Bleed
2002
Reviewed by D.R. Hesse
1/9/2012
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Language: English
Original Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Directed by Matt Flynn
Cast: Danica McKellar, Jay Kenneth Johnson and William Forsythe
Synopsis
Maddy(Debbie Rochon) attends a party with her new boyfriend only to find that he's in a special club called the "Murder Club".
DVD Release
Bleed was released by Full Moon Pictures on their Shadow Entertainment label in 2002. The film was shot on DV and it definitely shows. The scenes with inadequate lighting look terrible and very drab which is pretty typical for a DV Film. Overall it's okay to watch. The audio sounds decent but very amateurish.
Extras
Deleted Scenes - Ten different deleted/extended scenes. Meh Skip.
Rehersal Footage - four different rehersals with very bad audio. Skip.
Cast/Crew Biographies - We get some text biographies for Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske, Allen Nabors, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Laura Nativo, Devin S. Hamilton and Dennis Peterson.
Easter Eggs- Danny Wolske Audtion Tape - on his biography screen.
- Ronnie Gene Blevins Audtion Tape - on his biography screen.
- Laura Nativo Audtion Tape - on her biography screen.
- A Taste of Beauty Short Film- (12:03) a 16mm student film on Devin Hamilton biography screen.
- Axe and Ye Shall Receive Short FIlm - (14:50) short film by Dennis Peterson on his biography screen.
Trailers - The trailers are for other Full Moon titles.
- Bleed- (1:00) Anamorphic trailer. A lot better than the actual film sadly./li>
- Cut Throat - (1:27) Non-anamorphic trailer. Slasher film, looks stereotypical.
- Groom Lake- (1:32) Non-anamorphic trailer. Sci-fi movie.
- Jigsaw - (1:18) Anamorphic trailer. Another slasher flick in the woods.
- Skinned Alive - (2:00) Full screen trailer. Grindhouse flick done by J.R. Bookwalter. He also did Witchouse 2: Blood Coven.
Thoughts
If I had to sum this movie up in one word, I would say "boring". This film was made to cash in on the slasher revival that happened in the late 90s but it lacks any form of style. The story follows Maddy(Debbie Rochon) who goes to a party with her new boyfriend only to find out they are all in something called the Murder Club. Maddy really wants to be a part of the club and murders a woman one night only to find out that the group was just making it up. The group starts to get killed one by one and all the fingers point to Maddy. Sounds decent, but it's executed with some of the worst dialog and boring scenes I've seen in a slasher in a long while.
The best acting probably comes from veteran b-movie scream queen Debbie Rochon. Now this isn't to say she's amazing but I think she does okay with what she is given. The rest are all forgetable and are just there for eye candy. Seriously, most of the crew runs around topless or partially naked. The boobs are probably the best thing the film has going for it. A topless Debbie Rochon is nice.
Cinematography and set dressings were such a bore and I know I need to give it a break since it was shot on DV but seriously, throw in some color. I had a decently hard time finding scenes that weren't totally mundane for the photo gallery. Am I being to hard on this film? Probably. But it was such a chore to get through.
I would of liked to see the Murder Club as being real cause then we have a group of people who are being killed one by one and they can't go to the cops because they themselves are killers. Would of made for some good scares and given the group a tangible reason why they can't go to the cops.
Conclusions
Terrible. Just Terrible.
Rating
1/10
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