Vancouver filmmaker releases 12th horror flick in six years, just in time for Halloween

‘Come to one of our meetings” sounds like an invitation into something good.

In the new horror film “Conjuring the Cult,” it’s a step toward something very, very bad.

“Bad movies for bad people” is the slogan at Vancouver filmmaker Calvin McCarthy’s company, 7th Street Productions. McCarthy’s latest indulgence in badness, “Conjuring the Cult,” is streaming now on Amazon Prime and will start streaming Oct. 1 on other platforms including AppleTV and Plex.

McCarthy, who attended Cascade Middle School and Evergreen High School, was thrilled when his previous film, the extremely low-budget “Insidious Inferno,” wound up last year on a New York Times list of “Five Horror Films to Stream Right Now.” The Times called the film “unabatingly odd and enthusiastically macabre.”

Now, McCarthy is back in time for Halloween with “Conjuring the Cult,” which he wrote and directed.

It’s the story of a bereaved father who turns to a self-help group and gets a lot more than he bargained for — namely, the resurrection of his dead child.

Does that sound like a good thing?

“Conjuring the Cult” is 7th Street’s 12th feature film in six years. Most of the movie was filmed in Bremerton, McCarthy said.