Bloomfield

Elaine is nearly eighteen years old when both her parents are killed in a road accident. She is taken to live with her only relative, an aunt with whom she has had no previous contact. Her new home is Hickville, USA, although it is called a town, it has less than a hundred inhabitants.

"Bloomfield" has been likened to "Rosemary's Baby". Whether or not that is a fair comparison, it is extremely confusing with flashbacks and/or dream sequences. Yes, there is an element of horror to it, but it helps if the plot is relatively easy to follow, if indeed there is a plot. Seriously, this could have been much better, but it fails whichever way you look at it.

I love horror and suspense movies. But lately I haven't seen one where it has kept my attention. This story kept me watching and trying to figure out where it was going with the story. I loved it! Aunt Tilda was creepy but that was the point.....there was something not quite right! The story worked! I read this was the first film directed by this director and she wrote it as well. She also was the main actress! Wow! Can't wait to see where she goes from here!

Being a fan of indie horror it's always fun watching someone fresh bring their vision to you.

Bloomfield does an amazing job slowly unwinding it's tale paying off with top rate suspense.

The acting feels genuine it's easy to get lost in this community of friendly faces without a friend.

Absolutely worthy of the awards director Brianna Young and actress Jennifer Moriarty are picking up at the festivals, the rest of the crew putting out an incredible effort as well, I really look forward to the next films this director and crew put out.

I'll keep this to the point, I watch a LOT of horror movies, it's one of my favorite genres, and this movie fails rather spectacularly on almost all fronts. The narration is done entirely with an almost comically overdone southern drawl, scenes will just hang on nothing happening for way too long, most of the actors seem like they're reading their lines for the first time there on set, and no one seems connected to the world around them. Not to mention how noticeable it is when they clearly pulled in random crew members to fill out a scene. The basic idea of the story is also a very generic "small town is secretly a cult", something that can be enjoyable at least, but this is incredibly paint by numbers. It's not even so bad it's funny, it's just frustratingly boring.

Without ever having heard anything about this 2020 horror movie titled "Bloomfield" from writer and director Brianna Young, then I had the opportunity to sit down and watch it.

Now, I must say that when a movie is written, directed and starring one and the same person, then chances are that you will be in for a lousy movie experience. Sad to say, but the track record just has that tendency. So I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to "Bloomfield" when I saw that this was one of those movies with the writer, director and star being the same person.

Still, giving "Bloomfield" the benefit of the doubt, I sat down to watch it. And boy was that a mistake on my part. "Bloomfield" is insanely slow paced, monotonous and actually downright pointless and boring.

I found no entertainment in the storyline simply because it took forever in the narrative to go nowhere. So yeah, there was just nothing to enjoy here. And it didn't really help much that the character gallery in the movie was about as interesting as something constructed in a kindergarten arts and crafts class.

As for "Bloomfield" being a horror movie, well that definitely depends on how abstract your definition of the word horror goes.

I am rating "Bloomfield" a generous two out of ten stars.