8 Found Dead (2023)

After its UK premiere at this year's Grimmfest, Travis Greene's 8 FOUND DEAD gets a digital release from High Fliers.

Two young couples prepare to spend Memorial Day weekend at an isolated desert retreat while the daughter of the owner busies herself cleaning it up from previous renters before relaxing by the pool. But who's that wielding an axe and why when the first couple gets there is there another, older couple already in residence? Meanwhile the local police are investigating a 911 distress call that claims multiple murders. Could everything possibly be linked?

A film told through the medium of a fractured narrative (which becomes more apparent as the story progresses), 8 FOUND DEAD desperately wants to be in the same mode as the recent, and superior, BODIES BODIES BODIES, but lacks both the wit and the creativity to do so. Instead it quickly becomes apparent that its jostling of timelines is nothing more than a gimmick to spice up a tired idea, with not even all the shuffling around sufficient to make the 82 minute run time feel anything other than very stretched out by the end. From the press quotes on the poster one can only assume that 'Bains Film' hasn't watched very many horror films. Or possibly any.  

Travis Greene's 8 FOUND DEAD is out on digital from High Fliers on Monday 23rd October 2023