Summer's Blood

Very basic thriller film with the usual psychopath who for this film is a whole family and even the kidnapped girl is not exactly normal. Let's start from the fact that the female protagonist doesn't have the faintest idea of how to act and renders all the emotions very badly and in a horrendous way. The plot is then very trivial and obvious and in addition to this it is even inconsistent and not very credible so not only have they built a trivial and obvious plot but they have not even managed to make it continuous and credible. But despite this, the film is not totally to be thrown away because it manages to create an atmosphere of great tension throughout its duration, but it is a pity that it is the only thing that the film can do.

Ashley Green (who Tweens and lonely middle-aged women know from Twilight and the rest of us don't know of at all) plays Summer, a rebellious teen trying to find the father that she's never met. Shortly ever finding herself in a small backwoods town, she meets up with a guy whom she goes home with. Only to find herself in over her head the next day when she finds herself chained up in the basement.

Aside from Green herself who doesn't appear to have any acting talent whatsoever, the movie isn't all THAT awful. Yea the marketing of it to attempt to capitalize off the success of the Twilight series is crass, tacky & wholly unneeded, but aside from all the BS there lays a somewhat well-thought out film.

(2009) Summer's Blood PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR

Teen, Summer Mathews (Ashely Green) entering into a small town seeking to reunite with the father she had never met, who she is later befriended by someone by Tom Hoxey (Peter Mooney) who helped her out of a jam. This someone she does know very much then intends to keep her in his home, bound and shackled, eventually exposing eventual dysfunctional of his entire family of actors Barbara Niven and Stephen McHattie.

I do not remember too much about this movie which says a lot about how much I liked this film which maybe could be garbage. In most cases if I give it a rating that low it maybe the result of the bad ending.

If you want to know why Ashley Greene never went on to bigger things after "Twilight", this film gives you a pretty good idea. In a film peppered with mediocre performances (apart from Peter Mooney & Steven McHattie), she registers pretty low. It's hard to tell sometimes if an actor is limited by their script, but most of the time you'll find signs of promise by actors even then. It's a shame, because she brought quite a charm to the "Twilight" series that is clearly absent here. This film's strongest attributes are its use of music and cinematography. The story is nothing new either.

How weird it can go, I had never heard of Stephen McHattie before. But a few weeks ago I popped into "pontypool" and now I see him playing again in this flick, and he did well and believable again. But I must say that Ashley Greene best known for the Twilight saga did well too. And by hereby the best is said of this flick. The acting is well but it's all so low on gore or the red stuff. I guess that Lee Demarbre (the director) did better with the black comedy "smash cut" then with this here. It could have been so much messier but sadly, most of the killings are off-screen. I even saw the steady-cam reflecting in a car. Just a flick to watch and unfortunately to forget.