Bloodlines (2007/Horror)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C+     Extras: D     Feature: D

 

 

In another very, very, very lame attempt to jump on the neo-Texas Chain Saw bandwagon, Stephen Durham’s awful Bloodlines (2007) involves another family of “freaks” and murders who like torture, butchery and may be cannibalistic, figuratively if not literally.  Yawn!

 

This hack-work is one of the poorest and lamest of all the bad such titles we have seen lately and also too-easily fits into the cycle of snuff-like junk beginning with a pregnant woman held hostage to be mutilated and who knows what else.  Ultimately, makers of these projects are the most self-impressed and least talented.  Avoid this one at all costs.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is badly shot by Director of Photography Ricardo Jaques Gale and badly edited by David McClellan, who I note so they take equal responsibility for this 92 minutes of my life lost.  This is softer than it should be, but I sort of expected it after the opening scene.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is not always recorded well, but is barely competent.  Extras include trailers for this and a few other THINKFilm releases and a bizarre audio commentary by Durham that is just stunning in its obliviousness.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo