Aaron's Blood

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

Original,entertaining and well produced movie combining the high school social scene with a struggling single father and vampires in suburban America. Eddie's Father meets the Twilight crew. Barely qualifies as a Horror film, the greatest audience fear comes from the bullying, school boys. But it does have enough gore that it's not an ABC Family film- close though. I only FF once when I just wanted to see the end which was a simplistic duality- either A or B.

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.

Why did that poor priest involve himself with that short, annoying kid?

I just wanted to yell at the screen. I felt so bad for the poor priest. And if he has lived for a while, how did he not know the dad was going to be a superstitious, mean unappreciative knucklehead?

He should have realized what was up, and destroyed both the father, and son, and erased his mistake. I would have.

Why did he turn that kid?

I have seen many films where vampires have different personalities. Some good, so0me bad. Twilight is an excellent example of a story where vampires range from kind, like the Cullents, to monstrous like Voluturi, but it still manages to be fun.

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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