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Sun, Jan 01, 2006
Bloodline
The Movie
Given the generally dismal quality of Lions Gate's direct-to-video horror films, one could be forgiven for intentionally bypassing a title like Bloodline. Perhaps I'm only rating this flick in comparison to most of its LG brethren, but it's actually not half bad!
The story opens with a sequence you've seen 1,000 times before: a campground massacre from which only two brothers escape. OK, so far, so familiar.
The deformed, mute, and mildly retarded brother (Henry) disappears into the woods, while the "normal" brother (Travis) gets to return home and deal with all the "survivor guilt." Obviously we (the audience) are meant to assume that Henry did the killin' and Travis was the hero. But then that supposition gets flip-flopped, and reversed again -- and before you know it, you're actually caught up in this dinky little no-budget horror flick.
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Bloodline