The Shed

Most of the gore is neatly paired with sight gags to neutralise the terror, and it's an efficient enough machine for generating scares.

Part angsty teen melodrama, part gore-soaked vampire film, the offbeat horror picture "The Shed" should appeal to anyone who likes their genre stories imbued with personal feeling.

There's nothing to make your hair stand on end in The Shed because it's not convincing.

The teen-angst angle isn't explored nearly enough, making it hard to root for the young leads, but some of the bloodthirsty special effects are impressive.

The most frustrating thing about The Shed is that the characters make incredibly stupid decisions throughout the film and this makes it hard to root for them. While there's plenty of potential here, it all feels wasted.

"There are a million different paths writer/director Frank Sabatella can take with this idea, but they choose the least interesting one. "

He mixes childhood terrors with adolescent angst with smalltown rebellion with something aching and lonely.

Sheds are where murder happens. That's just a fact of life. If you go into a shed, you're probably going to die a grisly death of one sort or another.

The Shed is a vicious little bite into the genre, a friendly reemergence of ghoulish vampires and hormonal teenage angst sharing their DNA yet again.

The Shed isn't terrible and it does have promise as a concept but thanks to its lethargic execution there isn't a great deal to recommend it beyond adding it to your queue if it pops up on your streaming service of choice.