October 2022

In the deep shadows it has waited, gathering strength. In the gloaming it opened its dark eyes and sharpened its blood-stained teeth. Now slowly into the moonlight it rises to claim its next victim.

After a long hiatus, the improvised slasher movie that has claimed the hearts of horror fans up and down the West Coast has returned for a one-night special event.

For the safety of the performers and patrons, masks will be required and must stay on throughout the performance.

December 2019

Like sipping hot cocoa next to a wide open fireplace or stopping for a kiss under some perilously large icicles, the holidays are a time for special moments to share with the one you love.

Sometimes the magic of the season reveals love where you least expect it. But sometimes that love needs a little push. Sometimes that love needs to prove to you that SHE deserves to find that diamond ring in her stocking, NOT that woman you brought home from the big city, and anyone who can’t see that you are destined to be together is going to find themselves out in the cold where their body won’t be discovered until the snow thaws.

This holiday season, Blood Squad is proud to present ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU: an improvised horror movie set among the saccharine sweetness of a Christmas romance. It’s an evening of comedy you’ll cherish forever.)

October 2018, 2019

You’ve sharpened your jack-o-lantern carving knives. You’ve thought about changing the flickering lightbulb at the end of that long hallway in the basement. You’ve watched your neighbor wait until nightfall, which comes earlier every day, to drag those heavy sacks to the backyard.

You’ve been killing time until Halloween, but now it’s time to kill. Spend Saturday night of Halloweekend with Blood Squad!

It’s a holiday tradition like no other: a completely improvised horror movie, shock-full of Halloween fun, created live before your eyes based on one audience suggestion. No blood, no props, no costumes, no mercy. (But you’re welcome to come in costume - ‘tis the season.)

December 2018

It's that festive week between Christmas & the New Year and we're all snuggled down cozy with our cups of good cheer. Say, do you see those fresh tracks in the snow? How strange. We haven't been outside all day, and we’re miles from the nearest town. Who would be out there in this weather? 

Oh no, the generator just went out. That wind is really howling! Let's light some candles and throw another log on the fire. So pretty in here, right honey? Honey? Bob? Stop teasing, I know you're in the kitchen because I can see your shadow creeping around the door frame. Bob?

Tis the season for slaughter! Blood Squad, in collaboration with Annex Theatre, presents a one-night-only improvised horror movie that will put an end to the holiday season and ring in the dead of winter.

(Viewer discretion is strongly advised)

December 2015, 2016, 2017

Jingle bells!

October 2017

For the first time in Los Angeles since 2012, Blood Squad presents an improvised slasher movie just in time for Halloween Weekend at the (reportedly haunted) Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Silverlake.

With a deep knowledge of and genuine love for the classic slasher flick, Blood Squad’s shows are simple: a completely improvised horror movie created live before your eyes based on one audience suggestion. No blood, no props, no costumes, no mercy.

February 2017

The fifteenth annual Seattle Festival of Improv Theater (SFIT) features five unique, unforgettable nights of live comedy in the U District. From February 15-19th, you’ll be delighted by 29 of the funniest local and worldwide improv comedy groups.

Saturday night at the SFIT Second Stage features The Future (Philadelphia), Blood Squad (Seattle), and BASSPROV (Chicago). Information at seattleimprov.com

September 2016

As children go happily costumed from house to house amidst lawns festooned with carved pumpkins, dodging Styrofoam headstones and plastic skeletons, it waits. As they pour out their bags of candy onto the soft, warm rug of their cozy living rooms and tear into chocolate, taffy & licorice with delight while an old scary movie drones serenely on the TV behind them, it waits. As the porches slowly go dark, bathing the quiet suburban street in an inky cloak of night, it prepares to strike.

July 2016

Timber! Is the ultimate Summer weekend getaway where guests enjoy the sounds of the best music the NW has to offer while choosing from a number of outdoor activities that include free guided paddleboarding, kayaking, hiking with naturalists, stargazing with astrophysicists and much much more.

May 2016

Fast machines, bad boys and chicks with one thing on their mind… killing. Sharpen your switchblade as Blood Squad takes you back to the gory days of gritty Grindhouse horror. Whether your jam is such classic films as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Town that Dreaded Sundown, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill or modern homages like Planet Terror & Machete, join us for a night of high body count schlock horror, all grind. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

May 2016

Listen, sir. I have to say, I don’t think we’ve seen anything like this before. This guy is relentless. And what he’s doing to his victims… it’s.. well, it put my partner in a mental institution, he couldn’t handle it. But considering the circumstances, I want to suggest something that might seem unorthodox. Goddammit, it might be the only way. I want to lure him out. I want to show him he’s not alone. I want to make myself look like the ideal disciple for this sonofabitch. And to do that, I need to leave the badge behind, and become a murderer myself.

August 2015

Etc.

July 2015

Weren’t those fireworks awesome? I just don’t know how they make all those cool shapes! Hahahaha. America. Right? Say, have you noticed it’s gotten awfully quiet out here? Like, did everyone just high-tail it home real fast? I mean how dumb is that right? You have to wait for the traffic to die down. That’s why we brought extra beer. Hey, do you see those guys over there? Man, they look reeeeaaaally drunk. Like – really drunk. I wonder if we should offer to help them out – what do you think babe? Babe? Hey, your hand has gotten super cold but it’s 85 out. Are you ok? Babe?

