Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire (2024) Horror

Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire (2024) Movie Release Dates / Movie Details

Updated: October 14, 2025

Strange Harvest: Occult Murder in the Inland Empire Plot Synopsis:

Synopsis: A faux true-crime documentary about two detectives pursuit of an serial killer named Mr. Shiny who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades.

Press Release Oct. 14, 2025

Vertigo Releasing has confirmed that their faux true-crime docu-horror, Strange Harvest, will be released this month. Directed and written by Stuart Ortiz (Grave Encounters), Strange Harvest will be available on Digital Download across the UK from 27th October and Australia and New Zealand, from 29th October. The film stars Peter Zizzo, Terri Apple, Andy Lauer, Matthew Peschio, Janna Cardia, Thomas Wolfe Jr, Tim Shelburne, Christina Helene Bra and LA Williams.

A routine welfare check in the San Bernardino suburbs leads to a gruesome
discovery - a family of three has been bound, bled and posed below a strange symbol written in blood on the ceiling. Detective Joe Kirby and Lexi Taylor recognize the symbol as the calling card of a killer from 15 years earlier who has seemingly returned to continue his murder spree.

It’s not long before “Mr.Shiny” begins leaving horrifying new crime scenes in his wake; one victim is trapped in a swimming pool with live leeches while another is ritualistically flayed and displayed in a public park. It soon becomes evident the case is anything but routine and that the murders, and their perpetrator, may be part of some sinister, otherworldly agenda involving cosmic phenonomena and evil forces from beyond. 

The film is currently sitting at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes*, with Film Threat describing it as "a brutal, well-crafted descent into depravity that walks a tightrope between realism and horror fantasy," Dread Central calling it "...phenomenal, disturbing, and creepy..." and Collider naming an "...organic, unnerving, and proficiently grounded as a modern criminal nightmare..."

Strange Harvest will be available on Digital Download in the UK from 27th October and Australia and New Zealand from 29th October

Previous Press Release

In July 2010, the San Bernardino County authorities were faced with one of the most bizarre crime scenes they"d ever encountered. Alerted by a concerned friend, local police arrived at the victims’ home, and the murders they discovered shook them to the ground. The crime scene showed ritualistic aspects, and quickly, one of the detectives recognized a symbol painted on the ceiling in the victims’ blood linking back to a serial killer they’d chased in 1995, before the killer seemingly took a 15-year break.

Having previously co-written and co-directed both the first and second GRAVE ENCOUNTERS and EXTRATERRESTRIAL under the banner of The Vicious Brothers, director Stuart Ortiz is no stranger to genre and demonstrates a deft hand at ‘true crime’ storytelling. Combining his talent as a researcher and a film and TV marketer, Ortiz delivers a gripping film depicting the horrors and madness a serial killer is (or is not) capable of through interviews, archival materials, and reenactments. (ANNICK MAHNERT)

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