Those Starving for Entertainment May Want to Watch Starve on Syfy Tonight
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Usually I’m the guy who knows all about what b-movies are airing where and when long before everyone else. Clearly I’m out of the loop of late because I only discovered late Thursday evening that Starve, a new horror movie from director Griff Furst (Ghost Shark), is premiering tonight (October 20th) on Syfy. This was particularly surprising news to me for four reasons:
1) Again, I’m usually the guy all over this kind of information.
2) Starve is not a made-for-Syfy movie. In fact, it’s very much not the style of movie they typically premiere. More Saw than Sharknado. It will be interesting to see how much language and gore gets censored for television.
3) I don’t think Syfy has ever premiered a movie on a Monday before.
4) Did I mention I sort of co-wrote Starve?
I guess you could say I did a ghost rewriting of the film; mostly I put my spin on a good chunk of the dialogue and reworked a few of the story elements. I did more on Starve than Ghost Shark, but you won’t see my name in the opening credits. If you squint really hard while the squished closing credits fly by at the end, you’ll see my name billed as “additional dialogue.”
So what is Starve about?
A comic book writer, along with his vegan girlfriend and wisecracking brother, is researching a ghost town’s urban legend regarding cannibal people mutated by mercury contamination living in the sinkholes. What they find is even worse when they’re held captive by a madman in the town’s abandoned school, starved for days, and forced to fight other captives to the death for food.
Starve is the movie that answers the age old question, “Who do I have to kill to get a square meal around here?”
Bobby Campo, Mariah Bonner, Dave Davis, Bobby C. King, and Copper Huckabee star.
Starve premieres tonight on Syfy at 9/8 Central as part of their “31 Nights of Halloween.” If you miss it, it re-airs several times in November.
I really hope a bunch of internet film critics don’t make snarky comments about the movie. Those guys are such dicks.
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