINK EYE is set in a small town in upstate New York, at a prison-like, dilapidated insane asylum where secret drug testing has gone inexplicably wrong. Patients are dying in sick and twisted ways and those who survive are becoming raging, homicidal lunatics. It’s only a matter of time before all hell breaks loose and the patients begin to crave freedom to take their vengeance out on the world outside. When one patient does escape deformed, angry and far beyond insane, he brings death and terror to an unsuspecting town and everyone in it. He captures a young woman which prompts her boyfriend to try and rescue her.
So I suppose there’s room in there somewhere for the fun disease. Otherwise this sounds like a pretty cool slasher flick! Consider me interested!
A couple other positive notes: PINK EYE is described as ‘a gory horror flick’ and stars the gorgeous Melissa Bacelar (below). The flick seems to be a pretty grisly one with rape, gore, and a mask that looks like a dried out, carved apple depicting a shrunken head. A review over at IMDB has this one sounding pretty intense, with a villain to take note of.
It comes from a script by Joshua Nelson with James Tucker directing. We last saw Tucker writing, directing, and starring in SKINNED ALIVE for Lionsgate. Along with Bacelar, it stars Joshua Nelson, Joshua James, Ed Avila, Emma Hinz, Bridget Megan Clark, Jeff Spinner, and Raine Brown.
Halo-8 are looking at a September 30 DVD release with a limited theatrical run this summer, so be on the lookout!