Founders Day

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Founders Day

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2024,

1h 46m,

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Mystery & Thriller/

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In this satirical political slasher from the Bloomquist Brothers, a small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election. As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every street corner, the residents must race to uncover the truth before fear consumes the town.

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Founders Day brings a few clever bits to bear on its '80s-inspired slasher story, but its scattershot tone and an overreliance on horror clichés prevent it from leaving much of an impression.

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Dennis Harvey

Variety

Jan 20, 2024

The intended satire [is] feeble, while the relatively straightforward horror aspects register just middling effectiveness in a standard slasher vein.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

Jan 19, 2024

1.5/4

A couple of pedal-to-the-floor melodramatic twists suggest that “Founders Days” might’ve been a bolder or just meaner genre movie, but its toothless satire, like its timid horror drama, sadly doesn’t cut it.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

Jan 18, 2024

1.5/5

The checklist of Eighties slasher cliches here is insufferably long.

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Ian Bunting

Daily Record (UK)

May 21, 2024

Founders Day is like Thanksgiving’s quieter, more polite younger brother but takes enough decent stabs at the genre to ensure it’s worth your vote -- for at least one term.

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Tim Miller

Cape Cod Wave Magazine

May 4, 2024

1/4

Brothers Erik and Carson Bloomquist ... are trying to blend the conventions of the slasher genre (red herrings, multiple suspects, mutilated teenagers) with campy political satire. ... Founders Day pummels us with the obvious.

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Feb 5, 2024

2.5/5

It's a bit all over the place and struggles to nail a consistent tone, but when it works, it works.

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In this satirical political slasher from the Bloomquist Brothers, a small town is shaken by a series of ominous killings in the days leading up to a heated mayoral election. As accusations fly and the threat of a masked killer darkens every street corner, the residents must race to uncover the truth before fear consumes the town.

Director: Erik Bloomquist
Producer: Erik Bloomquist, Carson Bloomquist, Adam Weppler
Screenwriter: Erik Bloomquist, Carson Bloomquist
Distributor: Dark Sky Films
Production Co: Mainframe Pictures
Rating: R (Strong Bloody Violence|Some Sexual References|Language)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 19, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): May 7, 2024
Runtime: 1h 46m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1

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