"Summers Blood" starts out not too bad... I liked the overall look and the acting, yet there was some technical downsides on the bad dubbing and the editing became atrocious in the end with tons of senseless dissolves. What at first looks like a slow movie with a hidden secret turns into a mess of its own. The movie opens up with a hitchhiking girl ending up captured in a strange family after a pretty unconvincing one night stand. Her psycho lover keeps her in his "garden" in the basement along with another girl who just sits and babbles and then dies.
You wonder about what that garden is supposed to mean, why the mother is acting strange while it plays a fake love story between the girl and her capturer who has a soft spot for her. As soon as the drop that the guys dad is out and coming home and the girl tells her story about how she came to town looking for her father you know everything thats coming up.
And thats the funny thing about the movie... everything that is mysterious is dropped on the sidelines while everything else is predictable about one third in the movie. It all ends up random like they made the plot up on the fly while filming it culminating in one of the most ridiculous movie endings ever. I thought my DVD was broken and skipped a few minutes to the credits but the movie really just end. Stay away from this farce. There is no depth in the characters, their actions are not explained and for a horror movie this one seriously lacks either atmosphere or gore and can't make up for it with the lame incest story and "evil knife loving daddy".
You wonder about what that garden is supposed to mean, why the mother is acting strange while it plays a fake love story between the girl and her capturer who has a soft spot for her. As soon as the drop that the guys dad is out and coming home and the girl tells her story about how she came to town looking for her father you know everything thats coming up.
And thats the funny thing about the movie... everything that is mysterious is dropped on the sidelines while everything else is predictable about one third in the movie. It all ends up random like they made the plot up on the fly while filming it culminating in one of the most ridiculous movie endings ever. I thought my DVD was broken and skipped a few minutes to the credits but the movie really just end. Stay away from this farce. There is no depth in the characters, their actions are not explained and for a horror movie this one seriously lacks either atmosphere or gore and can't make up for it with the lame incest story and "evil knife loving daddy".