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BLOOD YOLK

By Myles YAKSICH

Horror - Completed 2024

After returning to her family’s decaying farm in search of her missing mother, an estranged and disillusioned woman and her gay best friend must confront buried trauma, a string of murders, and the chilling possibility her delinquent twin brother is responsible.

Festivals
& Awards

ScreenCraft Horror 2024

Quarterfinalist

Sedona International Film Festival 2024

Best Screenwriting

Cinequest Screenwriting 2024

Semifinalist

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Horror
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 98 mn
- Director(s)
- Myles YAKSICH
- Writer(s)
- Myles YAKSICH, Dani ALVARADO
- Cast
- Dani ALVARADO, Lucca DE OLIVEIRA, Eliza ROBERTS, Kym WILSON, Kennedy MARTIN, Andrew SIMON, Shayn HERNDON, Jordan SHAPPELL, Aaron LYONS
- Producer(s)
- Kennedy MARTIN, Myles YAKSICH
- Synopsis
- Blood Yolk is an elevated horror-thriller about generational trauma, buried secrets, and the bonds that tie us—whether we like it or not. Set against the backdrop of rural decay and familial dysfunction, the film blends slasher suspense with psychological realism and rural gothic tension. Anchored by a fierce female lead and a tender portrait of chosen family, Blood Yolk asks what we inherit, what we bury, and what it takes to rise above the blood that binds us.
  
  Croia Boyd is a sharp, sardonic writer living in Los Angeles with her affluent, gay best friend, Eddy. Once full of ambition, she’s creatively blocked and disillusioned, sleepwalking through life—literally and figuratively—churning out listicles for clickbait publications while ignoring the novel she once dreamed of finishing. When she gets word that her estranged mother has gone missing, Croia is forced to return to her rural hometown of Grimshaw and the decaying family farm she abandoned years ago. Reluctantly, Eddy joins her, determined to provide support in a place where he couldn’t feel more like an outsider.
  
  Back in the town she hoped never to revisit, Croia is pulled into a haunting search for answers. Her twin brother Finn—a troubled, delinquent addict—has disappeared from the property. The townspeople are judgmental, the sheriff is indifferent, and a wave of missing women looms in the town’s recent past. As the emotional weight of her childhood resurfaces, Croia begins experiencing unsettling sleepwalking episodes and flashes of repressed memories.
  
  Eddy, ever loyal and often out of place in Grimshaw’s harsh small-town environment, quickly becomes Croia’s anchor and reluctant partner in unraveling the mystery. But when Eddy vanishes under terrifying circumstances, Croia must confront the past she’s tried to forget: her father’s suspicious death, her mother’s unraveling mind, and her own complicity in secrets long buried.
  
  The mystery leads her to the heart of the family’s trauma: a rusted water trough perched atop a hill—where her father drowned and where Croia once hid as a child. The trough, once a symbol of childhood games, now becomes the chilling centerpiece of the final confrontation. There, beneath a blood-red sky and knee-deep in the water that once held her father’s last breath, Croia faces the masked killer stalking her family’s land—and the horrifying possibility that her twin brother is responsible.
  
  In reclaiming her story, Croia must decide what she’s willing to forgive, what must be left behind, and how to live with the blood that still stains the soil.
  
  Because in Grimshaw, blood is thicker than water.

BLOOD YOLK

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