Bleeders/Hemoglobin (1997)
- written January 2000
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In 1692, the King of Holland outlawed intermarriage and incest and that one act forced the Van Damme family from their country and into a new world. Skip forward 300 years later when John Strauss tries to come home to find his family. He had been skirted off at a young age to Europe to make a good life but now sick and dying he hopes to find the cure to the diseases raging his system. The island is plagued by its own demons as apparently all the coffins have been broken into from underneath, most chalking it up to the cemetery's caretaker from using weak lumber in the coffins. Day by day goes by and life seems to get worse for everyone on the island and Strauss still can’t find any answers. It is then the Dr. Marlowe who helped Strauss out from a seizure gets going on the blood of Strauss and finds the answer: inbreeding. When townspeople start to vanish, the good Doc tries to find some answers and instead finds the monsters: 3 foot high freaks of nature who feast on human blood, and Strauss is their relative. Now the Doc must stop Strauss from turning to his inner desires to kill and save all the people from these creatures. But stopping underground creatures isn’t easy, especially when Strauss does his best to protect him. Will Strauss win out and eat all the townspeople or can the Doc forge a peace
with these unwanted neighbors?
Overall: Weak film that tries its hardest to be serious. Too many films have a similar premise of one guy set to save a town against unknown monsters, its just that there isn’t too many inbreeding films out there. Film can be gory but the creatures look too silly for the film to be scary. It's based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft called "The Lurking Fear" - that story features a Dutch family who slowly disappears from view and an inquisitive explorer finds the truth: inbreeding underground dwellers. Short story is better than the film but overall seems more of something Poe would write about. Comparison: Dead Alive meets Demon Knight |
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