Blood Relic

There isn't really a whole lot one can do in making a horror movie that doesn't at least remind you of another horror movie you've seen. In that respect, Blood Relic is no different.

There's not enough time spent showing how all these folks who know each other actually know each other, or why those who DON'T know the others are there in the first place.

Some films talk too long about integral parts of the movie, but Blood Relic just slaps the main inanimate character in, expects you to believe it, and then tries half heartedly about halfway through to explain where it came from.

A few gratuitous partial nudity shots for no apparent reason, some excess blood from small wounds and not enough from large ones, and a few other shortcomings detracted from the whole movie.

My main complaint is that the characters aren't explained or developed at all. After each character's fatal meeting with the bad guy(s), you're generally left thinking "Awww, and I hardly even knew that one, either." I had no problem with the movie though. As someone who takes every opportunity available to watch what others routinely refer to as 'bad' movies, I'd give it a five (or even better) because it had a little of the horror, blood, screeching, running around senselessly, etc. that I've come to love in my movie fare.

And another feature to this flick... Do you simply LOVE a freaky ending? I like unexpected twists, as long as they're plausible. The ending of Blood Relic is...

Something you'll just have to see for yourself!

This movie is awful. It pained me to watch it. Every actor, director, producer and anyone with even the smallest role in any aspect of this film should be barred from the genre indefinitely.

This film is so bad there aren't strong enough words in the English language apt to describe. I'll just spit on the ground instead.

Your movie is awful and you should feel bad. Scrappy Doo is a better experience. I would rather rip my arm off and f@@@ myself with my dead limb than get anywhere near it again. I would rather eat glass than see any of these actors ever again. I would rather jump in a river full of piranna than meet the director.

Blood Relic (2005) is another in a long line of terrible straight-to-video movies. Some are fun but most of them are dreadful and unwatchable. This is one of those that need to be not seen and never heard from. The only reason that I didn't give this movie a straight zero was that low budget movie queen Debbie Rochon was in the picture and she was hot to look at. Other than that I wouldn't give it the time of day. Billy Drago looks like he drank all of his money. He could barely stand up and all he did was mumble his badly written dialog. He tries to come off like Udo Kier. But Udo's cool and he can still deliver a performance. Billy Drago was just too painful to watch. A bad movie all around that doesn't warrant a further look.

Stay away, not recommended.

A cast of mostly anonymous teenagers hired to clean a aerospace museum experience bloody mayhem after one of them finds an occult talisman. This film is strongly adequate in most categories. The photography is professional. The direction is reasonably assured. The cast isn't too embarrassing, and generally all of the girls show some flesh. The aerospace museum location adds production value even though most of the mayhem happens in a more generic warehouse. The gore is adequate – though the make-up generally plays out in the aftermath of the attacks rather than in the violence itself. So what's the problem? It's just tired. Young, good-looking people being killed off one-by-one by a masked assailant. Been there, seen that. I needed an extra hook, and there wasn't one. The potential of an interesting "monster" was wasted. The talisman is a wasted device. It seems turns the wearer into a homicidal maniac. The characters are always simply running from the unknown human carrier than battling the demonic entity pulling the strings. It would have been more interesting if the filmmakers had taken the time to develop force behind talisman better, and let the characters try to figure a way to take it on directly. Not terrible, when you consider the low standards of the genre, but there are better films out there.

Working at a local military museum, the workers restoring the exhibits find that a sacred amulet found there releases a murderous spirit on the base and is being forced to kill due to the homicidal influence of the relic, forcing them to find a way out of the museum while stopping the killer's rampage.

This here wasn't that bad of a slasher. One of the things it does right is getting a good setting for this of an airplane museum, which is pretty creative and allows for some great scenes within such a location. The scenes after the party, mainly the ones of the survivors wandering through the darkened hallways, trying logical plan after logical plan to get out, provide some great suspense as they go about their plan of action without alerting the killer, and trying to accomplish all this really great sneaking around in such creepy locations are really good. Due to the blackout in the area bringing up the cramped and confined office spaces and crew quarters within the long hallways while moving out into the main hall of the museum which has them interacting alongside the full-scale plane props during this set-up, the atmosphere here is highly enjoyable while generating plenty of fine suspense along the way. The killer in here has one of the greatest designs ever, as the large jumpsuit, pilot's helmet, and mask make for a great look for a killer, and this one pulls it off nicely which compliments the suspense quite well. There's some great nudity in here, which is greatly appreciated and surprising for this film, not only including a strip-poker sequence that has enough flesh since everyone strips off, but there's a couple of great sex scenes and the fun sequence where one woman is forced to strip for her boyfriend wearing a pilot's outfit until it's revealed that it was a gag, but it's a suspenseful one before that nonetheless and is all a part of the fun had with the nudity. The last big plus here is the fun and ingenious twist provided at the end that turns around the identity of the killer really nicely and comes about as a fun and surprising scene. Along with the blood and gore in here, these here are the film's good points as this here only has a few flaws to it. One of the biggest problems here is the fact that the purpose of the talisman relic indulging in the power to the others is never explained. It's simply told what it is, what it looks like and what happens, but never why and there's a serious void in here due to that, especially since there are two people who had been exposed to the powers who had told of their experiences, yet nothing is said why they were under the influence. Another flaw is that the majority of the film's kills are incredibly lame in execution, either doing it off-screen to be found later or just being the single most bloodless type of kill around which really leaves them pretty lackluster for the most part. The last flaw in here is the lame séance scene, which offers nothing of value, seems stuck in for no reason other than a lame jump-gag or a predictable supernatural twist, and could be done away with easily. These here are the film's flaws that hold it back.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and a couple mild sex scenes.