I am pleased to announce my participation in Final Girl's Film Club! I have been reading Stacie's blog for a while now, and have posted a comment or two over there. When I read that she wanted to start a film club, I got pretty excited since it was her blog that inspired my own.Stacie picked out the movie Bloody Murder (1999) as the one to start things off with. At first I thought Bloody Murder might be a Friday The 13th rip off, a man in a hockey mask, a summer camp, a creepy old man giving warnings, and a legend about a killer that lives in the woods. I don't know if we ever see the local killer, Trevor Moorhouse, or not. They talk about him a lot, but it turns out he isn't the killer for our story. All we know is that someone is killing off the counselors that are trying to set up the camp before the kids get there.
The effects for Bloody Murder were terrible. Considering all the killings that take place, we get very little blood. A couple of the counselor's get arrows through them, one gets his throat cut and so on. The throat getting cut was probably the worst effect I have seen in a movie so far. All we get is a red line across the throat. No blood is flowing from the wound, even though it is supposed to be deep enough to keep him from calling out loud enough to be heard. At one point there appears to be two cuts. To finish him off the killer uses one of those claw things, that is a gardening tool. He plunges this thing into the counselor's back, and now we have a dead counselor. The problem with this scene is that it is very obvious the claw tool never goes through the shirt, much less skin.
I didn't really get the police in this movie. They bring one guy in for questioning. But when another counselor disappears, they simply bring him back and then let him go. They arrest another guy, thinking he is doing the killing. Once it is discovered that he isn't the killer, the police come back out to catch the real killer, and bring this guy with them. I would think they would leave him back at the station, in order to keep him out of danger, at least I would have.
Was it just me or did it take them a long time to walk from place to place? Just a walk down to the lake seemed like an all day trek to me. As you can see, I don't have a whole lot of good things to say about Bloody Murder. The plot could be confusing at times, the effects were poor at best, and the acting wasn't much better. Even so, I had fun being part of the film club, and I'm looking forward to the next movie that Stacie picks out for us.
2 out of 5 Dead Counselors
3 comments:
Was it just me or did it take them a long time to walk from place to place? Just a walk down to the lake seemed like an all day treck to me.
No kidding! Especially near the end when Julie was trying to get to the lake to save her dad. What, was the lake in a totally different state than the rest of the camp?!
"Meet you down at the lake!" which apparently is through 10 miles of woods.
I love the sweatshirt almost-mutilation with the garden implement! So, so bad.
I'll try to redeem the film club with teh next choice!! Although, I must admit, I've seen far, far worse movies than this one...
I checked my list of dvd movies, and I have Bloody Murder 2 (2002) but not this one. But I think after reading your review Miss Heather, it will not make it into my collection, lol. I can tell from the way I have BM2 coded that I taped it off of cable. I will not even waste my time digging throught the cheap bin at Wally-World or on websites looking for this one.
It sounds to me from your descriptions, that the effects were downright pitifull in this flick. If I cut your throat deep enough to sever your vocal cords, trust me, I would have to hit the carotid arteries too. Then the blood would be gushing like mad as the heart pumped it out in major spurts.
And a garden tool to administer the coup de grace, hmmm maybe, but I have my serious doubts too, lol. It sounds like you are talking about a weeder of some sort. You don't say how long the prongs/tines are supposed to be, but going in from the back, first you have to navigate the spine which would prove a major obstruction for sure. Then the prongs have to be long enough once penetration is halted by the spinal cord, to still make contact with some vital organ such as the heart. Since it did not even penetrate the shirt, sounds like a really neat trick too, roflmao.
You know with bullets they have something called kinetic energy, where the projectile enters the body and produces something akin to a shock wave. It is tied to both bullet design and the velocity of the projectile once it actually enters the body. In some instances, the kinetic energy actually causes more damage than the bullet does itself. Hmmm, maybe they have figured out a way to produce a special type of kinetic energy from the tines or a weeder just making contact with the shirt...but somehow I seriously doubt it Miss Heather (shaking my head).
So the effects sound like they are largely insulting in this one too, which is always a major negative for me. I don't require oscar worthy scripts, acting or effects to enjoy a horror movie. But don't insult my intelligence either, at least try to make it seem real world.
Nah, I really don't feel the need to find this one at all. So thank you for the warning Miss Heather. I will treat it like a rattlesnake out in the desert...either give it lots or room or just shoot it and be done with it, lol.
Yeah I know I talk about being a fairly decent shot, but where "Mr. No Shoulders" (lol, snakes) are concerned, I treat them with special rounds - at least when possible, lol. I load up special snake loads, that have small shotgun pellets inside a plastic container, which replaced the metal bullet. So the round functions like a minature shotgun shell in a handgun, and is serious medicine for Mr. No Shoulders, especially up close. Have I ever had to shot one with a normal metal bullet to kill it - yep, but it was just a waste of rounds really, because I wanted to be sure, lol. A couple of my snake loads in the head, and there is no doubt at all (grinning).
With my hearing being so pitiful from too many years of shooting, they normally are up close when I realize they are around anyway, lmao. It is not that I am just a total sick puppy really, but I have had the "good fortune" to have been bitten by poisonous snakes before. It is just not something I ever feel the need to repeat if I can avoid it.
Oops probably much more than you needed or even wanted to know about western diamondbacks too, lmao, sorry sweet lady.
But thanks again for the warning on this one Heather. You do have me curious, so maybe sometime I will pull out BM2 and try to figure out if it is actually the sequel or not. But another balanced review for sure (tips my hat).
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