extracurricular

Director Ray Xue’s second feature film to date, Extracurricular, managed to get some eyes last year at FrightFest and is now looking to amplify its reach with a digital release slated for January 17. The new suspenseful horror thriller was penned by Matthew Abrams and Padgett Arango, and centers on a quartet of secretive overachieving high schoolers whose deadly pastime backfires. A young couple. An isolated cabin. The killer strikes, chasing them through the woods. It’s not one killer, but four. Ian, Derek, Jenny, and Miriam are high schoolers. Athletes. Scholars. Killers. They have rules. Never in their home town. Never anyone they know. No kids. No patterns. No witnesses. Halloween approaches. They know they’ve got to celebrate properly. An isolated farmhouse out in the country, an older couple living alone. A perfectly thought-out plan, assembled amid the usual chaos of homework, and family. Halloween night. The couple settle in […]

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