February 2015

Blood Squad, in collaboration with 14/48 Projects Late Night at West of Lenin, presents a fully-improvised show in the style of European-travel-horror inspired by such films as Hostel, Don’t Look Now, and Suspiria.

Backpacking through Europe post-college was the best idea you guys. Let’s just see where the journey takes us! I met a super-hot Finnish guy in a pub last night and he tells me there’s this amazing B&B on a cliff staffed only by cute 20-somethings in a remote village about 100 miles from here that we HAVE to see. Apparently the parties there are amaaazing.

We have to hop an overnight train and we’ll be there by morning. No time to wait until we’re sober. What? No don’t call your parents to tell them where you’re going. How lame. This is an adventure!

October 2014

Welcome to the 2014 Vancouver International Improv Festival, October 6-11 at Performance Works Theatre and Studio 1398 on Granville Island! The Festival is packed with gifted performers — both from across the world and as close as your backyard — all coming together for a week of mind-expanding and mind-blowing comedy! Over 30 shows created live, using only your suggestions and the imaginations of dozens of talented improvisers.

October 2014

For the first time ever Blood Squad, in collaboration with Annex Theatre, presents a double-feature. Part One: Victorian Ripper Slasher – 7:30pm. Part Two: Deep Space Terror- 10:30pm. A night of a thousand scars spanning centuries of horror. Join Blood Squad as they ring in the Halloween season with chilling tales of terror in two improvised shows in totally different genres of horror. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

August 2014

The international music and arts festival held underneath the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington.

June 2014

One warm summer evening the carnival arrived in town. The lights and smells and music called to the townspeople and they came in droves. They rode the rides, played the games, ate the cotton candy and never suspected the evil that lurked behind the Ferris wheel, the ring toss or the concessions stand. Groups of friends scattered to different attractions as the shadows grew longer. Nobody seemed to remember who they came with, or if their numbers had decreased by the time they parted. They had all forgotten that when the Carnival moves from town to town, it always takes a little something with it.

For a two-night performance in celebration of summer, Blood Squad, in collaboration with Annex Theatre, presents Carnevil, a show in the style of carnival horror inspired by such classics as “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, “The Funhouse” & all your circus-filled nightmares. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

September 2013

Aloha and mahalo.

February 2013

Time to boil the bunnies.

October 2013

Blood Squad is back at The Erickson Theatre, in collaboration with Balagan to presents a fully improvised show live onstage in the style of a horror film based on a title from the audience. And as a special Halloween bonus, the style of horror will also be determined by the audience – everything from occult thriller to Japanese ghost to urban legend is on the table.

May 2013

Blood Squad is back at The Erickson Theatre, in collaboration with Balagan to presents a fully improvised show live onstage in the style of a horror film based on a title from the audience. And as a special Halloween bonus, the style of horror will also be determined by the audience – everything from occult thriller to Japanese ghost to urban legend is on the table.

October 2012

A horror ’bout hicks.

July 2012

Blood Squad, in collaboration with Balagan Theatre, presents a trilogy of improvised horror films in the style of “Paranormal Activity”, “Insidious” & “The Blair Witch Project”. For those who want to see all three, the show is planned as a complete trilogy, but each individual show will stand on its own.

August 2011

It’s summer time, and all the kids are heading back to camp, even though that horrible, gruesome thing happened not-so-long-ago (or maybe it was?). Swimming, hiking, and stealing kisses in the night are all on the camp schedule… but so is a full week of DEATH!

December 2010

Tis the season for slaughter! For the holidays Blood Squad presents a show in the style of Christmas horror inspired by such classics as the original Black Christmas, Silent Night, Deadly Night and Gremlins. Join us for a one-night only show and holiday party featuring music, comedy and a yule-tide improvised slasher movie.

October 2010

Blood Squad presents a completely improvised show in the style of scary-possessed-child horror. He’s blonde, blue-eyed and he has dimples. He plays well with his friends, is obedient to his parents and always cleans up his room. He’s sweet, he’s adorable, he’s perfect…and last week he drowned the babysitter in the toilet.

December 2009 

T’was the Night Before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring—except the slightly disoriented-looking guy in overalls with a giant knife crawling out of the fireplace

October 2009 

Just in time for Halloween—murder, mayhem and nasty blood-lust, vampire style. In the tradition of the new American classics Twilight & Dead Until Dark (the beloved novels that inspired True Blood), which was inspired by the old classics Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Interview with the Vampire, Blood Squad brings you the modern day vampire romance/horror thriller

October 2008

Just in time for Halloween—murder, mayhem and nasty blood-lust, vampire style. In the tradition of the new American classics Twilight & Dead Until Dark (the beloved novels that inspired True Blood), which was inspired by the old classics Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Interview with the Vampire, Blood Squad brings you the modern day vampire romance/horror thriller

June 2007 

It's prom! Where is everyone? Why is the gym so dark? Why are the doors chained? WHO’S HEAD IS THAT IN THE PUNCHBOWL!?!?