SYNOPSICS
Bloodlines (2007) is a English movie. Stephen Durham,Henry Kingi Jr. has directed this movie. Grace Johnston,Jason Padgett,Tracy Kay,Douglas Tait are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. Bloodlines (2007) is considered one of the best Horror movie in India and around the world.
In the sticks of Kentucky, a demented family of inbreds begin the process of cleaning up their blood line. Their twisted family is led by Billy Bob Hackford, who in his madness abducts unsuspecting young women. As a sadistic sport, the clan forces the girls to fight, gladiator style to the death, to determine the strongest. Billy Bob then rapes the victor in hopes of a pregnancy and expanding the Hackford family. The Hackford's plan changes when they abduct Amber Strickland, a southern tom boy whose family ties run as deep as her abductors. She's not a victim or prey, but a huntress raised in the backwoods of Alabama. Her brothers, Bear and Brody track her down and a feud of country folks erupt into a massacre, with only the strongest to survive.
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Bloodlines (2007) Reviews
Why oh why?
Why do filmmakers still churn out straight to video garbage like this? This film has some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard. It had me cringing and squirming in my seat. The film is about a bunch of inbred rednecks (although out of what seems to be about 50 only 2 of them are horribly disfigured) who live in a remote house in the woods. With the help of a local gas station owner they lure girls to the house to fight each other to the death, with the 'winner' going on to be raped by the chief inbred. Doesn't sound too bad a story. But the reality is there is no horror in this film. The fight sequences are very tame (too many broken necks and all too easily, probably to save on sfx budget), the rape scenes are non existent. There is one brief shot of nudity on a dead girl who is quickly covered up, so why one of the plot keywords on here is Female Nudity I can only think is up to the film makers to try and get people to watch this load of tripe! One of the captured girls' boyfriend and brother (at least I think that's who they are, they insist on calling her 'baby girl' so they could have been her parents for all I know) realise she is missing and have a good idea where she is so they set off in search for her. They seem to have a 6th sense as they pack a load of hunting gear and even maintain that they're going hunting. She could have been in an accident for gods sake! Needless to say they're soon on the trail armed with bow and arrow and knives. They dispatch the inbreds with ease with, as I mentioned before, several broken necks, a couple of arrow injuries and some knife action. The surviving girls escape through a balsa wood door that somehow managed to keep them locked in a room for the first half of the film and meet up with their rescuers. I must mention here that the dialogue between the girl, her boyfriend and brother is awful. She calls one Teddybear all the time and they call her baby girl. Bleaagh! A chase ensues and we see both rescuers downed and 2 women survivors, all very predictable. Then after all the inbreds are dead the 2 rescuers are suddenly alive, amazing! And they all live happily ever after. Awful. I was so glad when it ended. The only thing that could have possibly saved this load of rubbish was adding more nudity and turning into an exploitation flick complete with inbred rape scenes but the filmmakers didn't and it's dreadful.
Freaky Film
This movie is watchable. I chose to comment after reading the first comment, which I disagree with. CONCEPT: The storyline is: a group of inbreds kidnap, force to fight, rape and eventually kill their captives. Granted "pretty girl's car breaking down in the middle of the woods and being captured" thing has been done a hundred times over. However the girl fight scenes were original and entertaining. I agree that they should have established what Brody, Bear and Ambers relationship was. I assumed it was her brothers. DIALOGUE: The dialog was dreadful. There is no point elaborating on it. The dialog almost seemed as if it was a spoof. "The strength is in the Strickland" ??? Amber said it jokingly but Brody actually tried to sell this $hit of a cornball line! FIGHT SEQUENCES: The "brothers" came to rescue Amber however watching their fight scenes, Amber looked like she was handling herself much better. There is one scene where Bear actually takes a knife out and stabs someone in slow motion from the side! Apparently many of Bears moves seem to be freakishly slow. He also throws and knife through someone's head in slow motion. LMAO! Amber's fighting appeared to be more realistic. However there is one part where she puts her fellow captives aka Billy Bob's sister's, nose through her brain. The effect and make-up really take you out of the moment and into a feeling of WTF. The final fight scene where she hold the knife up over her head for quite sometime was also unrealistic. It was dramatic but annoying. Overall Amber fighting for her life was kinda a turn-on. INBREDS: The mutation of the two relatives was silly since they seemed to be the only two even remotely dis-formed. They shouldn't have been so severe (complete with boils) and some of the cousins should have had at least a fish face. This would have made it a bit more realistic. ACTING: Most of the acting/accents was very sub par. Out of the entire ensemble cast I would only mention two who I thought to be good. Grace Johnston is the one actor who made this movie watchable. She managed to bring whatever reality there was to this film. I've read the reviews and I think this point is unanimous. Not only is she hot but she can act. I look