October 6. A Horror Film Directed by Joe Meredith (Not for the Faint of Heart)

Across several films, director Joe Meredith has documented the alien virus Havoc, which has been experimented on by EonCorp, and the consequences for those who have been mutated by it.

South Mill District (2018): Ten years have passed since the alien war and what was once human or alien is closer than before. Two vagrants are followed, as they are part of an experiment involving the assimilation of alien and human DNA.

As Meredith himself wrote, “Their bodies were hollowed out by oversized spiders, bio-engineered by EonCorp, a corporation with evil intentions. The spiders used their bodies as dwelling places until the assimilation process was complete, and their bodies regenerated. Now they wander around the South Mill District, waiting for the spider’s mutagenic virus to do what it was meant to do.”

Stop-motion monsters, brain spiders, so much vomit…it’s like a drone SOV beamed from the past to now, an ambient drone that lulls you into not being ready for the next disgusting moment that is about to burn into your soul. Meredith did about everything in this movie, along with his wife Cidney and Toby Johansen.

Imagine if a smoked up stoner in the Satanic Panic made a low-fi version of District 9 but was more concerned with watching things rot than the politics of it all.

You can watch this on YouTube.

Atraxia (2025): The world is a video game and also the sketchbook of that kid in the back of your science class that barely pays attention but knows every answer. Maybe knows more than the teacher. And when you sneak a look inside his drawings, they look like someone’s been watching Cannibal Holocaust every day when they get back from school, all to analyze and memorize the crucified people.

Joe Meredith is making his own Monster Manual through these movies, as this is footage of creatures that have emerged after a major storm. I don’t even know or care what genre this is, but probably the people who came up with elevated horror as a name have an erection wondering what to call Meredith’s work. Religious video game drone horror? That’s not anywhere near succinct enough.

This goes beyond splatter, so maybe the folks that come up with those titles won’t be watching this wandering through nature and finding gory vistas just displayed in front of you, while keeping the aesthetics of a first person shooter.

You can watch this on YouTube.

You can also find Meredith’s films on the Internet Archive.