From 2024, Killcast is a low-key/low-budget serial killer horror film, which uses its budget well to create a gritty, grimly brooding, at points unease & brutal watch. It regards a troubled crime podcast reporting on a local killing spree, which gets more personal as her friends and accomplices start getting taken out. Here from SRS Cinema is a DVD release of the film.

Killcast is directed Greensboro, North Carolina based Josh Grave. He has four other credits to his name- taking in slasher Late Checkout (2023), Horror thriller The House That Eats Flesh (2023), genetically modified shark horror Chum! (2024), and Fur- which going from its poster looks like a camping-based slasher- featuring a bear who carries a heavy metal guitar(!?).

Killcast comes in at just the feature-length runtime of seventy-two minutes. The film's lead character is an unnamed female podcaster/ex-barmaid (Mouse Cravensworth)- who is a heavily tattooed, rather downcast, and decidedly troubled character.  

The film has only a few locations- the room/ house where she does her podcast, a biker/ metal/ punk bar, the killer's lair featuring a tuned-to static TV and a collection of tools of torture- which go from the expected to the ( slightly) more bizarre like a giant pink dildo.

The picture moves between snippets of the podcast, where she is getting more & more wrapped up in the local serial killer case, as her ratings go up. The killers staking 'n' killing, a developing friendship/relationship between our podcaster and a fellow tattooed dude, and nicely moody shifting cloud night shots.

The film is constantly prevalent with a sense of grimy unease and troubled disquiet. Every ten minutes or so, we get a stalking/ attack scene, and these are well realized with a sense of simmering nastiness. There is gore, but it’s shown in a fleetingly disturbing manner- we get gnarly close-up throat-slashing, from the side hand sawing, brutal head bashing or two, and hand/ feet breakings. The killer look is simple but grimly effective, wearing a black balaclava.

The cast is fairly small say six or so, and these all feel fairly believable/ real. For the soundtrack, we get a mix of grimly brooding/ unease dronecraft, US punk, death metal, and chug-bound darkly moody metallic riff craft.

For the most part, I was impressed by Killcast- finding it an effective low-budget serial killer film with a nice stark/ grim atmosphere, with moments of troubling brutality. I guess there is some slight feeling of padding out here and there-  which is clearly about getting the runtime up, but it's nothing too bad.

The region-free DVD features: a (around six minutes) behind-the-scenes short, a film trailer, and SRS Cinema trailer reel.

If you enjoy gritty & troubling at points brutal serial killer films, with a constant feeling of grim unease- then I think you’ll get something from Killcast. And I'll most certainly be checking out more of Mr Graves's filmography.