I often wonder how realtors in horror movies sleep at night.
They'll sell a house that has trolls in the basement or zombies in the
back yard or even a history of violent killings within its very walls
and they'll sell it like nothing ever happened. And Triple Star Realty, the folks selling the house in BLOOD
STAINS have plenty to answer for. This time around, Triple Star just
sold a house in a neighborhood jammed to the gills with lunatics,
madmen, small children, psychopaths, and now, lawyers and that most
depraved subspecies of man, children's book authors. Thus, the lawyer and the author will begin sticking their
collective noses into the dark underbelly of their new neighborhood,
and what they find may well kill them.
Granted, it's formulaic. Off the top of my head I can think of
three or four movies almost exactly like this one with just slightly
different characters and circumstances. Murder mystery / suspense
buffs could probably name ten or twenty or more. There's not going to
be a whole lot here that you haven't already seen somewhere else.
Which isn't to say, necessarily, that it's not good. Plenty of solid
plot building goes on in BLOOD STAINS, and a couple of nifty surprises
will pop up here and there.
And yet, at the end of the day, BLOOD STAINS is better suited for
a Lifetime special than it is for the video store shelves. The
constantly philandering husband murdered by a jealous wife who may or
may not have actually done it, and then subdivisions of jealously and
revenge swinging in from all sides...these are all hallmarks of a
growing trend, the chick slasher flick.
Oh, and I'm definitely taking credit for that one. "Chick slasher
flick"...where do I come up with this stuff? But as
self-congratulatory as I'm being about this, it's also pretty apt. It
builds its suspense very slowly, toward an uncertain end. It's laden
with triangles in every direction, troubled pasts crop up and boil off,
and love and jealousy are the primary impetus to the plot. There's not
a whole lot of blood (which is a surprise for a movie called BLOOD
STAINS) and the body count is pretty low. It's really horror lite, a
kind of distilled version that focuses more on building toward a
conclusion than occasionally spiking the narrative with killings. It's an interesting departure, but in all honesty, I find it just plain dull.
The ending, finally, allows every one of the many, many loose ends
this movie spawned to be tied up and laid to rest in a surprisingly
bloodless fashion. In fact, this movie is so bereft of actual ACTION
that less than three of the last eight minutes even really pass for
suspense. The special features include English and Spanish subtitles, and
trailers for SEE NO EVIL, JEKYLL AND HYDE, DARK HARVEST 3: SCARECROW.
All in all, yawn. Genuinely, yawn--BLOOD STAINS is painfully slow, and the payoff doesn't even begin to cover the investment in time and attention paid to reach the end. Worth your time only if you're into the movies Lifetime continually runs.
RATING: ** (out of four)
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