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November may finally be in the air, dearest readers, but the nightmares are not quite over at MFHQ Remote<\/strong>. Plenty of non-horror content is on the way and before then, C-U Blogfidential<\/span><\/strong> would like to get a few bonus horror topics out of our jack-o-lanterns before the cobwebs set in. I\u2019ve recently written about films that have been revisited by genre fans<\/a><\/span> as well as restored for genre fans<\/a><\/span>, so<\/em>, what can be written about ones that never earned a fandom or any sort of notoriety at all? While researching all the details packed tightly into my previous articles about Illinois<\/strong> indie horrors<\/a><\/span>, I came across one particular effort that informally belongs to a pack of non-starter projects made in the Bloomington-Normal<\/strong> area roughly 10 years ago, placed quietly on YouTube<\/strong> by its creator in late 2019. To finally see it is<\/em> a mild shock!<\/p>\n The curious anywhere can now witness DEAD BODIES EVERYWHERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, a woodland slasher filmed in central Illinois farm country by former Peoria<\/strong> and McLean County<\/strong> resident Shea VanLaningham<\/strong>, one of several participants in Jason Huls<\/strong>\u2019 LATE AFTERNOON OF THE LIVING DEAD<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (2007) to try their own hand at the micro-budget production thing. VanLaningham went for the throat with a spare and somewhat nihilistic thriller that follows three groups of young people over a 15-year span who meet bloody doom on property haunted by a stock Eighties killing machine, in this instance an abused child-turned-cannibal named Arthur Grigsby. What effectiveness it manages is largely due to the droning music cues, post-production tweaks that affect gauzy Super 8 film in the daylight and inky VHS bootlegs at night, and an overall grimness every time Grigsby gets the blood flowing fast and cheap. I sighed in relief at the end for all the reasons, largely because its amateur nature regularly bogs down the brief 70-minute runtime.<\/p>\n ~~~~~<\/p>\n