Blood Relic

In the opening scene we see an officer going berserk and killing people because he is wearing a dog tooth on a rope, or ancient artifact as the film tells us. Later a group of young adults hold a seance and play strip poker in the hanger with some good results and some bad. Harry (Billy Drago) with a bad personality and dental hygiene runs the place. If not for the nudity, this would be a pretty bad slasher. Now part of a film 8-pack. Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Debbie Rochon, Melanie Rademaker, Caitlin Sabins)

A good story and above average acting in Blood Relic. You can never go wrong when Debbie Rochon is in a movie! I'm a Billy Drago fan too but considering the very short amount of time he's on the screen I wonder why he gets top billing and an Associate Producer credit. Debbie and Jen Lauren Grant should have top billing. The other actors were good too. There's a nice amount of gratuitous nudity which you have to have in these type of movies. The sound was annoying. One second I'm turning it up to hear the dialog a second later music plays or another sound comes up and blows out my ear drums. It looked like they had a great time making this movie and that translated well for me. See if you notice something you rarely see in horror movies at the end. I noticed it quickly and said I'll be damned.

A navy Pilot (John Christian) with an evil talisman goes ape crap and starts killing people for no reason.Before he's captured and locked away in an asylum, he hides the talisman in a hanger: 22 years later, the hangers are being re-opened to serve as an air space museum. Harry (Bill Drago), a rather obsessed man, is in charge of this project, and he brings in a group of you folks: Terry (Jennifer Lauren Grant), Pam (Melanie Radmaker). Max (Jesse Steccato), Corey (Debbie Rochon), Dan (Joshua Park, Rachel (Kelly Ray) and Allison (Caitlin Saibins, to clean the place up and work as tour guides once the place is open. Pilot Hank is released from the mental institution at the same time and he kinda wants his talisman back. But one of the gang is a scavenger, and she finds the talisman. It disturbs her and so she gives it to Harry, who locks it away. Then the killing starts and the kids decide to have a séance. Great idea huh? They're not timid about gore, here, but at the same time,they don't over use it. And some of these people deserve to die. I like when a film has characters that you actually want to die. It gives one a sense of satisfaction. Because in some way, you always kinda root for the killer, as long as he's killing people who deserve it. And have you ever noticed that, in the movie world, in any given group of kids together in a bad situation, someone ALWAYS has a Ouija board? The sound here was rather bad, but this was the screener, I'm assuming that would be fixed in the final version. The lighting was excellent here, used to good effect, but never too much. The film isn't shy about nudity, which is always a good thing. There's too much hand-held camera-work for my tastes. I realize the hand-held camera-work is supposed to make the action scenes more immediate, but here's the tip. The film is lensed in 24P digital video, and DV has the effect of making jitters of hand-held camera work more noticeable and more irritating. Fortunately, there's not enough of it to hurt the film. The sets should also be mentioned here, I don't know how the filmmakers scored these sets on a low budget but they're GREAT. The acting is professional level. I found Debbie Rochon a little wasted here, playing essentially a side (but interesting) character. Debbie Rochon is easily capable of taking the lead in any feature she works in, which is not a slight to the other actors featured. The flick has a very nice ending, and the credit sequence, which features out takes, is not to be missed. In the final analysis, I enjoyed the film a great idea. It was fun. - Ron Leming The Hacker's Source Magazine

Blood Relic (2005) is another in a long line of terrible straight-to-video movies. Some are fun but most of them are dreadful and unwatchable. This is one of those that need to be not seen and never heard from. The only reason that I didn't give this movie a straight zero was that low budget movie queen Debbie Rochon was in the picture and she was hot to look at. Other than that I wouldn't give it the time of day. Billy Drago looks like he drank all of his money. He could barely stand up and all he did was mumble his badly written dialog. He tries to come off like Udo Kier. But Udo's cool and he can still deliver a performance. Billy Drago was just too painful to watch. A bad movie all around that doesn't warrant a further look. Stay away, not recommended.

Blood Relic