BloodRayne Review
by Mark R. Leeper (markrleeper AT yahoo DOT com)October 12th, 2004
BLOOD
(a film review by Mark R. Leeper)
CAPSULE: A two-person play of a brother's and sister's verbal and physical battle with each other involving drugs, sex (including incest), and enough else to make this film a thoroughly unpleasant experience. Rating: -2 (-4 to +4) or 1/10
A brother and sister verbally tear at each other and try to get under each other's skin while they engage in attempts to manipulate each other. This is a filmed one-act play and the one act seems verbal abuse. Noelle, a drug addict (played by Emily Hampshire) wants her brother Chris (Jacob Tierney), a convicted thief, to join her in one hour for a ménage à trois. A mutual acquaintance wants to try a threesome and is willing to pay $300. That is how their brother-sister discussion starts. Things go downhill from there with bondage and incest during constant verbal and drug abuse. These are two people you would probably cross the street to avoid. Why would you want to spend more than an hour in a room listening to them? Charming.
The immediacy of the performances is damaged by some gimmicky camera work like using split screen to show two characters who could easily have been shown in a less artificial shot. Jerry Ciccoritti directs from his own adaptation of the play by Tom Walmsley. The editing is experimental, and I would like to think the whole film is an experiment that just went wrong.
I almost always sit though a film. I sat through this film. Learn from my mistakes.
Mark R. Leeper
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Copyright 2004 Mark R. Leeper
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