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Simply Perfect

Good concept, poorly executed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Like Lurking Fear, Bleeders is also inspired by Lovecraft's short story The Lurking Fear. Basic premise is taken from Lovecraft, but plot is completely different than both previous movie and original story. Although, this time it's pretty solid. Screenplay I liked a lot, movie not so much. I have no specific objections, it's simply that overall impression is white-livered. Decent entertainment for genre fans.5/10

John Strauss (Roy Dupuis) and his wife Kathleen (Kristin Lehman) journey to a secluded island in search of a long lost heirloom. Sent away to Europe as a baby John had a trust fund which helped raise him, but was never able to discover the origin of the money or his own past for that matter. Finally he and his wife manage to connect the dots to the island, but no one on it recognises the name Strauss. Inflicted with a deadly affliction John is dying and his only hope is to discover the secrets of his past. One of the few on the island who is willing to help him is Dr. Marlowe (played by Rutger Hauer).This hauntingly bad piece of filmmaking derides it's origin from some Lovecraftian lore, which truthfully has not had a good history of proper on-screen treatment. "Bleeders" is no exception and although Dupuis and especially Rutger Hauer give the script a half-hearted attempt the overall direction of the movie is tragic. The film lacks pacing, basic storytelling abilities, logic and worst of all - horror. Even the farcical dialogue and jumpy script can be forgiven to some point, if the gore is in the right place and the creepy crawlies manage to inflict some fright. Given the monsters look like half-melted outcasts from "The Muppet Show" there isn't even any tongue and cheek ha-has to let you distance yourself from the sheer badness.In this movie everything seems to be way off and severely amateurish. Were it not for the nudity (including one extremely long sex scene, which is arguably the only watchable sequence in the movie) it could easily pass for a bad TV movie.Rutger Hauer tumbles down into the acting ghetto with this outing. Almost as if he really did die in "The Hitcher" and since than it is only his decomposing corpse is being employed to boost video sales of zombified E-class garbage. Hopefully 2011 will announce his big comeback, when "Hobo with a Shotgun" and than South African directed "Spoon" hit the screens to offer a much deserved homage to the downtrodden Dutch actor.It must be noted however, that a couple of extremely interesting ideas pop out during the wanting experience, that do prove the pointless point that the basic plot actually reeked of promise.

This film first appeared to me via the television and yes, I watched it. Even found a copy of the DVD too. I think one of the reasons was that it really creep ed me out. I mean...REALLY. And it is not like me to be creep ed out but I was eating a sandwich about half-way through the film. That sandwich did not get finished LOL.The plot and idea is a shocker (not unheard of) but if it had been taken to even more nasty levels my god, it would have been one hell of a...*shivers*. But it does have its good points and its bad points, as any film.5/10

First off all, the story line was horrible, but, because it was made on the island that I live on, and my mom and my aunt were in it, I like it a little more, and have sympathy for it. It has some pretty famous actors in it, and it might have been OKAY if it had a better story line. I mean come on, a girl that could have sex with herself?! thats a little weird. Some of the actors were a little ... odd, but others were pretty good, and pretty famous, and it makes me happy to know that it was filmed where I live. It was kind of odd at one part, when they had a war scene, and this girl got killed with a fork, but it rocked my world. Anyways, the movie makes for a good laugh, so, I think that you should watch it because low quality films rock, and this is CERTAINLY low quality.