Scare Package is a 2019 American anthology horror comedy film created by Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns.
[4] Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge was released on Shudder December 2022.
The frame narrative focuses on Chad Buckley, a horror aficionado who runs a struggling video store.
The shorts are films that are either described to other characters or viewed as one of the video rentals offered at the store.
Sam arrives at the checkout counter with a videotape he wants to rent and describes the opening of the movie, which begin the next segment, "One Time In The Woods".
As the day progresses Chad trains Hawn and a series of events prompts the launch of the other shorts, which make up a large portion of the film.
Chad is ultimately betrayed by Hawn, who was actually part of a scientific group running experiments on a serial killer known as the "Devil's Lake Impaler" under the video store.
When the Impaler inevitably overcomes his captors, Chad chooses to flee with the person he identifies as the final girl and the stoner.
The remaining group members reunite, at which point Chad realizes that he had misidentified the slut and final girl.
Their escape is halted when they discover that security protocol prevents the elevator from allowing them to reach the exit, however they are assisted by the sudden appearance of Joe Bob Briggs, who dies in the process.
Chad is then killed by the Impaler, who follows the true final girl and the stoner to the surface.
The arrow spins in the wrong direction, causing a group of unsuspecting young people on their way to a camp, to instead drive to the insane asylum.
Mike vents about his job to his friend Wendy, and in a series of flashbacks, Mike is at work planting satanic relics in an attic, fooling a house buying couple into buying a haunted house, and setting up a cursed doll.
Mike puts on a white mask to keep from being sprayed in the face with blood from Tess' wound, then picks up her bloody knife.
The Husband goes to the bathroom and notices a flyer advertising an organization called M.I.S.T.E.R., which stands for Men In Serious Turmoil Establishing Rights.
As The Husband ponders the flyer, we flashback to an argument between him and his wife where she complains about his lack of effort with the family and wants him to be a man.
After the meeting the leader talks with the Husband, encouraging him to join the group and invites him to a get-together happening that night.
We dissolve to the garage, where the killer wakes up, tied to a table, surrounded by Daisy and her friends.
Will tosses the killer's intestines over the ceiling beam and pulls, causing the legs to lift Chloe into the air, killing her.
The car parks and two mysterious men in all black drag the tied man to a grave site.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, writer/director/producer Aaron B. Koontz revealed his approach to creating a horror anthology.
"I'm a big fan of anthology films but knew we had to change the game up a bit," said Koontz in a statement.
The website's consensus reads: "Some of its contents are more entertaining than others, but genre fans should still find this Scare Package well worth opening.
"[8] Richard Whittaker of The Austin Chronicle gave it 3/5 stars, calling it "deliciously ghoulish and inspiringly idiotic".
[9] Bloody Disgusting's Meredith Borders gave it a score of 4/5, saying it was "charmingly aware of the tropes that make up the genre it cherishes, and it leans into them with heart, blood, entrails and laughs.
You'll have a good time with Scare Package – and you should hit up the bathroom beforehand, because you won't find any weak links here.
"[10] Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave it 0/4 stars, writing, "Your mileage may vary when it comes to this sort of pandering humor, but that doesn't make Scare Package more clever or less janky.
Most segments are so short that their creators barely establish and then mildly frustrate a basic set of expectations.
"[11] Rue Morgue's Michael Gingold wrote, "Perhaps it's unfair to base one's judgement of a movie so closely against its predecessors, but when its primary goal is to demonstrate that it's smarter than the genre's run-of-the-mill, comparison with others of its type is unavoidable–and, in this case, unflattering.
The film premiered at Fright Fest in August, before streaming exclusively on Shudder in December,[13] which was called a "superior and superbly silly sequel" by MovieWeb.