Election Day

***Election Day*** is a 2021 slasher film produced by Village Productions. It was filmed on Saturday, September 25th, 2021 and first released on Friday, October 1st, 2021. The *Director's Cut* was released in April 2022.

## Plot

On midnight of November 2nd, 2021, a teenage boy is walking down the street when he encounters an axe murderer donning a Halloween mask of President Biden. He is struck in the head by the killer with the axe, collapsing to the ground. The serial killer, only speaking with Joe Biden's words, exclaims "Come on man". The teenage boy, begging for his life and screaming, is responded to with "Will you shut up, man". The killer then chops off the boy's arm, leaving him to bleed out and die.

In the afternoon, a teenage girl is walking down the same street and discovers the boy's corpse. She screams in horror, and seeks immediate shelter. The nearest house she runs to is the home of a conservative conspiracy theorist, so when she knocks on the door, she is held at gunpoint and led inside for interrogation. The conspiracy theorist does not believe that a serial killer is in town, stating that it is a government hoax to keep everyone home. Soon enough, the conspiracy theorist's neighbor, the local Twitter user, shows up randomly in the house. He cites that the reason he entered the house was because of the conspiracy theorist reciting right-wing talking points, so he puts on mainstream news network CCN (hosted by news anchor Dave Someone) to "correct" the conspiracy theorist's thinking.

After watching Jesus Christ prove on CCN that the serial killer does indeed exist, the conspiracy theorist gets angry, citing his "Christian values" as a reason that everyone is wrong. He decides to go into the forest near the house, completely alone, to prove everyone wrong. He expectedly encounters the killer in the forest and tries shooting him, but his revolver is out of ammunition, so he is murdered with an axe slice to the chest. The teenage girl and conspiracy theorist's neighbor, still inside the house, argue over how to protect themselves. The teenage girl argues that they should protect themselves by locking all doors and arming themselves with knives, but the neighbor argues for "pacifism" and goes outside to peacefully debate the killer out of killing.

The neighbor tries to talk the killer out of killing, but when he tries to hug him, he chases after him and kills him. The killer then breaks inside the house and goes after the teenage girl, now a final girl. The teenage girl is able to demask and unarm the killer after telling him "I will kill you, you killer", and chases him down. The killer is then murdered by the teenage girl. She looks at her bloody hands and maniacally laughs in insanity, as police cars draw closer and closer...

## Reception

In YouTube views and real-life watch parties, Election Day is the most watched Village Productions film by far, and the second best received behind *Capeman: Evil Never Rests*. It was praised for its satire of the slasher subgenre, satire of American politics, editing, and some of the acting. Criticisms of the movie are mostly directed at a scene in the beginning which was later removed in the 2022 *Director's Cut*.