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Stab 5

2011

Stab 5 (2011) poster
Status
Released
Released
June 24, 2011
Runtime
99 minutes
Filmed in
Manchester and Bedford, New Hampshire
Studio
StabMovies.com
Distributor
Free to watch on the StabMovies YouTube channel and StabMovies.com

We tried again, but this time it’s "real" life.

Directed by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Written by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Produced by
Joshua Patrick Dudley, Rachel Alexandria Arnold
IMDbBONUS FEATURESSCRIPT

The Film

Read the screenplay (PDF) — Eighth revision, May 4, 2011.

Stab 5 finds the cast of the fan-film Stab 4: Fresh Blood under attack. Again playing on the reality-within-a-reality of the Stab films and taking it to the next level.

After two cast members of Stab 4 are brutally murdered, the town of Manchester, New Hampshire is on edge as rumors of a Ghost Face wearing psycho quickly make their way around town. Joshua Dudley, Director of Stab 4, and his Producer, Rachel Arnold, are busily working on their production of Stab 5 when they receive the news. Deciding the film's production is worth more to Joshua than the safety of his cast, production rolls on.

Who would want to kill the cast of Stab 4? Is the killer someone taking their obsession with the Stab films one step too far? Is the killer following the same rules we all know and love? But most importantly, the number one question on everyone's mind: who's next?

Release & Reception

The first trailer went up on May 15, 2011 and the second on June 7, 2011. Joshua Patrick Dudley said he cut the second one fast so fans could see more clips. Both trailers advertised the original score by Milen Petzelt-Sorace.

The film came out on YouTube in seven parts on June 24 and 25, 2011. StabMovies.com's 10-year anniversary post also marks June 24 as the release day. A single full-length upload followed on April 27, 2012.

Fans were asked not to post spoilers, and spoiler comments were removed.

By September 2026 the full-movie upload had about 669,000 views. Of the seven parts, Part 6 had the most views at about 170,000, with Part 1 close behind at about 163,000.

Fan-submitted cast Q&A videos followed. Chris Dube and Steve Matluk went first on July 22, 2011, then Chris O'Brocki on August 17, 2011, then Joshua Patrick Dudley and Rachel Alexandria Arnold on August 22, 2011, and Arielle F. Kaplan on June 27, 2012. Joshua and Rachel took questions about the filming process, casting and Stab 8.

Deleted Scenes & Trivia

  • Bloopers, outtakes and uh-oh moments, posted June 28, 2011.
  • Alternate ending, posted August 1, 2011. It is the only footage filmed with the original Shannon Nightingale. It contains spoilers.
  • The first written ending was scrapped before filming because it was almost identical to the ending of Scream 4.
  • Behind the scenes photo slideshow, posted February 12, 2017.

Trivia

Stab 5 was originally written as Stab 5: Clock of Doom and the story was built on time travel. Both the title and the time travel were dropped. What replaced them was a new version of reality where StabMovies.com produces the Stab films and the cast play themselves. The reason there is no time travel in it is simple: the script was written before Scream 4 came out. The Clock of Doom title is finally getting used on the film coming in 2027, time travel and all.

This is the film where the series turns in on itself. From here on the actors are playing versions of the real people who make these movies.

The screenplay came out as a 206 page paperback on October 30, 2019.

  • There is no time travel in this Stab 5.
  • The Clock of Doom title and the time travel idea come back in Stab 5: Clock of Doom, planned for 2027. They loved their unused idea of showing different Ghost Face masks throughout history so much that they rebooted the series and started again from the beginning.
  • Stab 5 is the second full-length Stab film.
  • The killer in Stab 5 is a copycat.
  • Joshua Patrick Dudley won a trip to the Hollywood premiere of Scream 4 while Stab 5 was in production, and that trip is what led him to rewrite the ending.
  • In the second production vlog Jennifer Sue Mallard talked about playing Heather Gale, her Stab 4 character. In the film's cast list she plays Jennifer Mallard.
  • In the early vlogs Rachel Alexandria Arnold is called the producer. By the fourth vlog she is the executive producer, which is her credit on the film.
  • The hope after the alternate ending came out was that both Shannons would return for Stab 6.
  • Arielle F. Kaplan's Q&A covers her character, her shirt and the filming process.
  • Arielle F. Kaplan's character is spelled Veronica Clarke here and Veronica Clark in the Stab 6 cast list.
  • Chris O'Brocki plays Derek Riley here and Erik Riley in Stab 6.
  • StabMovies.com's 10-year anniversary post on June 24, 2020 points out that Stab 5 came out on the same date nine years earlier. Behind the Mask, Part 2 went up that same day.
  • A 2017 post says Rachel and Joshua recorded a commentary for Stab 4 and then forgot to do the rest. Stab 5's commentary is Joshua alone.

Connections

  • It follows Stab 4: Fresh Blood (2010), whose cast are the targets.
  • The About page explains the rules changed between films: in Stab 4 the Stab movies are real films inside the story, but in Stab 5 the Stab movies are not real and the Scream movies are.
  • Stab 6: Ghostface Returns (2012) is a direct sequel. In it reporter Kylie Scott has written a book called Manchester Massacre about these murders.
  • In Stab 7: Knife of the Hunter, the in-story Stab 5 and Stab 6 are movies Rachel Arnold and Kylie Scott made, and they flopped at the box office. The 2017 Stab 7 synopsis says they got mixed reviews.
  • Stab 5: Clock of Doom (2027) brings back the title and time travel story dropped from this film.
  • Stab 2 (2022) follows the same pattern, bringing back the cast of the previous movie in a reality where that movie was only a movie.
  • Behind the Mask, Part 2 (2020) covers the making of this film.

