{"id":102263,"date":"2025-08-22T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102263\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T16:59:11","slug":"sweetest-day-red-band-trailer-holiday-slasher-celebrates-the-other-valentines-day-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/102263\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sweetest Day&#8217; Red Band Trailer &#8211; Holiday Slasher Celebrates the Other Valentine&#8217;s Day [Exclusive]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweetest Day \u2014 a \u201cknock-off Valentine\u2019s Day\u201d celebrated predominantly in the Midwest on the third Saturday in October \u2014 is the latest holiday to spawn a slasher.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate your new favorite day by slicing into our exclusive red band trailer below.<\/p>\n<p>Dor\u00e9e Seay stars as Mindy, a resilient survivor confronted by a vengeful, undead Confederate soldier that nearly ended her life once before.<\/p>\n<p>Genre favorites Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Kelly Maroney (Chopping Mall), and Russell Todd (Friday the 13th Part 2) also appear in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Nate Boyer (\u201cMayans M.C.\u201d), Morgana Shaw (\u201cSalem\u201d), Deborah S. Craig (\u201cThe Blacklist\u201d), Chris Labadie (M.F.A.), Gaku Space (\u201cStreet Fighter: Assassin\u2019s Fist\u201d), Gina Su (\u201cSweet Home\u201d),\u00a0Alex MacNicoll (\u201cThe Society\u201d), and\u00a0Andy Davoli (\u201cThe Sopranos\u201d) round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Hawley makes his feature directorial debut adapted from his 2022 proof-of-concept short of the same name. Hawley and Boyer penned the script, based on a story by Hawley and Seay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s wild to think this all started when Sweetest Day was a festival-wining short film in 2022,\u201d Labadie, who also produces, tells Bloody Disgusting. \u201cAnd now here we are, trailer out and gearing up for audiences to finally get their sweets on Sweetest Day. As a lifelong horror fanatic, there\u2019s something to be said for bringing that old-school holiday-slasher energy into the modern indie space. I\u2019m excited to be in this space with fellow horror lovers as an actor and producer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweetest Day is currently seeking distribution. Follow the film on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sweetestdaythemovie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3866043\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bloody-disgusting.com\/movie\/3866042\/sweetest-day-poster-slash-into-your-new-favorite-holiday-exclusive\/attachment\/sweetestday-poster-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweetestday-poster-1.jpg?fit=1350%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1350,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sweetestday-poster\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweetestday-poster-1.jpg?fit=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bloody-disgusting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sweetestday-poster-1.jpg?fit=691%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3866043\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sweetestday-poster-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"1096\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweetest Day \u2014 a \u201cknock-off Valentine\u2019s Day\u201d celebrated predominantly in the Midwest on the third Saturday in October&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,186,206,68243],"class_list":["post-102263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-movies","tag-sweetest-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}