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Frank and
Donnie are two brothers who live together in
the middle of the woods. One day, Donnie gets in
a fight with two of the locals and Frank quickly
comes to his rescue, something which makes Frank snap
and go on a wild killing rampage. Together they kidnap
a young woman called Beth and force her to help them
with their horrible crimes. Will anyone be able to
stop the brothers before it's too late?
Bloodshed is just painfully slow-paced. It physically
hurts to watch the first fifty minutes since you're
digging your nails hard into your knees trying to
avoid pushing the fast forward button. If you do get
past the first fifty minutes though, you're in for a
hell of a time... Well, at least it seemed like it
compared to the rest of the movie. But if the truth
should be told, it never becomes better than average.
Rookie director Jim McMahon does a decent job behind
the camera. There are a couple of nice angles and
technically, the movie does look superior to most DTV
horror movies. Unfortunately, nice angles doesn't
mean a lot when the movie is as slow-paced and flawed
as this was. I mean, why does Katie look so scared
when she's walking through the woods? And what's up
with her walking so slowly? There's a path right there,
why not get on it? And furthermore, how the hell do
you manage to fall and get impaled by a branch when
jogging through the woods? Other than that, the acting
is, for what its worth, surprisingly decent. Shana
Lee Klisanin (playing Beth) sure knows how to scream
and the shots of her covered in blood were great.
I really wanted to enjoy this movie but I just couldn't.
Sure, the final fifteen minutes were pretty good but
the rest of the movie was inexcusably bad (and what
was up with the ending?). I'm not sure whether Jim
McMahon was trying to copy Frailty or Texas Chainsaw
Massacre, either way, he didn't succeed. I don't really
have a whole lot more to say about this movie as there's
not really much of a story to be found in here. Save
yourself the time and money and skip this one.
Some decent axe-action but nothing special.
The soundtrack somehow felt incomplete. For most of
the time the movie is uncomfortably silent and when
we actually do get some music, it consists of a
weak, abstract melody played on violin.
I hate to use this word but Bloodshed was down-right
boring. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie
that was this slow-paced and if you ask me, they should
just cut it down and make it a short feature instead.
Unless they decide to re-shoot 80% of the movie, don't
waste your time with this one even if the final fifteen
minutes are pretty decent.
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