Sources

Cast & Production

Cast

Audrey Marquee

Audrey Marquee

Reanna Warnock

Reanna Warnock

Jennifer Sue Mallard

Jennifer Mallard

introduced in the second production vlog as playing Heather Gale

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Joshua Dudley

Rachel Alexandria Arnold

Rachel Arnold

Stephanie Maheu

Shannon Nightingale

took over the part after Shannon Nightingale was injured in a car accident

Chris Dube

Chris Dube

Steve Matluk

Kenny Williams

Mandi Russell

Dylan Roberts

Patricia Shanley

Regina Hartley

Shana Roystan

Shana Roystan

Amanda Constant

Amanda Constant

Alex Wenta

Alex Wenta

Karen Ferrandino

Karen Ferrandino

Dave Fein

Dave

Arielle F. Kaplan

Veronica Clarke

Chris O'Brocki

Derek Riley

Ashley Swank

Fortune Teller

Heidi Nicolle

Kylie Scott

Crystal Wezesa

Lillian

Shannon Nightingale

Shannon Nightingale

alternate ending only; the only footage shot with her before she was injured in a car accident and replaced

Crew

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Writer

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Director

Joshua Patrick Dudley

Executive Producer

Rachel Alexandria Arnold

Executive Producer

Milen Petzelt-Sorace

Original music

Production

Stab 5 was first written as Stab 5: Clock of Doom, with a time travel story. The title and the time travel were both dropped. In their place came a new reality where StabMovies.com produces the Stab films and the cast play themselves. The script was written before Scream 4 came out, and it was only with Scream 4 that fans learned the Stab 5 inside the Scream films was supposed to involve time travel. Time travel was also too cheesy even for them, and not practical or affordable at the time.

Stab 5 is the second full-length Stab film from StabMovies.com. Joshua Patrick Dudley wrote and directed it and also acts in it. Rachel Alexandria Arnold produced it and also acts in it. Both are credited as executive producers.

Filming was underway by January 2011, and the production posted a run of vlogs for fans. In the first, on January 23, 2011, Joshua and Rachel said hello to Stab and Scream fans. In the second, on January 26, Jennifer Sue Mallard and Chris O'Brocki talked about their parts as much as they could, and Chris brought along a special issue of Fangoria. The third, posted January 29, had Joshua, Rachel, Steve Matluk and Chris O'Brocki talking Scream, Stab and filming updates. It was shot on Chris O'Brocki's last night of filming.

In the fourth vlog, on February 16, 2011, Joshua gave an update on where production stood. He announced he had won a trip to the Hollywood premiere of Scream 4, talked about the new Scream 4 poster and the coming Stab 5 teaser trailer, and Rachel added her own producer update. The fifth vlog, on April 19, 2011, showed footage and photos from the premiere.

The sixth vlog, on May 9, 2011, covered where production stood and the loss of an actress. Joshua and Rachel also handed out a few STABBY awards for Scream 4. The actress was Shannon Nightingale, who played Shannon Lewis in Stab 4. She was hurt in a car accident, and Stephanie Maheu took over the part of Shannon Nightingale. The only footage of the original Shannon from this film is an alternate ending. Shannon has since recovered.

The ending on screen is the second one written. Joshua scrapped the first after attending the Scream 4 premiere in Hollywood and realizing it was almost identical to the ending of Scream 4.

Stab 5 was shot on a Sony Bloggie and the final version of the FLIP camera, and edited in Sony Vegas 9.

In 2020 Joshua Patrick Dudley, Rachel Alexandria Arnold, Stephanie Maheu, Chris Dube, Steve Matluk, Arielle Kaplan, Chris O'Brocki, Ashley Swank, Shana Roystan and Dave Fein were interviewed for Behind the Mask, Part 2, the documentary about making this film.

Filming locations

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

Props and costumes

Like Stab 4, Stab 5 was filmed with a real Buck 119 knife. From Stab 6 on the productions switched to replica Buck 120s.

Production

Like Stab 4 it was filmed with a real Buck 119 knife.

Killers & Deaths

The killers

Chris Dube

Played by
Chris Dube
Motive
Revenge on the women from the Stab 4 cast after they rejected him.
Death
Shot in the head by Shannon Nightingale.

Kenny Williams

Played by
Steve Matluk
Motive
He believes the murders will make Jennifer a real star and imagines that the two of them can run away together.
Death
Electrocuted by Jennifer Sue Mallard.

Joshua Dudley, secret accomplice

Played by
Joshua Patrick Dudley
Motive
His involvement is revealed in Stab 6: he helped Chris and Kenny so he could record real murders and use them to make Stab 5 feel real.
Death
His role is not exposed in Stab 5. The next film reveals it and makes the consequences part of its opening.

Music & Home Media

The original score is by Milen Petzelt-Sorace. Both trailers advertised it.

The soundtrack 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

  • Soundtrack download by Milen Petzelt-Sorace, sold in the StabMovies.com store.

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