Blood on Her Name

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It's hard to be a single mother. Leigh id running a business when her husband is in jail and standing by her delinquent son who has blinded another boy in the eye. When a man breaks down into Leigh's garage it ends in his death. Inspite of everything Leigh is a good person. Would it be her undoing? Modern indie films always plays safe. If you examine most of low budget genre films they are the repeat of what has been done before. Then you stumble on a gem like BLOOD ON HER NAME and realise what independent cinema is really about. Always challenging the viewer, always keeping a mystery card up its sleeve, the film confidently leads us towards the heartbreaking finale. BLOOD ON HER NAME is all good news. The acting is superb. Particularly from Bill Patton, who makes the film. His energy carries it forward and his character has a few surprises in store. The lead Bethany Anne Lind is believable as a woman who is not perfect but who has everything to lose. At the same time she is not ready to compromise on her values. Again she does a great job, as virtues are hard to sell. This is the first film from Matthew Pope, and for a first picture it is almost perfect. The accents are right, the violence is not over the top, the drama is heartbreaking and there's even a message one can carry out as the credits roll. The characters are deep enough to care for (even villains) but not deep enough to be a bore. I highly recommend this little thriller. Without a doubt it deserves a widescreen release more than most of this month's big releases.

For a change I am not going to give spoilers. I am also rating it 10 stars to counterbalance what I believe are unfair ratings. All of the actors were believable and really good, especially the lead actress as you follow her through an unfolding nightmare and I agonized watching it, it made me really uncomfortable and I watch a lot of hard-core horror. This wasn't that kind of horror, just the kind you might encounter in everyday life. And it uses very effectively flashbacks the way movies should, not as a style but as a way to unfold the past to better inform you on what is really going on. I was very impressed as I didn't expect as much as it delivered.

Nice low budget well acted indie flix. If you want to dispose of a body this is the way not to do it. Bethany Anne Lind plays Leigh Tiller a single mum trying to run a garage and cover her tracks. The ever young Will Patton plays her dad and local sheriff, the relationship between the two is strained especially when he finds out what she's done. Things spiral out of control to a ending thats from a spaghetti western. Good watch better than wasting your hard earned money on cinema rubbish.

This film start with a woman "Leigh" staring at a dead man on the ground, and she closing the garage's door scene! As turnout, this film is about Leigh need to cover up her son "Ryan" for killing a husband of a woman "Dani"! Entire film full of boring conversation, and annoying overuse scene! Such as, overuse of the driving scene, overuse of the walking scene, overuse of the taking pill scene, overuse of the calling names scene, overuse of the searching scene, overuse of the drinking scene, overuse of the arguing scene, and overuse of the staring scene! Make the film unwatchable! Barely intense scene is, Dani stabbing Richard to kill him! At the end, Dani killing Leigh to revenge for her husband! Leigh open her eyes at the very end! That's it! Wasting time to watch!

A movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the entire tight 85 minute run time. A well crafted story and astounding directorial debut by Matthew Pope, "Blood On Her Name" will keep you entranced the entire duration. A simple tale of a struggling auto garage owner and mother named Leigh, played by Bethany Anne Lind, trying to carefully dispose of a body is turned upside down when her conscious get the best of her and she feels the need to return the dead mans body to his family for the deceased mans' girlfriend and son's peace of mind. With a stellar breakout performance from Bethany Anne Lind, and great complimentary work from the likes of Jared Ivers, and the always great Will Patton, this film is truly Leigh's, story "Blood on her name" is a well written thriller with noir hints. It is dark, gritty, raining, and all of the staples of a noir with its own caviats. With shots reminiscent of "Prisoners", director of photography Matthew Rodgers shines. His work absolutely engulfed you in Leigh's struggles. You feel the weight of the world coming down on her. The film work is not flashy, but it is flawless and is the perfect compliment to stellar acting and stellar writing. Although throughout the movie you just want to scream at the faltering protagonist, you realize the realism of it all. There are no criminal masterminds in this movies, and no big criminal organizations. It shows you the underbelly of a corrupt eroding town. Leigh makes many mistakes, but that is much more natural than someone who has never covered up a crime to do it perfectly. This movies is realism at its finest, and perfectly contrasts heinous acts and the lengths people will go to for survival, with the moral compass we all have, and the difficulty of shaking that

Blood on her Name was 85 minutes of torture for me and I love crime dramas. Tarantino is my favorite director. This is not Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, two of his best. A white trash woman is shown at the opening covered in blood and holding a very large wrench. A man is lying on the floor of a garage and the killer woman moves the body around against all common sense. Her dad appears to be the only cop in the entire neighborhood and her son is on probation for fighting in school. Oh, and her husband is in jail. There is not one person to identify with for the audience, unless one has just been paroled after completing a sentence for burglary and crack addiction. The ending is ridiculous and this is a truly bad film.

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Good support actors made this movie worth watching.

96% tomato rating. Wow, who paid them off? Made for tv dribble. So boring and drawn out for a 84 minute movie. Fast forwarded thru many boring parts. Lame acting, couple of known actors to help bump this movie. Couldn't save this predictable movie.