Bleeders (1997)

You won't be disappointed!

Wonderful character development!

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is an average horror flick that really should be better than it is. The initial screenplay adapts Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear" and was by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. The film sports a beautiful location (Grand Manan Island, Canada) that maintains that same creepy boating town vibe as their earlier DEAD & BURIED, but gets bogged thanks to flat direction from Peter Svatek. Dupuis, who also has the O'Bannon penned SCREAMERS on his resume (his mom must be proud), looks a tad out of place, more like a TWILIGHT reject with his pale skin, flowing hair and bad fashion sense. Hauer is decent in the film and actually survives. Oddly enough, half of the cast also popped up in THE SWEET HEREAFTER the same year. The film does earn points for having harm come to several children through out. Svatek must have some kind of fetish because he moved on to TV movies like BABY FOR SALE (2004) and STOLEN BABIES, STOLEN LIVES (2008).

Before you even start watching this movie you just know that this is not going to be a very good or tense genre movie, so expectations shouldn't be to high before watching this movie. If they aren't, you'll probably be surprised by the fact that this movie is not totally unwatchable.The story, the monsters, the effects, it's visual look, the locations...all really aren't that bad but yet the movie does not work out. It's not a real bad movie to watch but it's just that basically nothing really interesting or tense occurs in the movie. The movie is like one big build up to nothing and in the end it falls flat as an horror movie. The movie has the look but not the feeling of a good horror movie. A wasted opportunity, since this movie had definitely more potential in it.The concept of the movie doesn't sound like anything solid but it's well written and the story is well brought to the screen by Peter Svatek, who does it with style, unlike some of his other less talented business colleagues operating in the same genre. The story and monsters of the movie are all quite enjoyable. And all this due to Dutch incest! Crazy! Somehow I have the feeling that this little story element was Rutger Hauer's input.The movie is really not that bad, at least not halve as bad as the current rating here would suggest. The rating here suggest that this movie is an horrible fake looking Z-movie, like they used to make in the '50's. I mean I've seen worser genre movies than this, also with a significantly higher budget. This movie still has some entertainment value and is not completely unwatchable and even recommendable to the fans of B-horror movies and Rutger Hauer.It is the uncrowned king of the B-movies, Rutger Hauer, that puts down the most interesting character and his acting is like 5 times better than any of the other actors in the movie. The story of his life. But once you really start thinking about it, is his role really necessary? He seems to be only in the movie because well, he is Rutger Hauer! The role seems to be specifically written purely for him. But who is complaining about it really.Obviously just watchable for genre fans only.4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

First off all, the story line was horrible, but, because it was made on the island that I live on, and my mom and my aunt were in it, I like it a little more, and have sympathy for it. It has some pretty famous actors in it, and it might have been OKAY if it had a better story line. I mean come on, a girl that could have sex with herself?! thats a little weird. Some of the actors were a little ... odd, but others were pretty good, and pretty famous, and it makes me happy to know that it was filmed where I live. It was kind of odd at one part, when they had a war scene, and this girl got killed with a fork, but it rocked my world. Anyways, the movie makes for a good laugh, so, I think that you should watch it because low quality films rock, and this is CERTAINLY low quality.

How many movies out there scream "Cheesy," huh? Just looking at those reviews about how fake and how bad this whole movie is makes me want to see this for myself! "Bleeders" is such a notable example of a really bad, really horrible, yet good in the terms of "entertaining, because everything reminds me of 'Manos: The Hands of Fate' and 'Future War'" kind of thing! I also love how, despite the age of this movie, it went straight underground to the point that this movie is long forgotten! If "Mystery Science Theater 3000" were ever to come back, then this is a great film to show on that show! Until then, this is a true 10 star movie and very much so! "Bleeders" - it'll make you "not" go to bed for the rest of your life! Spooky!