Homeless Joe
Homeless Joe is a 2010 horror film directed by Bruce Fordyce and produced by Mike Merickel and Patty Sharkey. Homeless Joe is being distributed globally by Troma Entertainment, Inc.
Synopsis
The story follows a group of partygoers who are stalked, abducted and transported by a homicidal homeless vigilante to a remote decommissioned underground military complex. The movie details their torment, escape and eventual showdown with the villain.
Plot: Sean Goodman suffers from perpetual anxieties and is constantly having to take pills to calm himself. He joins a group of friends as they head to a party. On their way there, his friend Dale beats up a homeless man who gets in his way. As the party ends, they find the tires on their vehicle have been slashed and so head to another girl’s house a few blocks away to get a ride back. But on the way there, someone starts attacking and abducting the members of the group. With Sean the only one left, he must follow their mystery attacker into the sewer tunnels. There he finds that a laboratory where a series of secret experiments has produced Homeless Joe, an artificially created serial killer designed to create urban mayhem. Sean rescues his friends but as they escape back to the surface, Homeless Joe comes hunting and slaughtering them.
Cast
- Eric Stayberg as Sean Goodman
- Kevin Kennedy as Homeless Joe
- Nicola Lambo as Lisa
- Antonio Reynolds as Dale
- Tawny Young as Kat
- Mike Hollinger as Burrows
- Kristina Citi as Denise
- Jonathan Coco as Monte
- E. James Fordyce as Dr. Klauss
- Matt Hamilton as The Stoner
- Sean Coffelt as The Captive
The film was shot in June 2008 in Lake Forest, California, Huntington Beach, California and Costa Mesa, California. Its budget is estimated at $40,000.