Summer's Blood (2009)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Please don't spend money on this.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

What a strange movie this is! Is it supposed to be some macabre humor? It seemed to take itself much too serious for that. As a thriller it didn't have enough suspense and the storyline just was too thin. And as a downright horror flick it didn't have enough scares or gore. So the net result was a non-distinct mix of everything and nothing. On the positive side I have to say that the acting was over-all fine. Maybe Ashley Greene didn't have to stretch her abilities, since she most of the time walks around as a traumatized zombie. But the parents were great, especially Stephen McHattie as the father is very convincing as an intimidating, self-assured but always good-humored psychopath. And I have to give due credit to Peter Mooney as the weird and mentally deranged son. I thought he did a terrific job, his acting is a perfect mixture of boyish charm, insecurity and innocence with hair-raising bursts of sudden violence and unpredictable behaviour. I saw Peter Mooney in the TV series Falcon Beach and snubbed his performance on IMDb, but now I see that that was due to bad casting and a way too shallow character-definition in the script. Here he's absolutely great! Now back to the negatives. There were all these illogical things that kept amazing me. We're made to believe that the son habitually abducted girls to lock up and torture in the family basement. Why? And why does mother condone this rather quaint behaviour? It never gets explained. He does this for years and years? Didn't the police or anyone come and search for missing persons? Where did they ditch the bodies? What was the purpose of the "garden"? Did I miss some metaphor here? Or are the (numerous?) bodies buried there? The script never gives any clue.Suddenly the evil father shows up (very convenient for the storyline, since he turns out to be exactly the lost father that our heroine is searching for). He doesn't seem to have much affection for either wife or son, in fact he relentlessly and without a single hesitation kills them on the spot to claim the girl for himself. So what kept him from doing the same thing much earlier, I mean, he apparently made these visits frequently, and he must often have found a locked-up girl there that he fancied for himself. Our heroine succeeds in winning some trust with her captors and is eventually allowed to roam freely within the house. Was she so numbed that she couldn't make a go for an escape? She seemed to have had ample opportunities. The ending was an anti-climax, to say the least. When evil daddy leaves the car to chat with an innocent by-standing woman (presumably to inflict some terrible harm on her), our heroine leaves the car and stabs him in the back. The end. Come-on now, couldn't they have done a little bit better than that!?! I know that many horror movies make the death of the villain/monster etc. a bit too elaborate, with countless miraculous and sudden resurrections before the final and most spectacular blow is given. But here everything ends with a dreadful puff: deranged son and mother killed with one shot, father killed with one stab, that's it. I want my money back!!

First of all, I loved this movie.Now, I am a Twilight fan, which is what mainly interested me in seeing Ashley Greene in this.I expected a gore-fest, but I was wrong.Although it wasn't what I had wanted, or expected, I did love it.The ending was off.But it surprises you, and keeps you awake until the end.If you're interested in horror/thriller movie survivors, then I would recommend this to you.This movie is mainly of the girls' escape, but it keeps you interested enough so you'll continue to watch it.Several plot twists and turns make it all the wild.You'll constantly be asking yourself what the heroes will do.So, yeah, I really did like it.Although the story plot seems so unoriginal that it looks bad; it isn't.But trust me.You'll be glad you watched it.It is not the best movie out there, but it is worth the watch.The movie looks cheap and and bad, but it actually is a great movie.I know, I know.The cover looks like it would be sold with every two boxes of Apple Jacks you purchase at the store, but give it a shot.You'll be glad you did.What I'm trying to say is that I loved the movie...and I hope you will check it out:)

Just watched "Summer's Blood" and I can say it's worth-watching movie. I'm pleasantly surprised to see Ashley Greene in such a serious role. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes this style. It's a story that keeps you "awake" to the end, you can't figure out what the heroes are going to do. At short I really, really LOVE this movie and I'll record it on a disk with "Thirteen","Deep Winter" and "Lords of Dogtown". "Summer's blood" is unique movie as i saw it. It has good plot, very good actors and keeps the public in tension. Honestly I downloaded it because of Ashley Greene and I'm definitely glad that I did watched it. It's nice. Love it.

After receiving the DVD today I thought it looked like one you would get free in a newspaper in a few years time.(Like 'The Night Caller' that wasn't so good).But nevertheless I watched it anyway and I have to say for a 15 day shoot it is very good. Predictable at times but then a lot of films are these days. There was some good acting from Ashley Green and most other actors. I especially like Stephen McHattie in the film, for some reason the way he delivered his lines was quite amusing. The film's ending wasn't spectacular but better than some I have seen. I would definitely recommend seeing this.......