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The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
A fake trailer launches Hallmark Horror with A Stab at Love. Kelsey Gordon, a writer with a career waiting in New York, comes home to Autumn Hollow and discovers that her high school crush, Mark McFarrlus, has become the town's killer, stalking her in overalls and a sack mask that nods to the 1981 TV horror film Dark Night of the Scarecrow. Their courtship still hits every cozy network beat: a heart-to-heart on a hay-strewn truck bed, a workshop full of his handmade knives, pumpkin carving and a simultaneous confession in which he admits he wants to kill her whole family. When her polished fiancé Jake arrives to take her back to the city, Kelsey chooses to stay and accepts Mark's proposal, while the narrator mocks the movie's bargain-basement production and the network's plan to claim Halloween the way it claimed Christmas.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
These are my roots. I guess I just like killing people I know.
Because the only thing female viewers like more than romance is murder.
Only on Hallmark, where boo means boyfriend.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Tim Wilkime
Director



A little extra
Notes from the archive.
The trailer bills its two leads as the fictional actors Gashely Greigert (Chloe Fineman) and Bren Cloebog (Nate Bargatze), with on-screen name supers in the style of a real movie trailer.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
This fall...
- 00:01
Kelsey Gordon
Hello? Dad? Anybody home?
- 00:04
Speaker 1
...comes a chilling new vision of horror.
- 00:10
Kelsey Gordon
If you're calling to ask if I want pepperoni, Dad, you already know the answer.
- 00:14
Mark McFarrlus
Turn around.
- 00:15
Kelsey Gordon
What? Who is this?
- 00:17
Mark McFarrlus
Just turn around.
- 00:20
Kelsey Gordon
Hello?
- 00:24
Mark McFarrlus
Kelsey?
- 00:25
Kelsey Gordon
Wait, Mark?
- 00:27
Mark McFarrlus
What are you doing back in Autumn Hollow?
- 00:30
Speaker 1
From the Hallmark Channel. The last thing Kelsey Gordon expected was to be reunited with her high school crush turned hometown killer. But sometimes life comes up with other plans in A Stab at Love.
- 00:43
Kelsey Gordon
I didn't come to Autumn Hollow to be stalked by a serial killer. I have a career in New York to get back to.
- 00:48
Kelsey's friend
Well, I don't know if that's what he has in mind.
- 00:53
Speaker 1
With two almost attractive actors with almost human-sounding names starring Gashly Griegert and Bren Klobog.
- 01:02
Kelsey Gordon
Didn't you ever want to get out of Autumn Hollow? Try someplace new with all new people?
- 01:07
Mark McFarrlus
No. These are my roots. I guess I just like killing people I know.
- 01:11
Kelsey Gordon
I like that.
- 01:12
Speaker 1
From the producers of The Christmas Prince and Mama.
- 01:16
Kelsey Gordon
I have to go. I have a 3,000-word article on the true meaning of Halloween, and it's due to my publisher tomorrow.
- 01:22
Mark McFarrlus
Can I show you something first?
- 01:25
Kelsey Gordon
Wow. Did you make all these knives? You have a real talent.
- 01:31
Kelsey Gordon
look I have to tell you something
- 01:33
Mark McFarrlus
no me first
- 01:34
let's do it at the same time
- 01:35
Speaker 1
we cornered the market on Christmas why not Halloween because the only thing female viewers like more than romance is murder
- 01:46
Kelsey Gordon
what am i doing I'm scared
- 01:49
Kelsey's friend
of the murders
- 01:50
Kelsey Gordon
no of love
- 01:52
Kelsey's friend
all y'all white girls will just y'all stupid
- 01:55
Speaker 1
and like falling Falling autumn leaves. The magic ends all too soon.
- 02:00
Jake
Kelsey, you weren't at the airport. Did you forget I was coming?
- 02:04
Mark McFarrlus
Who's this guy?
- 02:05
Kelsey Gordon
Uh, Mark, this is my friend Jake.
- 02:08
Jake
Friend? Kelsey, I'm your fiancé.
- 02:13
Kelsey Gordon
Wait! I should have told you.
- 02:16
Mark McFarrlus
I don't even know if I want to kill you anymore.
- 02:18
Kelsey Gordon
Don't say that.
- 02:19
Mark McFarrlus
Just go back to New York. There's plenty of people to kill you there.
- 02:26
Jake
Babe, we're leaving. Limo's outside.
- 02:28
Speaker 1
a movie for the whole family shot entirely on a samsung galaxy in estonia
- 02:39
Mark McFarrlus
kelsey you stayed
- 02:42
Kelsey Gordon
i'm never leaving again
- 02:44
Mark McFarrlus
then i've got something for you will you marry me
- 02:47
Jake
hey what's going on
- 02:50
oh no
- 02:53
Speaker 1
only on hallmark where boo means boyfriend
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