(Director: Alister Grierson. Screenwriter: Robert Benjamin.)
Review
BLOODY is an above-average, fast-paced, horror mash-up flick. In it, Rex (Ben O’Toole) is a wrongly imprisoned ex-con who heads to Finland for a fresh start. Upon arriving in his new country, he is kidnapped. He wakes up hanging in a basement. Fortunately, or unfortunately for him, he talks to his visualized conscience, which has a dark, nasty sense of humor, an aspect of himself that may save him or expedite his doom.
What follows is a fresh take on what could’ve been a familiar situation. I won’t say much beyond that, except there’s plenty of effective twists in this frenetic, lots-of-dark-humor and (as the title says) bloody film. If you’re looking for deep characterization or ponderings on life, this probably is not the movie for you. Screenwriter Robert Benjamin gives viewers enough facts and visual clues for us to figure out why people and things are the way they are. His writing is given full life by choice dialogue, a few well-timed jump scares, and actors, who across the board, nail their unusual roles. Also, there’s lots of violence─some of it slapstick funny─and an irreverence that is sadly lacking in many films these days. Check this out if you’re looking for something different, deft, hilarious, and splatteriffic.
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