Hold the Fort

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Hold the Fort

2025

1h 14m

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Comedy

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HOLD THE FORT follows Lucas and Jenny who think their life is finally coming together when the couple become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch. Lucas and Jenny soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when they become trapped in a battle between their Homeowners Association and an onslaught of monsters from hell. The horror-comedy takes the timely concern of home-ownership and wraps this up in an entertaining action-packed thrill ride.

Clint Worthington

RogerEbert.com

Jul 22

For good and ill, “Hold the Fort” has big Feature-Length Cracked Video energy, leaning hard into big, broad laughs and over-the-top gore with the kind of devil-may-care glee you need for low-budget productions like this.

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Mary Beth McAndrews

Dread Central

Oct 8

3/5

Hold The Fort is still a quick, fun horror experience, perfect for a slot in your weekend monster movie marathons.

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Caitlin Kennedy

Simply Cinema (Substack)

Sep 24

5/10

Hold the Fort has a fantastical quality that is a perfect match of its scrappy effects and intimate cast.

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

Aug 28

Hold the Fort is a tight horror comedy that wastes no time getting to the red stuff and the humor, manages to maintain these going throughout and make for a fun time for all.

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Matt Donato

Daily Dead

Aug 8

3/5

Hold the Fort is unserious, slapstick, and often corny as heck, but when it counts, you’ll be delighted by the violent attacks and cheesy zingers that would make Bruce Campbell grin.

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

Aug 6

3/5

With his new film, Hold the Fort, writer/director William Bagley taps into a deep well of modern terrors with an eye for situational and physical gags.

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Erika B

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Seems like some comedy writers got a budget and made a film. Comes off as an earnest, yet self-indulgent project. Similar to Evil Dead in camp, but fails to reach it in execution. You can see what the film wants to be when it grows up. A couple notches above a student film, the entire hour and 14min. was neither funny nor scary. Sorry, I didn't care for it. Perhaps I wasn't high enough.

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HOLD THE FORT follows Lucas and Jenny who think their life is finally coming together when the couple become homeowners. Little do they know that their new house comes with a big catch. Lucas and Jenny soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when they become trapped in a battle between their Homeowners Association and an onslaught of monsters from hell. The horror-comedy takes the timely concern of home-ownership and wraps this up in an entertaining action-packed thrill ride.

Director: William Bagley
Producer: Matt Dodd, Luke Michael Williams, Tim Reis, Julian Smith
Screenwriter: William Bagley, Scott Hawkins, William Bagley
Distributor: Sunrise Films
Production Co: Media Team, Brodacious Films
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 23, 2026
Runtime: 1h 14m