Director: Justin Harding
Halloween night goes sideways for a group of strangers in "Carved," a 2024 horror-comedy that sets its scares inside a historical reenactment village.
What is Carved about?
What starts as a routine visit to a themed attraction turns into a fight for survival once the group realizes the village's most famous decoration has come to life. The pumpkin at the center of the chaos isn't just menacing — it's got a grudge, and it works its way through the cast with a mix of dumb luck and genuine cunning that keeps the tone somewhere between jump-scare and punchline. The survivors, most of them strangers to each other before the night began, have to set aside their differences fast, improvising weapons out of whatever a reenactment village happens to have lying around. It leans hard into the absurdity of its premise rather than playing it straight, which is the whole point.
Cast & crew
Peyton Elizabeth Lee and Corey Fogelmanis lead the ensemble, with Carla Jimenez, Elvis Nolasco, and Jonah Lees filling out a cast that commits to the material's over-the-top energy rather than undercutting it with irony.
Context & significance
Directed by Justin Harding, "Carved" is a 2024 American genre film that sits squarely in the comedy-horror tradition of killer-object movies, aiming for laughs as much as scares. It carries a 4.4 IMDb rating, which tracks with a film that's clearly more interested in gleeful excess than technical polish — the kind of seasonal pick that works best with low expectations and a group watching together.
Where & how to watch
"Carved" streams on K-Time with a Persian dub available, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a way to enjoy the film's chaos without subtitles getting in the way. Watching requires only a free K-Time account login, and the page itself can be browsed without signing in. K-Time's interface is built with Farsi navigation front and center for the Iranian diaspora looking for easy seasonal horror.