The
Keno Brothers couldn’t handle Murph Evans and his level of hoarding. Sheila
Smythe’s prospective reality show, Extreme
Haunted Hoardings should be better equipped, but as Evans often points out,
her team of psychologists, contractors, and ghost-hunters are mostly a bunch of
idiots. Things will get ugly and maybe even deadly in Jesse Thomas Cook &
Matt Wiele’s The Hoard (trailer here), which screens as
part of this year’s Blood in the Snow Canadian Film Festival.
There
is actually a somewhat intriguing horror premise buried under all of Evans’
clutter. As a compulsive hoarder, he has amassed a vast amount of stuff
acquired from dead people at estate sales, thrift stores, and what have you.
The mountains of junk also create veritable labyrinths that could entrap Smythe’s
cast, once the entity attacks.
Right
from the start, they assume some kind of haunting is going on. That is why
YouTube channel paranormal investigators Chloe and Caleb Black are part of the
team. They will have primary responsibility for one of Evans’ three clutter
filled houses with eviction notices pending. Meathead contractor Derek “Duke”
Jago and “The Falcon,” his reluctant Maltese assistant take point for the
second house, while Smythe and the ridiculously pompous Dr. Lance Ebe quarterback
the third property and also do their best to ride herd on Evans. Alas, they immediately
fall behind, due to very human reasons, as well as possible supernatural
factors.