The Black Quarry Is The Kind Of Metal Horror Chaos We Need Right Now

Let’s talk about The Black Quarry by Corey Trahan because honestly this thing feels like someone dug up an old cursed music video shoot and just never told the band. The title The Black Quarry already sounds like a doom album your older cousin warned you about, and the movie leans into that energy so hard. This is a short indie horror film sitting around the forty eight minute mark, and it mixes black metal aesthetics with horror in a way that immediately reminded me of stuff like Deathgasm or even that grimy metal energy Rob Zombie used to throw around back in the House of 1000 Corpses days, just without the Hollywood shine.

The setup is simple but nasty. A black metal band heads out to an abandoned quarry to shoot a music video. Nobody goes to an abandoned quarry for anything wholesome, so of course the vibe turns bad real quick. The lead singer has his own shady reasons for wanting to film there, which already sets the tone. You have creative ambition tangled with ego, all surrounded by this dead silent environment that feels like it’s hiding something older than all of them. That kind of location horror always hits, like the mines in My Bloody Valentine or the woods in Blair Witch when you just know the ground itself is not neutral.

What really works is how Corey Trahan embraces the underground. You can feel the DIY grind in the cinematography and the pacing. This is not polished studio horror, this is that gritty festival circuit creature that horror fans whisper about because it played at midnight and everyone walked out looking like they’d been smacked. According to festival coverage, The Black Quarry has already been stacking selections and pulling horror fest awards, which tracks because genre festivals love when someone swings for the weird fences.

Now, to keep it real, the pacing is rough in the first chunk. Some viewers mentioned that the band drama and the music video moments take up more space than expected, so the actual horror takes a minute to kick in. But once it does, the mood shifts from “metal kids being chaotic” to “oh there is something actually evil under here.” That kind of late-hit horror can feel like early Carpenter where the dread creeps instead of jumps, but you need patience with it.

The cool thing is how this joins a tiny but growing sub niche of metal horror that actually respects the music instead of mocking it. It feels closer to the dark, atmospheric parts of Lords of Chaos than the slapstick of Deathgasm. And because it is indie, Corey Trahan had freedom to make it weird. We need more of that in horror. Stuff that doesn’t chase mainstream approval. Stuff that feels like you found it on a scratched disc inside a leather jacket pocket.

The Black Quarry is for people who live on Shudder more than Netflix, people who know what corpse paint smells like in the sun, people who appreciate a filmmaker who dives into the quarry instead of circling the edge. If you want a clean, traditional scare structure, this probably isn’t your vibe. But if you love underground horror that looks you in the eye and dares you to commit, yeah, this is your movie.

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