Blood
- 2022
- 1h 48m
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5.5/10
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Jess, a separated mother and nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the dog, resulting in a mysterious in... Read allJess, a separated mother and nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the dog, resulting in a mysterious infection from the bite.Jess, a separated mother and nurse, moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten by the dog, resulting in a mysterious infection from the bite.
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- TriviaIn a 2023 interview with Film International, Brad Anderson spoke about the origin of the setting and the importance of ambiguity in horror stories: "In the original script there was a cave that the kids found as opposed to a dry lake with a tree and the tree was something I brought into it partly because we shot the movie in Winnipeg Canada where there are no caves but I also just like the idea of an old tree being somehow representative of whatever the potentially supernatural element is. There's a moment when she looks and sees bats going into the tree and you could think that maybe there's something in there, in the same way that bats were apparently the reason that COVID-19 kicked in. There are little references like that but image of a single tree in this sort of muddy little swamp to me was really creepy and intriguing and asks a lot of questions. There are little subtle things like there's a moment in the beginning when you see a picture from the people who lived in this house like a hundred years ago and it's the same tree but that tree is in blossom and alive, so it's died over the years and maybe it's become this kind of place where bad stuff lives. I would like to keep a little mystery in the story. I think the best kind of horror lives in between spots and it's not overly explained because if you over explain the monster then the monster loses its power to scare you. We did at one point flirted with the idea of seeing something in there like seeing a humanoid shape but I just felt in the end it's more interesting to let the audience ask that question whether they have an answer to it or not. There had to be a kind of reason why this kid gets infected, some sort of explanation, but you don't want to go too far with that, at least in my mind. I think it's better to have a little ambiguity in the story."
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I wanted to like it.
When I saw Blood had Skeet Ulrich in it, I thought - okay this won't be a bad movie.
And I'm not saying that the film is bad. It had a good story idea, but just really fell flat for me, and dragged on way too long. It was highly predictable too, but I guess it is hard not to be with what is a 'vampire' film.
I'm not going to knock the acting, it was fine. The sets were fine, the directing was fine. It just didn't have me on the edge of my seat and I was struggling to watch it come the mid way mark.
I think it was just badly executed. It needed more action, it needed to have at least 28 minutes shaved off it.
The special effects makeup was quite poor as well, especially towards the end of the film.
I really don't know what else to say, apart from yeah it just left me feeling a bit blah.
Would I recommend Blood? Probably not. I really gained nothing from it.
It is really a very slow burn that really doesn't take you anywhere, besides what needs to be done.
And I'm not saying that the film is bad. It had a good story idea, but just really fell flat for me, and dragged on way too long. It was highly predictable too, but I guess it is hard not to be with what is a 'vampire' film.
I'm not going to knock the acting, it was fine. The sets were fine, the directing was fine. It just didn't have me on the edge of my seat and I was struggling to watch it come the mid way mark.
I think it was just badly executed. It needed more action, it needed to have at least 28 minutes shaved off it.
The special effects makeup was quite poor as well, especially towards the end of the film.
I really don't know what else to say, apart from yeah it just left me feeling a bit blah.
Would I recommend Blood? Probably not. I really gained nothing from it.
It is really a very slow burn that really doesn't take you anywhere, besides what needs to be done.
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- Mar 3, 2023
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- $291,581
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 2.39:1
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