UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: Billy Club (2013)

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Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Pick a Lance. I know Lance loves baseball, so I feel like this is the right pick. 

There aren’t many baseball horror movies. Here’s the ones I know:

You can add Billy Club to the list.

Years ago, back when they were on a little league team, Bobby (Marshall Caswell) and his friends Alison (Erin Hammond), Kyle (Nick Sommer) and Danny (Max Williamson) beat their teammate Billy up something fierce when he struck out in the biggest game of their young lives. They followed this by tying him up, putting him in a dunk tank and trying to drown him. The only thing that saved the poor kid was the umpire, who told him to stand up for himself.

Billy then killed two of his teammates and his coach before being put away for several years.

Directed and written by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer, this has the teammates get back together and an umpire showing up with a bat murder weapon that he or she uses to kill them off, one by one, before constructing a baseball field in a swamp.

This follows the slasher story of a uniting bad event coming back to haunt people, has a cool looking slasher and a decent final girl. Also: the flashback scene has nudity, which seems correct. The gore is decent and it seems like the directors were trying for cool shots several times, even if they come at the expense of storytelling. This feels a little too long but that’s fine when a movie has numerous moments of baseball bat violence and an ending that is set in a batting cage.

Let’s make more baseball killer movies!

You can watch this on Tubi.