Blood Relic

Everything you desire in an 80's slasher movie is here. And what elevates Blood Relic somewhat, is the unique location used, which certainly beats the cheap storage garage sets many low budget films use today. Also two of my personal favorites, Debbie Rochon, and Billy Drago are involved. Sadly Debbie is not the star, but her scenes are still beneficial to the film. And for my money, Billy Drago can be in the most lousy piece of trash film imaginable, and still deliver an engrossing villainous performance. The kill scenes were solid here, and the ladies shed there clothes often. Ingvordsen has finally got a grasp on what fans of this genre enjoy, after his watchable, yet almost pg level Bog Creatures. In the end this is an above average throwback, with a unique setting, and the required horror goodies.

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.

In 1983, a U. S. Naval pilot shot down in Grenada discovers a human skull on a pole with a small carved talisman on a cord around it. For no good reason, he removes the (not very cool looking) little thingie and puts it around his neck. After he's been rescued, the cursed necklace causes him to go nuts and kill some mechanics. Then he hides the talisman in a storage compartment at the base. He's shipped off to the funny farm for 22 years, and in all that time it never occurs to him to tell anybody about the talisman even though he knows exactly where it's hidden and his story could easily be proved. By the time he's released, it's 2005 and the former Naval station is being converted into a military history tourist attraction. The gang of sarcastic oversexed college twits working on the renovation decide to sneak in after hours to play with a Cryptique spirit board (an unnecessary plot detour). Somebody in a flight suit and helmet starts sneaking around stabbing them to death. As the Navy man, John Christian is excellent in both his "nice" and "evil" scenes, although he doesn't look a day older in the 2005 portion of the film than he did in the 1983 segment. At one point he explains that the only way to destroy the demonic talisman is for the person wearing it to be killed while under its influence. There's no reason why his character would know that. He just does. The main (male) character is such an idiot that he thinks the killer is a character who has been with him throughout the last few murders. He bashes the guy's skull in before he remembers that they'd been together the whole time. Oops. There are some lapses in internal logic, but as teenkill movies go BLOOD RELIC is probably one of the better exercises in stalk-&-slash made around this time. The pacing is perfect, the characters are a little better defined than usual, and the prevailing mood is decently suspenseful. There were even a couple of mild surprise twists that honestly managed to fool me. Scream queen Debbie Rochon comes off a little better than usual as the most cynical member of the group, and she even keeps her clothes on except for quickly flashing one breast. Most of the other actresses play trashy characters who take their shirts off as often as possible, appearing topless so many times in a single night that it borders on the absurd. There are a few brief, gory makeup effects but they're strictly standard stuff. The false scares that turn out to be practical jokes won't fool anyone, but the actual murder scenes are pretty good. It's too bad there isn't an interesting villain or any visual side to the supernatural aspect. Whoever wears the necklace simply freaks out and starts killing people, and that's about all we ever learn about it. The closing credits ruin the scariness by showing unfunny outakes in which the actors crack up laughing. Oh, well.... I guess you can't have everything, huh?

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.

For myself a B-Movie I generally would not watch twice. but I would this one back on. This movie was pretty cheesy, but it was entertaining. The story was OK... not very original... But.. There were no plot holes... Which I believe is probably the most important aspect in telling a story.. (Weather its good or not...)

The acting was OK at best. The woman in this flick are very attractive. (Which was helpful) There was enough nudity and comedy to justify this movie being truly a traditional slasher flick.