Bleed

source: Bleed

The story that Rhame tells is a crisp, modern horror tale that stays pretty close to classic horror story ideas. There is the "newcomers to rural America fear", a paranormal element that teases to the horrors to come, and an "abnormal" community of crazy cult people. The characters are contemporary hipster-esque, well developed, and believable enough to be interesting. However they are not all too original, and the direction the story takes them in is slightly off-kilter. Some choices the characters make didn't quite make sense. Still they are far from the standard two-dimensional clichés normally associated with traditional horror movies. "Bleed" has a tight, suspenseful energy that starts slow, and like the characters destiny, rolls into a tense, and bloody nightmare. The cinematography is great and stylized in a manner that offers a claustrophobic quality to the already dark nature of the story. The effects are a blend of well done typical CGI paranormal tricks and practical gory effects that offer blunt, visceral moments of carnage. "Bleed" is a B-level movie that creates an atmospheric, thrilling nightmare worth watching.

It is kinda all over the place. Also it isn't very entertaining.

I can handle a horror movie that doesn't end up being scary as long as it is a decent attempt at film making and tells a good story. This was just a complete mess....that's all I can say. Horrible script, abysmal acting, and a complete waste of time.

I hate when big city liberals try to make a movie about small town, flyover country people, and they base it entirely on how other hollywooders have shown them in the past. You have the hillbillies, hunting rabbits, "a bullet straight to heaven", talking about angels, sin, and other hollywood tripe.

This wasn't an unwatchable movie. It started out okay. I kept watching so I could find out exactly what the heck was going on. I never did get that satisfaction. The characters weren't fleshed out at all. You're given a little interesting information, but their never explained. I need answers! Why were the mountain folk abducting and possibly...I think...killing them? I'm still not 100% sure. Why was Kane being all scary and then is suddenly helping? Why the hell did they want her baby? Why? Nothing's explained. The characters made so many stupid decisions. All I was left with is a confused and unsatisfied feeling. There was potential for a good story, but it was sadly wasted.

I didn't completely dislike this film. In fact, especially at the beginning, I found it quite enjoyable. It did an excellent job at building up the suspense and the mystery, which really kept me invested, and some of the camera work, like with the cuts between visions, was very effective. But then some of the movie was just so odd. The background music in a couple scenes frankly did a disservice to what could have been some creepy or tense moments, and the chase scene as a whole was bizarre. I almost felt at some points that this film really could not decide what it wanted to be, which is a shame because it starts off so well, and this was really emphasized for me in some of the gorier scenes - intended to be scary and violent but kind of cheesy, in my opinion. The storyline is a little convoluted, but I did not have too much of a hard time keeping up because, as I said earlier, the beginning drew my attention well enough that I didn't end up paying only partial attention. Also, I think Chelsey Crisp and Brittany Ishibashi were especially phenomenal. I'll be keeping an eye out for any future work! All in all, a decent film! My feelings about it run on the extreme side: some parts made me REALLY like it, but others made me really dislike it, and I just don't have any middling opinions. Make of that what you will.

I decided to watch this film driven by the seductive trailer, but much to my surprise I called it quits a little more than halfway through because the movie falls between two stools: it was unable to engage me or at least entertain me. The beginning looked promising but as soon as the other people started arriving at the house, the film lost substance with unfitting and incongruent dialogues which attempted to build up a story that is played out so painfully slow and, worse still, defying the purpose of the film. Namely because there is a distinct lack of horror in much of the first half of the film. Then the unfolding story doesn't hold true. For instance, no loving husband in his right senses would leave his wife in an advanced stage of pregnancy completely on her own at a new house in the middle of nowhere simply because he wants to challenge his brother in-law who fancies going in search of ghosts in an abandoned and derelict former prison that happens to be nearby. In terms of the acting, I think that Chelsey Crisp did try her hardest to defend her credible role. However, that of the remaining disparate cast leaves a lot to be desired, which makes the film even more appalling. If you are looking for a great horror film, do not waste your time and money on this one because it neglects to be an enjoyable good one.

Terrible movie. I actually wasted 1hr and like 20 minutes of my life watching this and the sad thing is people around the world are starving and instead of giving money towards them, they made this piece of trash. I've never seen anything like this, and I pray no one ever sees anything like this again. Don't watch this movie. The plot was garbage AT BEST. I know preschool age children who could write a better screenplay. If there's one thing it had nothing of, it was character development. They literally brought up how this girl has schizophrenia and never referenced how that was important. They spent 0.67978 seconds discussing their backgrounds and just laid out "oh we were haunted as kids then butterflies saved us" but literally never explained why or how that was a thing. Why did Cain look like that in all the jump scared if he wasn't a real serial killer? And why tf did Cain kill the black guy if he wasn't even evil. And who killed the Asian girl? Also did the husband die or not and why did she just leave her man like that? There was literally no plot, so many loose ends. I cant believe i actually sat through that. Don't make my same mistake.

Spoilers in here (well, sort of). I wanted to like this movie, I really did. In fact, the first few minutes were actually kinda creepy, and make you want to watch more. Why did the little girl have the birthmark? Why did the creepy guy try to chase her down? But then...we switch to the current time period, and everything kinda falls apart. You've got the standard horror movie characters - you know, like the couples that go camping at Crystal Lake, or the friends on a road trip where the car breaks down, etc. In this case, you have a pregnant couple, the pregnant lady's friends, and her asinine brother with his hippie chick girlfriend. OK, pretty standard. I give this movie 3 stars because some of "scare" moments were kinda cool and gory. Also, the primary location at the old burned down prison was effectively scary. But aside from that, the film made no sense. Why did the hillbilly cultists want the baby? Is the baby supposed to be a savior, or some sort of Antichrist? What exactly did this Cannibal Kane character do? It seems like he's trying to scare everyone off...but wait, he's trying to help? And if his spirit is trying to help, why didn't he follow Miss Prego when she got picked up in the van? What the hell happened to the kids when they were younger and got saved by butterflies? I do love my horror movies, good and bad, but they need to at least have a cohesive plot of some sort. Any plot that this might have had got completely unraveled and twisted up with no clarification at the end. If the movie had at least 10 or 15 more minutes to flesh out the plot and give meaning, it could have been really good. Oh well.