Bleed (2016)

hyped garbage

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

With a baby on the way, Sarah (Chelsey Crisp) and Matt (Michael Steger) decide to have some friends over to celebrate their new home and new family. It should have been a quiet day, until Sarah's unique brother Eric (Riley Smith) shows up. Eric is a drifter and a ghost hunter, whose bad behavior and odd ball girlfriend threaten to ruin the whole event. Eventually Eric gets into a discussion about what he does, and wanting to silence the skeptics, suggests a ghost hunt at an abandoned nearby prison, that's supposedly haunted. Well how could a woman who is six months pregnant not agree to hike through the woods to a haunted abandon building in the middle of nowhere? That part was a little ridiculous, but the backstory of the prison and the family dynamic actually wasn't too bad, especially for a B-horror movie without any big names attached to it. However that is what also becomes it's downfall, as once the action begins, the lack of experience and money for special effects comes into play, and this film quickly turns more into what I expected it to be. At 40 years old, Riley Smith seems to have been around forever, with over 75 IMDB credits under his belt. He was a pretty interesting character, why there wasn't more of a focus on Eric in the second half of the film, I don't know. I'm just a critic, but I can tell you from my experience, when you lack funds for better special effects, focus on the story and the experienced cast. The filmmakers didn't do that, and the whole thing just kind of falls apart at the end. Bleed wasn't bad for what it was, the first half half was better than expected, the second half, where all the fun stuff happens, was pretty much a disappointment.

The Beginning of this movie set me up to believe this wouldn't be bad. It is. VERY BAD.But once these characters get to the burned out prison it is like several different cliché movies in one. There are so many story lines that are not explained at all. The only thing that makes sense is crazy murderous hillbillies, bad guy ghost isn't so bad. but still kinda bad. Then nothing makes any sense. Why'd he kill the black guy? I thought he was helping them? Maybe only some of them? Birthmarks, what is the deal with them. No idea what the birthmarks mean bc they are never talked about, just that the crazy folk are killing people with them. And killing other people I assume. Can't say why though. Why do the crazy folk want the baby? Who knows! I would say bad plot but as there were several plots, I'll say they were all bad and not thought thru. Full on,waste of time

This movie has almost nothing going for it, so I will keep this review short and sweet. Yes there are spoilers in this review so be warned now.The villain, who looks like a member of the Wyatt family if you are familiar with wrestling right now, turns out not really be the villain, and he is a ghost who can turn into a fireball. Yep. It happens.There are people and kids with this weird birthmark on them that you think you will get a real explanation about. That doesn't happen. Some of the townsfolk seem super natural like but it turns out they are just your run of the mill cliché backwoods people.The characters are all forgettable and unlikable, the story makes no sense, like for example:The "villain", Kane, kills the black guy (shocker) first in the most wtf way (he humps the air and it slices the black dude all up... yea), but then goes on to save the other character later in the movie.While the old creepy burned down prison setting is actually a cool setting, the rest of the movie will make you forget that simply because it is just awful.Skip this one. Watch Last Shift instead which isn't much better, but it was way more coherent than this garbled up mess.Oh and another reviewer mentioned the "barely legible end credits", and he's not kidding. I thought my TV was dimming itself down.

I am always amazed at the movies that people actually have a budget and go on to make like really? Who green lit this project? Is there someone with money to burn out there because I like to know them personally!!!Let's get into it shall we, first and foremost this movie had potential to be great but instead of explaining things clearly or giving things a good explanation or some back story we get flashbacks that mean nothing because we don't know why we're seeing them and how they relate to the story as a whole. If we could have worked on that back story and told us why people with crescent birthmarks were being hunted down and killed then yeah that would have been awesome. How about we learn that Kane was actually trying to help the little girl and not kill her but he was blamed for all the killings then sat on fire by crooked cops.Then how about we not have the pregnant lady get in an accident, then run through the woods, then go into an abandoned prison, then run from bad guys all while being ready to give birth at anytime THEN you have her give birth and then slit her throat wtf? Who wrote this garbage and why does he hate women?Of course the black guy gets killed that's standard for "horror" films, the stoner hippie girl gets killed, everyone gets killed in this movie you know who should have been killed the movie as a whole. It should have just stayed on the editing room floor and been abandoned and forgotten. I can't believe that I watched this whole kill feast the only person that lived was the baby and again why do they keep killing the people with the crescent birthmarks? This was written so badly I get that they tried to fit in back story but the back story was more dynamic then the actually story so they should have just talked about the back story and why the whole town was killing crescent birthmark people, we never got what the symbols meant, we never got none of that because they writer had to be high and sleep deprived when he wrote this.