‘Blood Barn’ Brings Eighties Horror Chaos To Screambox

Independent horror feature Blood Barn is set to make its streaming debut next month, arriving exclusively on Screambox on 17 February. Written and directed by Gabriel Bernini, with co-writing credit to Alexandra Jade, the film blends slasher influences with supernatural elements in a compact, nostalgia-driven package rooted firmly in mid-1980s Americana.

Set during the summer of 1985, Blood Barn follows Josie, a camp counsellor who reunites six of her closest friends for one final weekend together before they leave for college. The gathering takes place at her family’s secluded barn, intended as a last moment of freedom before adulthood begins. That sense of closure quickly curdles when the group becomes aware that the property has been abandoned for years and carries a past Josie has tried to keep buried.

As the night unfolds, curiosity and reckless decisions stir something lurking within the barn. Long-suppressed secrets tied to Josie’s family history rise to the surface, awakening a malevolent presence that begins to possess members of the group one by one. With dawn approaching and violence escalating, Josie is forced to confront the legacy surrounding the barn in a bid to halt the bloodshed and survive the night.

The cast includes Chloe Cherry, Lena Redford, Bambina, Sam Lanier, Felipe Di Poi, Pierce Campion and Simon Paris. Running at 76 minutes, the film leans into a brisk pace, pairing supernatural possession with splashes of dark humour and practical effects. Bernini and Jade developed the project through their company Gold Standard Productions, continuing a low-budget, do-it-yourself approach that previously gained attention within underground horror circles.

Production took place over 11 days at Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, a historic recording location once used by artists including The Rolling Stones, Arlo Guthrie and LCD Soundsystem. The barn itself has a reputation for reported hauntings, a detail that fed directly into the film’s concept. After the studio closed in the early 2000s and fell into disrepair, Blood Barn was conceived as a way of reactivating the space through filmmaking.

Bernini, who spent part of his childhood at the location while his father worked there as an audio engineer, has described the film as a personal project shaped by memory as much as genre tradition. Blood Barn arrives on Screambox as a deliberately rough-edged addition to the platform’s growing slate of exclusive horror titles – catch it from 17 February.

Blood Barn trailer