Aaron's Blood

The plot and idea is decent, a mixture of modern realism and vampire lore. The execution is dull. The music evokes tension for the seriousness of a father trying to save his son. But the pacing and acting intensity get to about a 4 out of 10. Tepid. Dull.

I'll say this for Aarons Blood, I've never seen anything like it. It's a very original film and took me by surprise.

It tells the story of a father and his efforts to reverse the vamperic virus that has infested his son. Can he save his boy before he becomes a full fledged blood sucker? Though the concept is interesting the movie is badly flawed in places. The cast are awful and incompetent, the direction is hit and miss and the ending is really quite weak.

I appreciate what the Aarons Blood creators were going for, I think they just made too many bad decisions along the way and the end result is a just passable effort.

The Good:

Very original

The Bad:

Poor cast

Bad finale

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Reason 543478934 why I should never be a father, I'd have staked him

When the hemophilic twelve year-old Tate (Trevor Stovall) is bullied at school, he breaks his nose and is sent to the hospital with internal hemorrhage. His father Aaron (James Martinez), who raises Tate alone since his mother died, is desperate since his son needed a transfusion. Despite his lack of faith, Aaron seeks out Father Kane (David Castellvi) that stays at the hospital chapel and they go to Tate's room where Father Kane prays for the boy. During the night, Tate recovers and improves his vision and senses. Further, he has no appetite and becomes sensitive to the sun. Soon Aaron learns that his son turned into a vampire and seeks for help to f ind the blood donor and to save Tate from his fate. Will he succeed?

"Aaron's Blood" is a decent and original low-budget vampire movie by the unknown Tommy Stovall. The story is indeed a father and son drama and fans of gore and horror will certainly be disappointed. The acting of the Latino cast is reasonable and the screenplay is not bad considering the budget, keeping the tension but with a quite disappointing conclusion. The use of nightmares to keep the tension is repetitive, but in general the film works on video. My vote is six.

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The story revolves around the dad and what he would do to save his son. Though, for the life of me I don't understand why they think it's a curse instead of a blessing. They could of made it more of a father and son coping with him becoming a vampire and what length the dad would go to protect his son. Instead, we get a crappy ending.

Worried about his sons' condition, a series of accidents after his release from a hospital visit causes his father to slowly come to the realization that he has become a vicious bloodsucking vampire and sets out to find the one responsible for turning him before his bloodlust takes over.

This here wasn't all that bad of a low-budget vampire effort. One of the more enjoyable elements of this one is the fact that it builds a rather fine atmosphere about the sons' eventual change. From the beginning, when we have the early scenes of the kid being picked on and the abuse he suffers to the sudden and drastic changes the follow his release, cause the film a rather dramatic energy that is quite enjoyable at times. That is brought up nicely with the scenes of him out in the school attempting his new powers or the explosive sequence of the full reveal about what he has become which manages to really enhance this one greatly as the resulting brawl and action gives this some nice bits to really move this along nicely. The scenes of him now fully enjoying his powers and the quest to stop it are rather nicely handled as well, keeping this one moving along somewhat nicely enough with the encounter with the bully and the ravenous attack on the chained-up policemen which is quite nice for the inclusion of some frantic action within this one. With the finale rushing into some nice action as it explains the action and a potential cure for the affliction, this one manages to generate some rather fine work into putting the cure forward which gives this a nice finale. These here manage to hold this up enough over it's few minor issues. The film's main problem is the same central issue so commonly found in these types of stories in that it's way too downbeat about the events at hand. The central scene where it's plainly revealed what he is and what dangers he poses are handled with an incredibly underdeveloped air, making the shocking scenes go by without any kind of emotional resonance at all which severely undercuts its dangerous feeling. As well, the fact that it's so early into the running time that it just jumps out of the story without any kind of impact which really does this no favors by letting the big payoff come out of nowhere in a rather short amount of time and that all makes its big scene rather problematic. Likewise, the film does cause the investigation into the guilty party responsible for it all to drag out so slowly that it really doesn't make much of an impact here since it's basically just dead ends being brought about by the sudden inclusion of the vampire priest which is rather oddly handled from the sake of essentially being brought up simply so that something makes sense if the film wants to go with a twist for his creation. The other big issue here is the aforementioned changes to accepted vampire lore which manages to really make this feel cheap rather than original as they attempt to be different. That is a big factor here, as these manage to be the issues that hold it back.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.