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Stab 4: Fresh Blood

2010

Stab 4: Fresh Blood (2010) poster
Status
Released
Announced premiere
October 10, 2010
Part 1 upload
October 5, 2010
Full-film upload
April 25, 2012
Runtime
74 minutes
Filmed in
Manchester and Bedford, New Hampshire
Studio
StabMovies.com
Distributor
Free to watch on the StabMovies YouTube channel and StabMovies.com

Half parody, half horror, and a whole lot of fun!

Directed by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Written by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Produced by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
IMDb2010 PREMIERE ANNOUNCEMENTBONUS FEATURESSCRIPT

The Film

Read the screenplay (PDF) — 2010 screenplay.

After being accused of her family's murder, Sarah Campbell has moved from her home in Odessa, Texas to the smaller, peaceful town of Manchester, New Hampshire. Stuck in an unfamiliar place, Sarah rediscovers joy in her oldest hobby: dance. Sarah joins a local dance-team and befriends her teammates.

Trouble soon finds Sarah, again, when a local news reporter, Heather Gale, from Texas, follows her to New Hampshire, revealing the dark secrets of her past and accusing her of a new string of local murders. One by one, her friends begin to drop like flies in a very familiar pattern. Could Sarah and the murders be connected? Or has someone else taken their love of the Stab movies one step too far?

Release & Reception

  • Runtime: 74 minutes (full movie). The six parts run about 82 minutes combined.

The film was announced for an October 10, 2010 debut on StabMovies.com. The YouTube uploads have separate dates: Part 1 is dated October 5, 2010, Parts 2, 3 and 4 are dated October 6, and Part 5 is dated October 7. Part 6 carries the earliest date on the channel, September 30, 2010. A single full-length upload followed on April 25, 2012.

By September 2026 the full-movie upload had about 365,000 views. Part 4 is by far the most watched piece of the film, with about 16.7 million views. Part 5 had about 813,000, Part 1 about 395,000, Part 2 about 75,000, Part 3 about 42,000 and Part 6 about 41,000.

A never-released trailer with updated logos was posted on March 20, 2012 as Stab 4 Leftovers: Unreleased Trailer.

StabMovies.com's FAQ tells new viewers who want the original series to start with Stab 4: Fresh Blood.

Deleted Scenes & Trivia

  • Stab 4 Leftovers: raw found footage of Jennifer Sue Mallard test-filming a scene, posted March 12, 2012.
  • Stab 4 Leftovers: Unreleased Trailer, a trailer cut at the time and never put out, posted March 20, 2012.
  • Stab 4: Fresh Blood Digital Comic, Issue 1, posted February 12, 2017. StabMovies.com planned to adapt all of its Stab movies into comics using stills from the films and later scrapped the idea. Two pages from the elevator scene were uploaded out of order.

Trivia

This film was going to be called Stab 4: Knife of Doom. StabMovies.com dropped that title, threw out the cast and started over with a completely new set of characters under the name Fresh Blood. The Knife of Doom title then sat unused for fourteen years before it went on the 2024 film.

Rachel Alexandria Arnold plays a character called Tammy Taylor here. From Stab 5 onward she plays a version of herself.

Shannon Nightingale appears under her own name playing a character called Shannon Lewis. From Stab 5 the character is called Shannon Nightingale and Stephanie Maheu plays her.

The screenplay came out as a 150 page paperback on October 31, 2019.

  • The working title was Stab 4: Knife of Doom. That title sat unused for fourteen years before it went on the 2024 film Stab 4: Knife of Doom.
  • Chris Dube plays Cj Walker here. In Stab 5, Stab 6 and Stab 7: Knife of the Hunter he plays himself.
  • Sources disagree on the date of the script re-release. The news post announcing it is dated October 31, 2019, while the store listing gives the publication date as November 4, 2019.
  • According to the Stab 6 credits video, Stab 4 and Stab 5 both had photo credits. Stab 6 left them off by accident, so a separate credits video went up on May 21, 2013.
  • Joshua Patrick Dudley and Rachel Alexandria Arnold recorded a commentary for Stab 4. In a 2017 post StabMovies.com admitted they then forgot to do commentaries for the rest of the films until years later.
  • Stab 4: Fresh Blood was the first movie StabMovies ever made.
  • Part 4 of the original six-part upload has about 16.7 million views, more than every other Stab 4 video put together.
  • Stab 4 in 1 Minute (January 25, 2014) squeezes the whole movie into about a minute.
  • Comments with spoilers are removed from the Stab 4 videos.

Connections

  • Stab 5 (2011) is a direct follow-up. In it the cast of Stab 4: Fresh Blood are being murdered in real life, and the actors play themselves.
  • The About page explains the shift: in Stab 4 the Stab movies are real films inside the story, while in Stab 5 the Stab movies are not real but the Scream movies are.
  • Sarah Campbell comes back in Stab 7: Knife of the Hunter, recast with Leila Bafageeh.
  • The official synopsis for Stab 7 (2017) describes a Stab TV series that revolves around a new Sarah Campbell and expands on the story of Stab 4: Fresh Blood.
  • Stab 4: Knife of Doom (2024) takes the title this film dropped.
  • Behind the Mask, Part 1 (2020) covers the making of this film.

