Robert Czikall

If you took the movies "Let me In" and "The Evil Dead" put them together you would have "Blood". I was pleasantly entertained by this movie. Though as the mother gets more and more desperate to save her son it does get somewhat far fetched it still delivers a ton of suspense and very good make up, effects and solid acting. The ending leaves you using your imagination as to what the "Tree' was really all about.. was it a curse or a disease that brought on the sickness. Though this was NOT a Werewolf movie it easily could have been. IMO this was more realistic than most Werewolf movies. What do wild animals do? They hunt and kill and eat. All in all I really liked this movie and hope maybe they have a part 2 to go "deeper" into that Tree's past or at least the area where the Tree was burned down.

I think the movie had potential and kept me entertained for the most part but there were some things that kept me shaking my head. The punishments were not very creative. In a game like this were the moderator has unlimited amount of dollars to spend I felt electrical shocks and drowning were pretty basic punishments and not very exciting. I did like the idea of having ones teeth pulled out and felt that should have been reserved for Amy as right from the beginning she made you hate her and you wanted to see her get the worst of all the punishments. Disappointed she went by drowning. I also don't think one would die right away from an explosive to the hand. Maybe shock but not death. It was easy to know who was going to get it throughout the movie and who would be left. I knew that from the start. The only alternate ending would have been they somehow turn the tables on the moderator and his minions and make them play the game which would have been interesting but Iris' brothers suicide at the end was sort of an "in your face" from fate and now Iris is a murderer. Will she turn the moderator in to the authorities? The personalities were trying way too hard to make you like them or hate them and I thought it was dumb with all the "white knighting" going on from the Men in the room. In a life or death game like this and living in a time where Women want "equality" why the need for chivalry? The only lesson I learned from this Movie was simple..never trust a Woman.

The first half of this movie was pretty realistic but when the main actress decides to go on her revenge spree that is when it all falls apart. For example, how she is able to move and lift the Men's bodies and design these horrific torture traps all while clubbing each one of the Men in the head to knock them out for an exact amount of time to accomplish these tasks was absurd. No average Woman would have the strength to lift and move these Men around the way she did let alone have the intelligence to come up with such dastardly torture methods that she did in the movie and at that point the film lost all sense of realism which is disappointing because this movie could have been much better if only made more realistic. I found myself enjoying the first half and actually looking forward to the victim getting her revenge but unfortunately she lost me when she decided to kill a mentally retarded person and a Man who was a father and husband and then found myself rooting for the assaulters. This was a very poorly written and unbelievable script which had some potential but there were way too many unbelievable scenes in the movie which left you scratching your head and thinking "oh come on" "how can she possibly do that?" The acting was pretty good as well as visuals but that's about it.

This movie was not bad and the acting was pretty good as well. I think what made this movie somewhat effective was the fact that you never really never got to see the the Manson Girls and there was no dialogue with the killers. If there was actually any conversation between the killers and the victims I guess only the remaining survivors of the Manson family that was involved in that horrific night would know. But sometimes what you don't see can be more frightening than what you do see. Wasn't the greatest take on this subject as I feel there was a lot of made up dialogue and the events did not seem to be 100% factual as to what really happened. But, that being said, it does give you an idea as to what the victims must have gone through and how terrified they must have been. Not showing the Sharon Tate slaying was a good idea as I can only imaging that would have been even too graphic to be put on film yet it still was very effective.

Not a bad movie but some very important scenes were extremely unrealistic namely the ending. Such as she gets knocked out in one punch to the face by the killer in the start yet is able to take a series of brutal hits in the face without even budging and becomes a literal "rambo" in the end. Good scenery and great idea but could have been a bit more brutal not to mention a more intelligent killer. Difficult to feel sorry for her as she was a total B in the beginning.