Get ready for an 80s-style slasher with a mask-wearing murderer who kills with a viciousness like no other. This is Blood Gorge!
6 friends decide to find solitude outside of Detroit for Halloween, but they soon find themselves trapped in a nightmare they can’t awake from. Hunted by a masked killer through cemeteries, corn mazes and haunted houses, they are picked off one by one. Who is this insaniac?
Blood Gorge, IMDB
Right from the beginning, the RFN Pictures logo appears while that quintessential spooky ghost sound plays in the background. You’re immediately transported to Halloween. If that wasn’t enough, a landscape of Halloween nostalgia sets the scene while the opening credits play. Honestly, Blood Gorge could’ve stopped right there and I still would’ve given it a 10/10. It’s not enough to tell me it’s Halloween — you need to set the scene and show it. This whole sequence gave me the perfect mindset for the awesomeness that was about to happen.
As the synopsis states, Blood Gorge centers around a group of friends planning some Halloween shenanigans with movies, substances, a Ouija board, and a trip through the cemetery into the woods. Sounds like my kind of party (well, without the substances for me, at least). Scene-by-scene we see the friends having the time of their lives, joking around with each other and having a blast. A masked figure ends their fun early with some of the gnarliest kills out there. Name any weapon — or non-weapon, for a certain video store clerk — and it’ll find its way into someone’s body cavity. Blood Gorge doesn’t skimp out on its namesake.
Of course, you can’t name a movie Blood Gorge without the blood to back it up. There is blood, obviously, but there is also brain matter and vomit and all sorts of prosthetics to show the carnage that the killer is doing. Close-up shots give that extra oompf; shoutout to Kait Brayden for the special makeup FX!
On top of that, Blood Gorge brought back two things I wish more movies did: end credits with everyone’s name and face, and a blooper reel. After watching people getting slaughtered on Halloween night, it’s a fun way to end a movie. Not only does it let me as a viewer know which actor played each character, it releases some pressure from the horrors we just witnessed. Blooper reels are also a fantastic way to remind the audience that Blood Gorge wasn’t just made by some faceless big-time movie studio. There are people — friends — behind the film. They’re having a great time making this movie, probably having just as good of a time as I was watching it. It’s the true essence of Indie horror films, horror fans coming together to make something really cool.
Was Blood Gorge an Oscar-winning piece that changed the filmmaking landscape? No. What it was, though, was a group effort to bring the grit, grime, and gore to modern slashers. Blood Gorge is everything an Indie movie is — big ideas expertly accomplished despite a small budget. It’s a quick whodunit slasher that gets to the point and shows what we all came here to see: the kills. Writer/director Victor Gabriel and the RFN Pictures crew really put their heart into this film, and any horror fan can see that. With an entertaining premise, silly-yet-scary mask, and plenty of the screams, Blood Gorge succeeded my expectations easily.
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