“JACOMELLI HAS AN UNDENIABLE EYE FOR COMPACTING A PULPY MORASS INTO SNAPPY IMAGERY”
Blood Star (2025) — A Serial Killer Road Trip Survival Horror Movie
A Brutal American Road Trip Movie Turned Survival Horror
Blood Star is a raw, relentless serial killer movie set on desolate American highways, blending road trip movie tension with stripped-back survival horror movie intensity. Set across vast desert landscapes, the film transforms the open road from a symbol of freedom into a trap — a place where movement invites danger and isolation becomes weaponised.
Rated 6.1 on IMDb, Blood Star stands among the most uncompromising American survival horror movies of 2025, using scale, silence, and pursuit to build dread rather than spectacle.
A Survival Horror Road Trip Movie
More than a chase thriller, Blood Star is a road trip survival horror movie where every mile increases the stakes. As the journey unfolds, the desert strips its protagonist of protection, identity, and voice. Authority turns predatory. The road offers no refuge — only exposure.
Part serial killer movie, part psychological road thriller, the film belongs to a lineage of American genre cinema where the landscape itself becomes complicit in the violence. Critics have cited its confrontational tone and social undercurrents as marks of one of the most unsettling indie horror thrillers of 2025.
A Modern American Serial Killer Movie
Directed by Lawrence Jacomelli in his feature debut and starring John Schwab and Britni Camacho, Blood Star draws from classic American road movies and desert-set thrillers, reframing them through the lens of a serial killer moviegrounded in realism and menace.
Set across empty highways and lawless small towns, the film is a desert road trip movie where power is arbitrary and survival means resisting erasure. Lean, character-driven, and unforgiving, Blood Star rejects catharsis in favour of confrontation.
Blood Star Synopsis
In this gritty survival horror road trip movie, a petty thief driving through the New Mexico desert becomes the target of a psychopathic small-town sheriff who treats his badge as a license to hunt. Stripped of her phone, car, and voice, she must rely on instinct and endurance to survive a brutal game of cat and mouse — and reclaim her power in a land where the law is just another weapon.
— Lawrence Jacomelli, Writer & Director
BLOOD STAR CRITICS REVIEWS & PRESS ARTICLES
THE GUARDIAN
PHIL HOAD
“MORE THAN A DESERT CHASE FILM, BLOOD STAR IS A STORY ABOUT ERASURE — THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, EMOTIONAL AND LITERAL THEFT OF A WOMAN’S VOICE.”
UK FILM REVIEW
CHRIS BUICK
“INCREDIBLY TENSE, DRAMATIC, ENGAGING AND DAMN ENTERTAINING CAT-AND-MOUSE THRILLER THAT HARDLY PUTS A FOOT WRONG”
SKYWALKER SOUND
GWEN YATES-WHITTLE
“TERRIFIC PERFORMANCES”
MOVIEMAKER MAGAZINE
TOM MOLLOY
“A GENRE FILM THAT FINDS TIME FOR UNFORGETTABLE TARANTINOESQUE MOMENTS”
“WE WERE FORTY MINUTES FROM THE NEAREST TOWN, WITH NO RUNNING WATER, NO FUEL, AND NO POWER. HEAT BY DAY, BELOW ZERO AT NIGHT, SANDSTORMS, HEAVY RAIN, FLOODING, CONSTANT WIND THAT PLAYED HAVOC WITH SOUND.”
STARBURST
MARTIN UNSWORTH
“BOASTS SOME INTERESTING CURVEBALLS AND A GENUINE SHOCK MOMENT”
FILM THREAT MAGAZINE
BOBBY LEPIRE
“CAMACHO IS GREAT, SCHWAB IS TERRIFYING”
“GRITTY, GRUELLING AND SOCIALLY ENGAGED THRILLER”
“DARK SURVIVAL THRILLER”
BLOOD STAR — FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF) — World Premiere (2024)
Grimmfest — UK Premiere (2024)
Molins Horror Film Festival — Spanish Premiere (2024)
Splat! Fantastic Film Festival — Poland (2024)
Fantasy Filmfest — Germany (2024)
Chilliwack International Film Festival — Canada (2024)
Paris International Fantastic Film Festival (PIFFF)— France (2025)
Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival — USA Premiere (2025)
BLOOD STAR — DISTRIBUTION
Blood Star is distributed internationally across key territories, with release partners handling theatrical, digital, and home entertainment platforms.
PLAION Pictures — United Kingdom & Italy
Quiver Distribution — North America & Canada
Swift Distribution — France
Meteor Film — Germany
Additional territories to be announced.
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