BLOOD SOAKED’s story revolves around two daughters of a Nazi soldier; when their father dies they inject him with some sort of concoction that turns him into a zombie. The girls then go on a murder spree to create a zombie army, and for food for the undead they have created. Two college lesbians come across the psycho sisters and it becomes a battle for survival.
This film is a prime example why the horror genre has become a fast food product. Any horror film with a feature length running time, no matter how horrible it is, can get distribution. This film is dreadful. Writer / Director Peter Grendle’s shots are the worst. I’m assuming pre-production on the film consisted of 30 seconds talking about how awesome this film was going to be. The shots in a sequence don’t match, the camera setups chosen are horrible, and it edits together poorly.
Cinematographer and Editor Tyler King is also to blame for this messy hodgepodge of storytelling. Shooting the footage and as the editor you should know what you need to make a competent sequence; King seems to make no attempt to care during shooting or in the editing room. It’s really bad folks.
The dialogue and actions of the actors are uncomfortable to watch. An example is when the lead character arrives at her dorm for the first time with her mother, and as the mother is talking to her she turns on a radio and starts dancing for no apparent reason. This scene is just as uncomfortable to watch as Mark Patton’s dance sequence in A Nightmare On Elm Street 2, but at least I chuckled at that scene; here I just cringed painfully. The actors themselves come off corny, spitting out lines that Grendle assumes are realistic but comes off as someone pretending to communicate in a realistic fashion.
All the kills are off screen, throats slits are just blood smeared across an actors neck where you can easily see there is no wound. The sound effects are right off the internet, and the selection of these sounds are terrible. It’s like watching an episode of Scooby-Doo when someone gets punched.
Best of all is when one of the main characters turns into a zombie, you’ll laugh out loud at her zombie impersonation. It’s like a zombie trying to dance. It’s the worst zombie performance in film history!
There are a ton more things I can slam away at this waste of time of a film. This one should have been put up on Vimeo so Grendle’s family and friends could see it. Asking the public to throw down any amount of money to watch this garbage is robbery. Stay clear of this cheese ball, well calling it a cheese ball would actually improve this review. So strike that from the record.
Chad Armstrong
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