Sources

Cast & Production

Cast

Audrey Marquee

Sarah Campbell

Jennifer Sue Mallard

Heather Gale

Shannon Nightingale

Shannon Lewis

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Jay McConnell

Reanna Warnock

Mandy Meyers

Chris Dube

Cj Walker

Laura Coleman

April Lewis

Adam Kaufmann

Travis Tate

Alicia Vigeant

Nikki Summers

Marcel Robinson

Roy Brown

Amanda Constant

Haley Graham

Alex Wenta

Lucas Depp

Shana Roystan

Casey Campbell

Brett W. Mallard

Mr. Campbell

Karen Ferrandino

Mrs. Campbell

Rachel Alexandria Arnold

Tammy Taylor

Crew

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Writer

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Director

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Executive Producer

Rachel Alexandria Arnold

Executive Producer

Isaias M. Garcia

Music

Production

The film started out as Stab 4: Knife of Doom. StabMovies.com dropped that title, threw out the cast and started over with a new set of characters under the name Fresh Blood. The History of Stab page says the story was basically a parody of the Scream movies with new characters, clearly based on the main characters from the earlier Stab films.

StabMovies.com began with Stab 4 because audiences had already seen the first Stab inside Scream 2, and Scream 3 had shown Stab 3 being shut down. The FAQ says they skipped making a Stab 3: Hollywood Horror because they did not want to remake Scream 3. Scream 4 had not come out yet when the Stab series started, and there were only rumors that its script would reveal the franchise had reached Stab 7.

Stab 4 was shot on a FLIP Mino, a pocket camcorder about the size of a phone, and edited in Sony Vegas 9.

In March 2012 StabMovies.com found old raw footage on one of the original cameras. It shows Jennifer Sue Mallard test-filming one of the scenes, and it went up on YouTube as Stab 4 Leftovers.

Behind the Mask, Part 1 (2020) is a 41-minute documentary about filming Stab 4: Fresh Blood, the first movie StabMovies ever made. It has interviews with Joshua Patrick Dudley, Rachel Alexandria Arnold, Laura Coleman and Shana Roystan.

Joshua Patrick Dudley and Rachel Alexandria Arnold, the film's two executive producers, recorded a commentary track about the film and how it was made. The commentary version went up on January 7, 2013. It is not in HD.

Filming locations

  • Manchester, New Hampshire: Main filming area and the story's setting
  • Bedford, New Hampshire: Filming

Props and costumes

The knife on screen is a real Buck 119. The FAQ says Stab 4 and Stab 5 were both filmed with one, and it says plainly that they do not recommend filming with a real knife under any circumstances. From Stab 6 on they used replica Buck 120s.

For the robes in the first few films they bought the first suitable fabric they could find online. The FAQ says they don't remember exactly what it was, and it tells fans looking for something close to search for black fabric with silver lurex.

On November 4, 2024 StabMovies.com announced that props and costumes from Stab 4 were for sale in its store. The post does not say which Stab 4 it means. Stab 4: Knife of Doom had come out less than a month earlier, on October 10, 2024.

Production

The knife on screen is a real Buck 119. Stab 4 and Stab 5 are the only two films in the series filmed with a real blade. The rest used replica Buck 120s.

The Ghost Face robes were made from black fabric with silver lurex.

Killers & Deaths

The killers

Ted Taylor, posing as Jay McConnell

Illustrated reconstruction of Ted Taylor, posing as Jay McConnell, after his final death
Played by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Motive
Revenge on Sarah Campbell for bullying him and his sister Tammy in high school. He gets close to Sarah by posing as the leader of her dance team.
Death
Stabbed by Tammy during the reveal and then shot in the head by Heather Gale.

Tammy Taylor, posing as Mandy Meyers

Illustrated reconstruction of Tammy Taylor, posing as Mandy Meyers, after her final death
Played by
Reanna Warnock
Motive
Revenge on Sarah for the high-school bullying she and Ted endured. She also reveals that she killed Sarah's family and helped frame Sarah for it.
Death
Shot in the head by Heather Gale.

Heather Gale

Illustrated reconstruction of Heather Gale after her final death
Played by
Jennifer Sue Mallard
Motive
As Ted and Tammy's stepmother, she backs their revenge on Sarah and uses her position as a reporter to keep suspicion focused on Sarah.
Death
Shot in the head by Shannon Lewis.

Music & Home Media

The original score is by Isaias M. Garcia.

The score is sold as a $15 download in the StabMovies.com store, which says the audio was made for StabMovies.com only and may not be used without permission.

Merchandise

  • Score download by Isaias M. Garcia, sold in the StabMovies.com store.

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