Bleed (2016)

Please don't spend money on this.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

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.

It is kinda all over the place. Also it isn't very entertaining.

BLEED is one of the better indie horrors I've seen recently but that isn't really saying too much. At least this film has something of a proper budget even if it is very low; the film looks quite slick and has a structured narrative which is unusual for this genre. The story is your usual guff about a bunch of ghost hunters exploring an abandoned prison and discovering a malignant spirit therein. There's a heck of a lot of padding involving extraneous characters to wade through, but believe me, it could be (and frequently is) worse.

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

I decided to watch this film driven by the seductive trailer, but much to my surprise I called it quits a little more than halfway through because the movie falls between two stools: it was unable to engage me or at least entertain me. The beginning looked promising but as soon as the other people started arriving at the house, the film lost substance with unfitting and incongruent dialogues which attempted to build up a story that is played out so painfully slow and, worse still, defying the purpose of the film. Namely because there is a distinct lack of horror in much of the first half of the film. Then the unfolding story doesn't hold true. For instance, no loving husband in his right senses would leave his wife in an advanced stage of pregnancy completely on her own at a new house in the middle of nowhere simply because he wants to challenge his brother in-law who fancies going in search of ghosts in an abandoned and derelict former prison that happens to be nearby. In terms of the acting, I think that Chelsey Crisp did try her hardest to defend her credible role. However, that of the remaining disparate cast leaves a lot to be desired, which makes the film even more appalling. If you are looking for a great horror film, do not waste your time and money on this one because it neglects to be an enjoyable good one.