Blood Barn

2025

Action / Horror

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 80%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 4.1/10 10 447 447

barn slasher campy teenager horror comedy

Plot summary

To celebrate the last summer before college, Josie invites 6 fellow camp counselors to her family's abandoned barn. As their presence stirs a supernatural malevolent force, Josie faces a shrouded history in order to save her friends.

Director

Gabriel Bernini Photo
Gabriel Bernini

Top cast

Felipe di Poi Photo
Felipe di Poi as Paul
Samuel Lanier Photo
Samuel Lanier as Eric
Chloe Cherry Photo
Chloe Cherry as Rachel
Lena Redford Photo
Lena Redford as Josie
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703.51 MB
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
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1.27 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 16 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 4 / 10

A watchable, but generic horror movie...

Given my love of all things horror and the cover of "Blood Barn" being what it was, of course I needed no persuasion to watch the movie as I stumbled upon it here in 2026. Sure, with it being a horror movie that I had neither seen before nor actually heard about also helped to sweeten the deal. And since I had no idea what I was in for here, then I suppose director Gabriel Bernini had every opportunity to bedazzle and entertain me.The storyline in "Blood Barn", as written by Gabriel Bernini and Alexandra Jade, was straightforward, but a bit on the generic and bland side. Sure, the movie was watchable, but it was by no means a stellar foray into the horror genre.One thing that certainly worked in favor of "Blood Barn" was the fact that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list. Yup, I actually do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were fair.The special effects in "Blood Barn" were not bad for a movie such as this, and that certainly helped sweeten the deal.I believe newcomers to the horror genre will enjoy this movie far more than I did as a seasoned horror veteran with more than 40 years of watching horror movies. For me, this was hardly a movie that warrants more than a single viewing.My rating of director Gabriel Bernini's 2025 movie "Blood Barn" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Reviewed by bigbadbassface 4 / 10

When Modern Styling Breaks the Illusion

Blood Barn is a fun, low-budget throwback with a clear love for 80s horror. The practical effects and campy tone mostly work, and it knows exactly what kind of B-movie it wants to be. However, some of the noticeably modern cosmetic styling, particularly the exaggerated lip filler look on one of the leads, felt out of place for the retro aesthetic. It pulled me out of the illusion at times and hurt the overall sense of authenticity. Still, it's a watchable B-grade homage that genre fans will likely appreciate, even if certain visual choices prove distracting.
Reviewed by kannibalcorpsegrinder 6 / 10

A fun enough if slightly flawed genre homage

Taking a road trip together, a group of friends heads to a family farmhouse to have a fun weekend partying together at a remote barn on the property, but when the weekend is turned upside down as the group is possessed by supernatural demons, they must find a way to stop them.Overall, this was a solid enough genre effort. Among the better elements here involve a series of enjoyable and rather obvious homage pieces to the past that create a genuinely cheesy atmosphere. Focusing on the group's arrival and series of antics about getting laid or thinking up unique drinking games to play with each other, the first half here spreads a rather fun example of the kind of cheesy atmosphere present with how we get to know the group and the various archetypes they fill while getting to know them and their personalities. Hardly anything here is groundbreaking, but it's all handled well enough that it checks the necessary marks about what's going on at the barn while also dropping just enough hints at something happening around the outskirts, with the ground shown absorbing their clothing or the flash visuals of bloodied figures hanging out around the group. That all sets up the frantic and highly enjoyable final half, where the whole thing becomes a bit more obvious about what's going on when the group is targeted by the strange supernatural entity in the house. Swiftly moving through the group and possessing them to the point of leaving only one left unaffected. Which becomes a series of cheesy, energetic encounters trying to keep the infected member contained long enough to figure out what's going on, there's a great low-budget charm to the sequences here, with the cheap props and flimsy effects selling the idea of everything more than the realism of what's happening. That falls more in line with how the films they're homaging played out, also furthering the connection just like the storyline here, but this is still a rather fun feature.Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
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