forward to seeing more from her as I am confident we will. Someone else who hasn't been mentioned much in the reviews but I thought did a good job, Jason Padgette. He played Billy Bob. You couldn't help but kinda like this a$$hole. I've read the trivia and perhaps all the chaos is what attributed to the poor casting. Jenny is smoking hot. She looks like she was taken right out of a fitness magazine. However her acting was not there. She kept making the same face over and over again! Her voice was also killing me (not in a good way). She appeared to be in her thirties and an overall annoyance. I was looking forward to her rape (which never happened) as well as her death (she was one of the survivors!). Brody and Bear had no emotion, Shawna was over the top while Dawn and Candy were decent. The mutants just grunted through-out. NUDITY: Not much. I cannot understand why this is considered a "sexy film". I have seen more nudity on prime time TV!.... slightly exaggerated. There are two sets of boobs and a bra and underwear scene. The lingerie scene was courtesy of Jenny. Though smoking hot she kinda took me out of the film. I mean she looks like she could kick EVERYONE'S a$$, including Amber. China (WWF) has nothing on Jenny! I kept waiting for Amber to get naked or at least down to her panties..... don't bother guys, this never happens. You'll have to be content with the mid-drift. During one fight scene her shirt slightly rides up and she kills another girl between her legs. For me that was the highlight of the film. MAKE-UP: Way too done up. No matter what they've been through or how many people they fight, the hair and make-up stay intact. The inbreds make-up was also unbelievable. Were they wearing masks?! OVERALL: With all it's flaws this movie is watchable and entertaining. It isn't any worse or better than any other run-of-the-mill horror. I was surprised that this didn't go to theaters since I preferred it to Hills Have Eyes 2.
Rednecks & Mutants
Wow this was actually a pretty good movie. It's like Hills Have Eyes a little bit. It's got 2 mutants in it, one looks similar to Pluto. He's got a beard though and long gray hair. Lot's of good fight scenes, and crazy moments. It was fairly bloody too. The rednecks were hilarious too. I liked everything, except the ending, I thought that could have been a little bit better. Still though this is one of the better low budget movies I've seen this year. Defiantly check this out if you liked Hills Have Eyes remake. I also recommend Detour, Hillside Cannibals, and Wrong Turn 1-2. All of those are a lot of fun to watch too. Bloodlines gets a bloody good 8.5/10
Moronic
Why is it that ninety percent of the of the movies I've watched from THINKfilm have been so silly and so dumb? Pretty ironic, don't you THINK? Bloodlines is no exception. First of all, it slanders southerners much like the recent Horrorfest III crap-fest, From Within. However unlike that bilge this is so un-serious that it only provides passing annoyance. This was supposed to take place in Kentucky, so what was with the Confederate battle flags on the gas station wall and the dope with the rebel hat? Last time I checked, Kentucky wasn't part of the Confederacy. They were neutral in the war between the states like a bunch of Kentucky fried chickens! Where did they dig up that woman in the skull shirt? She was off the charts obnoxious. Every time she opened her nasty mouth I got sick. It makes me wish the director could have arranged for Vince, the Sham-Wow guy to show up and slap her in the chops like he did that Miami prostitute. I would've immediately upgraded this to ten stars! Finally, how unrealistic were the scenes of women being forced to fight to the death in that dirt patch? Didn't the filmmakers know that the proper way to force a lady to fight another lady to the death is to make them do it in their underwear on a well oiled tarp or in a kiddie pool. Doesn't everyone know that? THINK next time, boys!
The missing Wrong Turn script?
In the intro a woman is held against her will. We learn what sinister plans some old woman has for her. This woman is holding a baby in her arms, his name...Billy Bob. Years later a country girl named Amber is leaving for college. She stops at a gas station...where, wouldn't you know it, the old redneck attendant scares her and says creepy things. Soon her car breaks down and she's "taken." When she wakes up she's in a room with two other girls. They try to escape but a bunch of violent deformed inbreds guarding the place grab them. In charge of it all is...Billy Bob, now an adult. He spends his time having sex with his sister, who's eager to give him a child! But he finds that idea disgusting even though it is mating season for Billy Bob and what he does with the captive girls have them fight each other to the death. The winner will get to bear his child. In the meantime, Amber's two skinny brothers who think of themselves as Rambos are out to find her since they haven't heard from her in days. They track down the house where she is and they and the girls will have to confront the extended family of inbreds. Not sure why IMDb keep this movie "hidden" as you cannot find it looking by title. As you can tell this movie is very much in the spirit of Wrong Turn, some of the inbreds even look similar. It's a lower budget movie so acting and direction aren't exactly up to par but nevertheless it's an entertaining movie that focuses more on the creepiness of inbreeding than on violence and gore although there's some of that, too. It seemed that this movie would give us an even creepier twist at the end with Amber and her family, but unfortunately it doesn't go that route. Compared with most horror movies released these days which are just awful, this is a campy fun one.