Blood Bound (2007)

Director:

Mason Booker

Writers:

Mason Booker (story)
Jared Stepp (story)
(more)

Genre:

Action | Horror

Plot:

It was called The Fallen. Thousands of years ago, it ruled over the Earth - and drowned mankind in blood...

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Vampire | Neo Noir | Violence | End Of The World

Cast

Alex Szele	...	Alex Murnau
John Hermann	...	Jacob Coleridge / Charles
Toni Martin	...	Xan / Alexandria
Amanda Kuchta	...	Victoria
Mary Morales	...	Claudia (as Mary E. Morales)
Jim Henderson	...	Fr. Cooper
Kevin Swatek	...	Ed
Chris Bell	...	Lance
Brandon DeShazer	...	Hugh
Travis Ruhland	...	Jeremy
Dawn Lawrence	...	Anna Murnau
David R. Hucke	...	The Count
Tom Froehlich	...	Dad
Kelly Kearns	...	Mom
Abigail Laskowski	...	Child
Jared Stepp	...	QuikPump Clerk
Michael C. Riedlinger	...	Sanchez
Jeff Robinson	...	Sgt. Graf
Marshall Dixon	...	Captain Wells
Ashley Simone	...	Connie Morgan
Gary Bettencourt	...	Interrogation Vamp
Jay Briley	...	Bouncer / Vamp Guard #1
Kristen Pierson	...	Rave Clipboard Girl
Caroline Buss	...	Forensic Officer / Rave Bartender
Thyme Ada Bickart	...	Young Victoria
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ron Bettencourt	...	Vamp Guard #3 / Red Robe
Kerry Birmingham	...	SWAT with Coat / Dead SWAT #1
Corey Boardman	...	Vamp Guard #4 / Red Robe
Mason Booker	...	Don / SWAT #6 / Red Robe
Christopher Bowers	...	Red Robe
Robert Burr	...	Dead Sea Captain
Laura Camilli	...	Walk-by Girl
Zachary Conron	...	SWAT #7 / Red Robe
Paul Crowley	...	Dead SWAT #2
Michael Ewert	...	Red Robe
Amanda Grzegorczyk	...	Huge Rack Girl / Flyer Girl
Adam Herbage	...	Dead SWAT #4 (as Adam S.B. Herbage)
Steve Jameson	...	SWAT #5
Greg Loreck	...	Xan Victim in Alley
Maddee Marchese	...	Vamp Seductress
Crystal McClean	...	Dead Girl on Roof
Andrew Parchman	...	Vamp Guard #2
Trisha Ramer	...	Rave Go-Go Dancer #2
Taylor Rick	...	Red Robe
Bryan Sargent	...	Diner Waiter
Paul Setzer	...	Bartender #1
Christian Tomsey	...	Dead SWAT #3

Directed by
Mason Booker

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Kerry Birmingham
Mason Booker		story
Jared Stepp		story
Joel Zawada

Produced by
Mason Booker	....	producer
Laura Brown	....	assistant producer
Walter Von Schmidt	....	executive producer
Joel Zawada	....	assistant producer

Original Music by
John Shryock		(original score)

Cinematography by
Jared Stepp		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Mason Booker

Production Design by
Joel Zawada

Makeup Department
Caroline Buss	....	makeup supervisor
Alex Szele	....	assistant makeup artist

Art Department
Jay Briley	....	lead carpenter
Alex Szele	....	assistant carpenter
Joel Zawada	....	assistant carpenter

Sound Department
Phillip Bishop	....	boom operator
Mason Booker	....	additional dialogue recording mixer
Mason Booker	....	boom operator
Mason Booker	....	foley artist
Amanda Grzegorczyk	....	boom operator
John Hermann	....	boom operator
Mary Morales	....	boom operator (as Mary E. Morales)
Jamie Noguchi	....	foley artist
Taylor Rick	....	boom operator
Bryan Sargent	....	boom operator
John Shryock	....	additional dialogue adr editor
John Shryock	....	foley artist
John Shryock	....	post-production sound designer
John Shryock	....	sound editor
John Shryock	....	sound effects editor
John Shryock	....	sound re-recording mixer
Christian Tomsey	....	boom operator
Joel Zawada	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Caroline Buss	....	special effects makeup

