Greetings & Salutations Fellow Movie Purveyors
It has been a while has it not? I hope you all continue to be well.
What’s that notoriously accurate quote? “These are uncertain times”?
Well … It’s high time I got back around to writing up a few reviews for movie suggestions and the folks at ‘Skewed & Reviewed’ were generous enough to set a few aside for me and have I got a selection for you that is something new with a rather ingenious concept/story as it’s premise. Today’s selection is the soon-to-be-released horror film ‘Bleeding’.
Written and directed by Andrew Bell ‘Bleeding’ stars Tori Wong, Jay Dunn, Josh Krol, John R. Howley, Chole Sirene, and Jasper Jones.
Set in the present day, the movie depicts a world where vampires are not only real but hunted but not for the usual/stereotypical reasons. Vampires are hunted down so they can be captured and their blood harvested to be used as a powerful narcotic by humans. The film as taken the idea of a drug epidemic and turned the concept on its head by combining it with the horrors of vampirism.
Eric (Howley) and his cousin Sean (Jones) go on the run after a local drug dealer fronts Sean a significant quantity for narcotics laced with vampire blood and circumstances prevent Sean from being able to pay back the drug dealer. Amongst the circumstances are Sean’s partaking in said narcotics and the fact that Sean’s father is also an alcoholic law enforcement officer.
What follows is a downward spiral that inevitably befalls many drug users and addicts. The situation is further complicated when they find Sara (Wong) locked inside the house the two cousins were seeking refuge in. Sara’s story is more horrifying as Eric and Sean’s as she was made a vampire against her will ….. by humans who are also connected to local drug dealers.
What follows as a journey into the depths, lows, and ultimate depravity of what people whom have succumbed to addiction will go to in order to acquire drugs to feed their abdication or to profit from the addictions of others and the true horror that arise when humans give into such horrors.
Now, absolutely mean this as a compliment …. This film was difficult to watch. Not because it was ‘bad’ but because it was the most well done horror film I had seen in ages. I had to turn it off every once in a while because it was so disturbing to me because of the way the story is depicted. I was 100% horrified. And THAT is what a successful horror film should do for the viewer. Everyone involved in making them film deserves all the credit in the world for this unique concept and the way the chose to show it to potential viewers.
Based on a 5 star system I am definitely giving it 4 stars. The film is set to be released in June 10th so find it wherever you can, set aside an evening for yourselves and some friends whom are horror movie aficionados and partake in this film. I very much doubt you’ll be disappointed.
Available on Screambox + VOD beginning tomorrow 6/10
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