Star Vehicle (2010)

Star Vehicle (2010)
aka: Bleading Lady
Director: Ryan Nicholson
Writer: Ryan Nicholson
Cast: Dan Ellis, Sindy Faraguna, Nathan Durec
Star Vehicle follows the downward spiral of movie driver Donald Cardini, a self-professed movie buff with a penchant for explosive violence when provoked. Driving the stars of low-budget movies, along with their fragile egos, to and from locations in the middle of nowhere, pushes Don's buttons in all of the wrong directions. When Luke, the young and self-absorbed writer/director challenges Don's authority, murder and mayhem ensues. The movie's Scream Queen' starlet, Riversa Red, to her dismay finds herself the target of Don's obsession. With his encyclopedic knowledge of her "body" and body of work, Don worms his way onto Riversa's good side, no easy task. Not knowing whether to fear or friend Don, Riversa finds herself at the center of a cyclone with Luke and Don both vying for her attention. A mysterious Hotel Bellboy and an unknown "watcher in the woods" lend themselves to the growing suspense as the cast and crew hold-up at Forest Grove Lodge.

Plots about a low budget horror production that goes wrong, when the movies driver Don Cardini starts to pursue the films lead actress scream queen Riversa Red. Starts innocent enough with him being overly helpful but eventually Don goes too far and starts killing the crew and co-stars.

A few of the little horror genre gags are fun to start with, but the idea becomes boring way too soon. With minor hits like Live Feed, Gutterballs and Hanger behind him It's FX artist turned director Ryan Nicholson's weakest feature to date, and no doubt the reason why it struggled to get a distribution deal for so long.

(3 out of 10)