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How can such a good movie be so bad?, 31 March 2003
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James J. Dominguez (DexX) from Melbourne, Australia
Bleeders is, in a single word, baffling. It features a competent cast,
including the always fantastic Rutger Hauer, and a bunch of unknowns who
provide us with far better performances than we generally have inflicted
upon us in low-budget straight-to-video horror. The location is gorgeous -
a foggy fishing island somewhere off the eastern coast of Canada. The gore
and monster makeup are extremely good, too. Even the script is adequate,
containing no really awful dialogue or bizarre character
motivations.
Add all these elements together, and you should end up with a solid little
low budget horror film. Instead... well, you get Bleeders.
Its main fault is a serious cinematic crime: it is boring. I lay the blame
for this unforgiveable flaw at the feet of the director and, to a lesser
extent, the composer. The whole film is terribly paced. There is never any
sense of urgency or danger throughout. It seems that the director has never
seen a horror or thriller film before, as he certainly has no idea how to
built suspense or deliver a shock. Scenes dealing with life and death feel
identical to those featuring leisurely chats about genealogy. The whole
film just feels terribly flat.
The score really doesn't help. It is simply the most boring and pointless
movie score I have heard in years. In the first few minutes, I was thinking
it was pretty. An hour and a half later, after listening to what seemed to
be the same five minutes of music on a loop, I hated it. The music, like
the direction, is utterly flat. Character scenes and supposedly scary
scenes are all scored the same. Like the director, the composer seemed to
have no idea what a horror film score is there for. It certainly isn't
supposed to be something pretty to listen to when there's no
dialogue.
These two problems are bad enough, but they are compounded by the fact that
Bleeders is shot on video. This constant visual reminder of the movie's
cheap nature, as well as its inept direction and bland score, make the whole
film feel like an episode of some dodgy TV show, destined to be axed after a
single season. Only the occasional splashes of gore and explicit sex scenes
mark it as being something not made for TV.
It's a terrible waste of talent and potential. Okay, the best bits of the
story are stolen from Lovecraft, but it could have been a fun Lovecraft
ripoff, as opposed to yet another bad one. What a pity... it really could
have been good.
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