Billy Club is a Horror Comedy Slasher Movie by Drew Rosas and Nick Sommer.
Bobby Spooner (Marshall Caswell), Alison McKenzie (Erin Hammond), Kyle Tripper (Nick Sommer), and Danny Evans (Max Williamson) are four friends who've known each other since their Little League days in the Wisconsin Blue Birds team. The four of them met up again in 1994 to catch up and pay tribute to a tragedy that happened to their team in 1981.
At a game in that year, it was the bottom of the ninth, and Billy Haskins was up to bat. He swung... and struck out, costing his team the victory. The others tormented him for costing them the game, which caused the young boy to snap and murder three members of the team, including Coach Fredricks (Michael Stasny). The four decide to head up into the woods to the coach's old cabin to pay their respects to Billy's victims.
Of course, what they weren't counting on is someone (Mark Metcalf) dressed up like a baseball umpire with a spiked baseball bat going around killing all the other surviving members of the team.
The movie was funded on Kickstarter on September 2nd, 2011. It was released on October the 1st, 2013.
Billy Club contains examples of:
- The '90s: The movie is set in 1994.
- Accidental Murder: When Alison thinks Billy is outside the door of the cabin, she pulls out a gun and fires it as soon as the door opens. The one on the other side of the door... is the cop everyone was led to believe was Billy.
- Batter Up!: Billy's weapon is a baseball bat. One with a bunch of nails sticking out of one side, and a retractable knife blade slotted into the head.
- Beneath the Earth: Alison finds an underground bunker by the lake near the cabin. In it, she finds etchings of Billy's bat, and Coach Fredericks' skeleton.
- Blood from the Mouth: Blood comes from the mouths of plenty of Billy's victims.
- Choke Holds: Billy puts Bobby in one at one point in the movie, rendering him unconscious. We later found out Billy actually did this to himself out in the woods.
- Corporal Punishment: When they're at a gas station, Danny sees an old man yelling at a kid for breaking a rule, and slapping him. It makes Danny think back to that fateful game in 1981.
- Deliberately Monochrome: Some of the movie's early Flashbacks are rendered in a white tint. Of course, it seems to drop this as the movie goes on.
- Eye Scream: When a baseball smacks Billy in the face, we see one of his eyes is shut.
- Facial Horror: Billy kills Kyle[ by beating his face in with the spiked end of his baseball bat. The first strike leaves his face covered in scratch marks, and every subsequent strike leaves more and more.
- Fade to Black: The camera does this while Billy walks off, carrying Danny's decapitated head.
- Flashback: Plenty to the game and its aftermath, as well as to when Billy was in the mental hospital after murdering his teammates in 1981.
- Flyover Country: At the start of the movie is a note stating that it takes place in Wisconsin.
- Implacable Man: Billy takes a pickaxe to the side of his chest, and it doesn't slow him down.
- In the Back: Billy kills a pizza delivery guy (who was on the team with him back in 1981) by stabbing him through the stomach from behind with the knife blade in his bat.
- Kids Are Cruel: We learn via flashbacks that, after the game in 1981, the whole team tied Billy up and put him in a dunking booth while they all took turns trying to dunk him. Alison threw the ball that knocked him into the water, and since he was tied up, he couldn't swim to the surface. He actually drowned in it because the door to the booth got stuck shut, and he had to be revived by a third party who chased the other kids away.
- Mushroom Samba: Danny has one out in the woods when all the chocolate-covered mushrooms he ate back at the cabin kick in.
- Off with His Head!: Billy decapitates Danny as he passes by on the buggy with the retractable blade in his bat.
- One of the Boys: Alison. She was on the Little League team in 1981.
- Police Brutality: The police who arrest Bobby for driving drunk savagely manhandle and beat Bobby's cellmate in front of him when he grabs hold of Bobby and starts shouting things. When Bobby comes back the next day, Alison sees he has bruises on his sides and back, which he attributes to the police.
- Punny Name: While out in the graveyard where Coach Fredericks' grave is, Kyle comes across the headstone of Anita Mint.
- Red Herring: Everyone is first lead to believe that a bearded man occasionally seen is Billy. However, when he's shot and wounded, he reveals he's a cop investigating Billy's murders.
- The Reveal: Alison finds Bobby dressed in the umpire uniform Billy was wearing. It turns out that the guy Billy killed in the opening scene was the real Bobby Spooner.
- Room Full of Crazy: In one Flashback, we see Billy etch a bunch of pictures and words into the wall of his cell at the mental hospital. Kyle sees he did the same to the underside of his bed at the cabin.
- Savage Spiked Weapons: In the prologue, we see a baseball bat get several nails driven through it, and the blade of a knife inserted into a slot near the top.
- Shovel Strike: Billy knocks out a police officer with a shovel to the head.
- Sympathetic Murderer: Billy snapped after being constantly yelled at by his coach, tormented by his teammates, and nearly killed in a punishment gone wrong. The experience traumatized him and after murdering the coach and two of the bullies, he was locked up in a mental hospital for fourteen years. What started this chain of events was: He sucked at batting and cost his team... a little league baseball game.Billy: No. You [Alison] killed me.
- The Tooth Hurts: We see one of Billy's teeth hanging out of his mouth when some baseballs have struck him in the face.
- Watch Out for That Tree!: While driving away from Billy, Danny gets clotheslined by a low, thick tree branch that knocks him off the buggy that he was driving.
- Wham Shot: When Alison pulls off Billy's mask, she sees Bobby's face.
