Epic Pictures’ horror imprint Dread is serving up a blood-soaked nostalgia trip with The Boy From Below . The film stands as a loving, retro-fueled tribute to the iconic late-1990s slasher renaissance. It blendis dial-up-era aesthetics with classic video store culture. Scream Queens and Movie-Obsessed Killers Set on Halloween night in 1997. The story follows video store clerk Quinn Curtis. As she prepares for a cozy evening of movie marathons and local festivities, her night takes a turn for the worse. Her plans collapse when a masked psychopath known as “The Boy from Below” initiates a murderous spree. Obsessed with cinema, the killer begins meticulously executing his victims in hyper-violent recreations of famous slasher scenarios. This forces Quinn to weaponize her encyclopedic knowledge of horror tropes to outthink the killer and survive until morning. The impressive ensemble features genre legends Dee Wallace (Cujo), Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), and Tommy Lee Wallace (IT), as well as Jack Norman, Spooky Madison, and Chaney Morrow. A Love Letter to the Video Store Era Directed by Tory Jones, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jerron Spencer and Cheyenne Gordon, the project stems from a lifelong passion for physical media and late-night genre classics. Jones described
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