The Bleeding House (2011)

Sick Product of a Sick System

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

A strange thing happened to me with this movie: I was thoroughly involved the whole time, and when it ended I was like "wow". But only a few moments later I started remembering the clichéd and unbelievable situations, the bland characters, the story that goes nowhere, the ending without a payoff, the lack of mood or anything vaguely scary and the terrible dialogue. Why the heck did I like this movie while I was watching? I guess is that because my imagination just ran wild. The "secret" is so predictable - like other reviewers pointed out - that I thought it was *not* the secret, and that there would be something else. Basically, I was expecting Gloria to be a vampire, or Nick to have been sent by the devil, or some big conspiracy involving the whole town to be disclosed. Since I was pretty much the only one who expected those things, I guess it is not a spoiler to say that none of that came to happen.Hence my post-movie disappointment. That is basically the problem with "The Bleeding House": Gloria does not turn out to be a vampire.

This is one of those horror films that deceives any prior expectations. A family goes into self isolation in a Texas suburb, because of a deep dark secret concerning the bizarre behavior of the daughter Gloria(Alexandra Chando). A mysterious visitor(Patrick Breen)comes to their door needing a place to stay for the night due to car troubles. How many horror flicks have started this way? The visitor senses tension among the family members. Mom(Betsy Aidem)and Dad(Richard Bekins)are very reluctant to let the stranger enter their home; but for the sake of some normalcy allow him in...that is a big mistake. The stranger wearing a rumpled overcoat and toting a worn-out leather bag has secrets of his own. The movie gets more interesting as the talkative visitor begins demonstrating his own bad behavior. The acting is definitely bland and the visitor's poor attempt at a southern accent gets increasingly annoying. Breen although does fill the bill of villain well. Probably the lack of budgeting is the blame for the dull scenery and atmosphere.

Watchable ,for a low budget film was not that terrible, too dark though enough to produce eye strain , was far better than movies with big stars that suck lately , but there was not too much suspense, was so much predictable, but generally i was felt satisfied about the amount of blood was spended on the film , i think that sadistic thrillers of this kind are more beilivable with unnfamous actors than with big stars , so it was OK to watch but something in the film was not going OK i think the editing of the scenes or the pace it was a little bit confused and made the film a little bit boring but the low budget explains everything also i didn't liked the music ,also the end sucked. If you watch it you don't have anything to lose also you wont feel happy or satisfied after the boring end. 5/5

My standards for horror movies in general are pretty low. Usually, I am the only person who enjoys a "bad movie" while the rest of the world is utterly disappointed... but the tables turned when I watched The Bleeding House.For the most part, the acting was horrible. In particular, I was expecting Alexandra Chandro, who supposedly played the lead female character, to deliver something half-decent... but this was not the case. I use the word "supposedly" because no matter how much her character was supposed to contribute to the story, her significance fell totally flat. It seemed as though the main character was played by the weakest actress in the bunch. Way too amateur. If not for the actress' IMDb profile, I would have guessed that they randomly picked a girl off the street and gave her less than 5 minutes to read the script.The story was not as original as other reviews here make you think. I was bored the entire time.In fact, the only reason I watched the whole movie was because I spent money for it. In retrospect, even that was a mistake.