Visual Effects by
Jamie Noguchi	....	digital effects

Stunts
Christopher Bowers	....	fight choreographer

Camera and Electrical Department
Phillip Bishop	....	grip
Mason Booker	....	camera operator
Paul Eng	....	grip
Amanda Grzegorczyk	....	grip
John Hermann	....	grip
Mary Morales	....	grip (as Mary E. Morales)
Taylor Rick	....	camera operator
Taylor Rick	....	grip
Bryan Sargent	....	key grip
Stev Sokolovic	....	camera operator
Jared Stepp	....	camera operator
Jared Stepp	....	lighting director
Christian Tomsey	....	best boy
Joel Zawada	....	camera operator

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kathleen Waterhouse-Sibicki	....	wardrobe

Music Department
Mason Booker	....	assistant musical director
DJ Hardwood Floorz	....	special music collaborator
Mary Morales	....	additional score (as Mary E. Morales)
John Shryock	....	music editor
John Shryock	....	music recordist
John Shryock	....	musical director

Other crew
Mary Carol Arazan	....	additional photographs courtesy of
Mason Booker	....	craft service
Jim Burlington	....	technical advisor
Amanda Grzegorczyk	....	script supervisor
Jim Henderson	....	craft service
Kristen Pierson	....	craft service
Jared Stepp	....	craft service
Christian Tomsey	....	production stills/footage
Kathleen Waterhouse-Sibicki	....	craft service

Thanks
Laura Arazan	....	special thanks
Mary Carol Arazan	....	special thanks
Mike Arazan	....	special thanks
Elizabeth Bickhart	....	special thanks
Shena Blomgren	....	special thanks
Paul Janssen	....	special thanks

Production Companies

• May-Sun Productions

Distributors

• Mill Creek Entertainment (2010) (USA) (DVD)
• Pendulum Pictures (2008) (worldwide) (all media)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

Company:

May-Sun Productions

Trivia:

The obnoxious poster hanging on the door of Claudia and Victoria's dorm room is of co-writer Kerry Birmingham. It was made for crew member Taylor Rick's 27th birthday.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Alex and Cooper walk into the sacristy from the church, Alex's trench coat mysteriously disappears.

Quotes:

Alex Murnau:That's a dirty Sanchez, all right.

Movie Connections:

References Sixteen Candles (1984)

Soundtrack:

The Evil Realist

Another one of those made-for-radio horror videos

A dirt cheap horror boom is ongoing, fueled by an apparently insatiable appetite for crap by a younger demographic. BLOOD BOUND suffers from the leading symptom of these video shoots -dimly lit, murky visuals which might as well be shown on the radio.

Milwaukee-lensed junker credited to one Mason Booker gets off to a wobbly start: the screen card reads "Abanoned Warehouse", lacking even proofreading. A pair of cops Coleridge and Murnau (sounds sort of erudite) have a teaser scene with a sexy gypsy-type lady, cueing the "10 Years Later" card.

Premise is that Coleridge has become a super duper vampire, with acolyte villainess Xan helping him, while Murnau has lost his cop job, wife and most everything, now obsessed with destroying his old partner. If this is too corny, we get an idiotic teammate for Murnau in the form of a priest who's been pursuing vampires with wooden stakes "since Vietnam".

The mumbo-jumbo vampire lore and subplot involving a Russian bloodsucker who's conspiring to animate a demon dating back to Ishtar and Gilgamesh is boring and stupid, especially when you can't see what's going on most of the time. There's a modicum of bare breasts to keep the die hards awake, plus the usual unimaginative gore. Since fans of this garbage hail Herschell Gordon Lewis as their fearless leader, they will be mighty disappointed with this meager effort.

Trick ending is confusing and unsatisfying, merely giving the film an unfinished feel. I can't stand the idiotic humor of most of these latter-day amateur night videos, but this one is so humorless and ultimately pretentious in its attempt to inject "significance" that maybe the tongue-in-cheek approach has its pluses. Acting is terrible.