Savage Harvest (1994)

The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil ... See full summary »

Director:

Eric Stanze

Writer:

Eric Stanze

Stars:

Lisa Morrison, Ramona Midgett, William Clifton

Cast

Cast overview:
Lisa Morrison	...	Mikki
Ramona Midgett	...	Karen
William Clifton	...	Mark
David Berliner	...	Jeff
D.J. Vivona	...	Nathan
Rebecca Horn	...	Loretta (as Rebecca Kennebeck)
Rick Fischer	...	Uncle Gary
Pat Coffey	...	Trish
Tommy Biondo	...	Aunt Linda
Jerry Bates	...	Retlawkoob
Wes Robertson	...	The Indian elder
Jason Shepherd	...	The motorist
Eric Stanze	...	Voice of radio announcer

Storyline

The agony and death of the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee elder, desperate to aid his people. Demons bursting into our world to destroy the entire tribe. And a great flood that washes the evil up into our modern world. The demons await the smell of the returning Cherokee's blood and soon sense the arrival of the elder's descendent. This triggers the demons' ability to possess human beings. The land that was once inhabited by the Cherokee tribe now traps six innocent victims who must unlock the riddles left behind by the Cherokee elder. Demonic possession consumes one victim after another as showers of blood drench the earth and shrieks of pain echo throughout the forest. The possessed are animalistic, frenzied killing machines, feeding on the warm meat of fresh kills. In the darkened fields, only bloodshed, violence, and terror grow now - and tonight the harvest begins.

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Plot Keywords:

demon | violence | gore | cannibalism | splatter | 

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Taglines:

Only bloodshed, violence, and terror now grow in these darkened fields... And tonight, the harvest begins.

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Genres:

Horror

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Certificate:

Unrated

Details

Official Sites:

Wicked Pixel Cinema

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Filming Locations:

Barnhart, Missouri, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wicked Pixel Cinema

Technical Specs

Runtime:

71 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Followed by Savage Harvest 2: October Blood (2006)

User Reviews

Evil Dead, Jr.

This is essentially a low-budget rendering of the classic "Evil Dead" premise. However, I don't think it was intended as a rip-off to cash in on that cool movie. It's more likely that no-budget auteur Eric Stanze wanted to cut his teeth on this flick, and didn't want to stray too far from genre conventions. Not to say this is just "Evil Dead," minus Sam and Bruce and a few hundred grand. Compared to most of the shot-on-video horror stuff released, this is halfway decent. Sure, the actors are bad, but the effects are cool, and plot prances along at a pretty steady pace. And the plot, by the way, is a bunch of kids going into the woods and meeting their demise at the hands of demons they inadvertently resurrected. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. For what it is, it ain't bad. And just to comment on distribution, Miramax and the like aren't exactly chomping at the bit to get their hands on regional shot-on-video horror flicks put together for a couple grand, which leaves few avenues for the independent filmmaker to pursue. But Eric Stanze, I feel, has made the best of it, and has gotten his movies out there. I found two of them with relative ease. And just to be redundant, considering 95-percent of shot-on-video flicks should be thrown into a pit and burned by a Haz-Mat team, this is a decent, entertaining movie of nearly professional quality, and it does fall into that small percentile of watchability.