Killer Ponies From Hell

"Killer Ponies from Hell", is a 2013 horror film, directed by Larry Roosevelt. The movie is about 5 teenagers that spend the night in an abandoned farmhouse.

During the middle of the film, one of the main characters, finds a book and a tape recorder in a cellar. While listening to the tape, the person describes about what happened to the ponies about them killing thousands of village people, being chased after by the village people and hanging themselves on a tree near a farmhouse, to avoid getting killed.

During the translations of the book, the ponies and demons emerge from the dead and start to kill the teens, one by one in the most mysterious way.

Plot
The movie begins in the summer of 1990, a van stops at a beach and two boys run out and begin to play in the water, while the other one sunbathes.

After playing a bit in the water, they come back to find some blood on the sand and towel, they then spot a mysterious figure in the driver's seat in the van, the van immediately takes off, leaving the boys behind.

5 years later, the same main characters along with 3 other friends are now grown up, they are seen driving in a van, they stop near an abandoned farmhouse to spend the night in. The driver, Sam, then goes inside to explore the house while the others, (Lucy, Harry, Stephanie and Rose) all unpack the van.

While Sam explores the house, he goes into a bedroom and finds a huge blood stain on the carpet that trails up to the closet door. Sam opens the closet and finds a rotten corpse of a victim, hanged with a slit throat. He freaks out and tells his friends about it.

Later that night, Sam and Harry find a cellar and go into it, they find both a book and a tape recorder. While listening to the tape, the person describes about what happened to the ponies about them killing thousands of village people, being chased after by the village people and hanging themselves on a tree near a farmhouse, to avoid getting killed.

During the translations of the book, Rose tells her friends to turn off the tape, which is then followed by a window smash. The others think it's just her imagination but Rose immediately walks out of the house to investigate.

While out there, she gets attacked by tree branches and flees from the scene, he then complains to Sam that she wants to leave now, but a voice echoes "YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS PLACE ALIVE!".

Then, the dead ponies rise from their graves and begin killing the teens, one by one. After the 4 others get killed, Sam manages to stop them by throwing both the book and tape recorder into the fireplace and the ponies begin to rot decay.

After the ponies die, dawn begins to break, Sam then walks out the house and starts to get in the van, but however, one of the dead ponies, who is now headless, comes back to life and decapitates Sam with an axe.

Then, the corpse walks off with Sam's head, still in its hand. The scene then pans up towards the sky, the screen fades to black and credits roll.

Production
Larry began working on a screenplay for Killer Ponies in 1994, at the time he was only 15 when he began. Also at the time, the movie was under the title: "Untitled My Little Pony Horror Film".

Of course, Larry was also started working on practical effects for the movie. He also started constructing the book for the movie, also he was taking inspiration from the Evil Dead with the creation of the book.

Filming began a week after Larry's graduation in June of 1995 and concluded in the beginning of July. The camera at the time, Larry used to film the movie, was a Minolta Master Pro 8-918 (Hi8 NTSC). For the scenes with the hanged ponies, they used mannequins, put the costumes over them, then hung the mannequins on a tree with pieces of rope tied to their necks, as for the blood and gore, it was mostly homemade.

Music
The soundtrack in the film is mostly video game music.

Track #1 - Super Mario Advance 2 - Intro

Track #2 - Snix: The Return - Theme

Track #3 - Super Mario Advance 2 - Koopa Kid Defeated

Track #4 - THE CALVANES - CRAZY OVER YOU (Radio Source)

Track #5 - SpongeBob SquarePants Production Music - Footsteps of Horror [#11.02] (used in the house exploring scene and during some of the killings)

Track #6 - Doom E1M5 - Suspense

Track #7 - The Legend of Zelda - A Link to the Past Music - Light World Dungeon

Track #8 - Spongebob Squarepants - House of Horror (used during the woods part and when Sam sees one of the ponies and gets attacked)

Track #9 - Secret of Mana - The Oracle (used when the ponies rise from the dead and break into the farmhouse)

Track #10 - Super Mario Land - Boss (used only in the scene where one of the ponies is about to kill one of the girls when Sam kills it)

Track #11 - Super Mario Advance 2 - Fortress Clear (used after Sam manages to kill one of the ponies that was about to kill one of the girls)

Track #12 - Yoshi's Island - Final Boss (used in the scene where Sam gets cornered and in the scene where one of the ponies come back to life and beheads Sam with an axe)

Tracks #13 and 14 - Yoshi's Island - After the Final Boss is Defeated and Super Mario Advance 2 - Princess Peach is Saved

Track #15 - Super Mario Advance 2 - Bowser's Castle Emerges

Track #16 - Super Mario Advance 2 - End Credits (Part 1)

Sequels
Larry directed three more sequels to Killer Ponies. The second one came out in 1998, the third one came out in 2003 and the fourth and final one came out in 2010. Nowadays, you can see all of the movies, on the Killer Ponies quadrilogy box set.