Director: Ryan Nicholson
Year: 2010
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: Bleeding Lady
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Tasked with driving stars to and from movie sets, a driver taking the cast and crew of a low-budget horror shoot to and from their lodgings discovers his favorite actress is involved and tries to win her over, but when his actions anger and upset the crew takes out his anger in graphic ways.
Review:
Overall, this was quite an intriguing and enjoyable genre effort. Among the films' better features is the strong setup that gives us an intriguing psychological character study on the guy throughout here. Giving this one an incredibly thorough take on his obsession and demented attraction to the genre and the art of movie-making from the very start with the amount of trivia and knowledge about the industry he provides that should send off clues about who he is but doesn't, there's a very strong grip on his character and personality quite earlier on that works quite well here. Even the later scenes of him trying to worm his way into her life, while perhaps done innocently with the attempts to initiate a conversation about her career and the resulting shoot, go even further towards enhancing that factor of the film.
Since this all manages to provide a sense of who he is and what he's all about, the longer the shoot carries on and the more time he spends around her the eventual snap becomes all the more obvious and fun. The fact that he spends as much time talking smack about the film and the history of the girls' work to anyone and everyone on set gives this a perfect point to bring about how his instability eventually leads to the deranged rampage he carries out in the second half where he goes crazy through the cast and crew killing them one-by-one before finally abducting the main group that upset him which results in a psychotic spree torturing and killing them which is quite over-the-top and features tons of great splattery gore overall. These here give this one a lot to like that holds it up overall.
There isn't much to dislike here with the film. The main drawback is the seemingly bizarre manner in which his antics go unreprimanded for as long as he is as the kind of interaction he provides on a film set would've gotten him kicked off far earlier than what he did. Picking fights with anyone on the set of a film shoot, openly calling the director's work trash and uninspired, or just generally giving off a creeper's vibe is all questionable that would automatically make any crew suspicious of him and there's little he does to fix it so why he lasted as long as he did before the snap is a little questionable. As well, there's the random reveal of the stalker at the end of the film which just seems thrown in for no reason other than to have a hero's redemption sequence when it would be highly suspicious someone who carry out the plan they do at the point it occurs which isn't realistic. Otherwise, there's quite a lot to like with this one.
Overview: ***.5/5
An enjoyable and dark genre effort that manages to hold itself up quite well with the film's minor flaws not being too distracting or detrimental, this one has plenty to like about it for this type of film. Give it a shot if you're into this type of psychopathic rampage type of films or a fan of the creative crew while most others should heed caution.
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