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Hallmark Horror

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The setup

Hallmark tries Halloween with a trailer for a cozy small-town romance whose hometown heartthrob is also the local serial killer.

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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.

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.

ScriptEnglish · 47 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:00

    Speaker 1

    This fall...

  2. 00:01

    Kelsey Gordon

    Hello? Dad? Anybody home?

  3. 00:04

    Speaker 1

    ...comes a chilling new vision of horror.

  4. 00:10

    Kelsey Gordon

    If you're calling to ask if I want pepperoni, Dad, you already know the answer.

  5. 00:14

    Mark McFarrlus

    Turn around.

  6. 00:15

    Kelsey Gordon

    What? Who is this?

  7. 00:17

    Mark McFarrlus

    Just turn around.

  8. 00:20

    Kelsey Gordon

    Hello?

  9. 00:24

    Mark McFarrlus

    Kelsey?

  10. 00:25

    Kelsey Gordon

    Wait, Mark?

  11. 00:27

    Mark McFarrlus

    What are you doing back in Autumn Hollow?

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 00:48

    Kelsey's friend

    Well, I don't know if that's what he has in mind.

  15. 00:53

    Speaker 1

    With two almost attractive actors with almost human-sounding names starring Gashly Griegert and Bren Klobog.

  16. 01:02

    Kelsey Gordon

    Didn't you ever want to get out of Autumn Hollow? Try someplace new with all new people?

  17. 01:07

    Mark McFarrlus

    No. These are my roots. I guess I just like killing people I know.

  18. 01:11

    Kelsey Gordon

    I like that.

  19. 01:12

    Speaker 1

    From the producers of The Christmas Prince and Mama.

  20. 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.

  21. 01:22

    Mark McFarrlus

    Can I show you something first?

  22. 01:25

    Kelsey Gordon

    Wow. Did you make all these knives? You have a real talent.

  23. 01:31

    Kelsey Gordon

    look I have to tell you something

  24. 01:33

    Mark McFarrlus

    no me first

  25. 01:34

    let's do it at the same time

  26. 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

  27. 01:46

    Kelsey Gordon

    what am i doing I'm scared

  28. 01:49

    Kelsey's friend

    of the murders

  29. 01:50

    Kelsey Gordon

    no of love

  30. 01:52

    Kelsey's friend

    all y'all white girls will just y'all stupid

  31. 01:55

    Speaker 1

    and like falling Falling autumn leaves. The magic ends all too soon.

  32. 02:00

    Jake

    Kelsey, you weren't at the airport. Did you forget I was coming?

  33. 02:04

    Mark McFarrlus

    Who's this guy?

  34. 02:05

    Kelsey Gordon

    Uh, Mark, this is my friend Jake.

  35. 02:08

    Jake

    Friend? Kelsey, I'm your fiancé.

  36. 02:13

    Kelsey Gordon

    Wait! I should have told you.

  37. 02:16

    Mark McFarrlus

    I don't even know if I want to kill you anymore.

  38. 02:18

    Kelsey Gordon

    Don't say that.

  39. 02:19

    Mark McFarrlus

    Just go back to New York. There's plenty of people to kill you there.

  40. 02:26

    Jake

    Babe, we're leaving. Limo's outside.

  41. 02:28

    Speaker 1

    a movie for the whole family shot entirely on a samsung galaxy in estonia

  42. 02:39

    Mark McFarrlus

    kelsey you stayed

  43. 02:42

    Kelsey Gordon

    i'm never leaving again

  44. 02:44

    Mark McFarrlus

    then i've got something for you will you marry me

  45. 02:47

    Jake

    hey what's going on

  46. 02:50

    oh no

  47. 02:53

    Speaker 1

    only on hallmark where boo means boyfriend

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