Blood Star recently had its premiere at this year’s Grimmfest and I was lucky enough to catch a screener.
Opening on a dark desert open road, a beaten, bruised, distressed woman is pleading for her life as she is slowly pursued by a vehicle that has her caught in its blinding headlights. As we expect, it doesn’t end well for the woman.
We then meet our soon-to-be victim, Bobbe, a petty thief on a long cross-country road trip through New Mexico and running low on supplies.
We know straight off the bat that she isn’t very good at making decisions as she’s travelling back to her abusive boyfriend who has promised that this is the last time he will abuse her. We get the idea that this isn’t the first time she has forgiven his abusive violence either.
On the vast open road, surrounded by miles of nothingness, she is unlucky enough to run into the path of a small-town sheriff who takes the abuse of power to a whole new level and he is about to make her life a living hell.
She is then through the desert by the psychotic sheriff who knows his killing grounds all too well. She must stay one step ahead and beat him at his own game if she is to survive. When push comes to shove, it’s either hunt or get hunted.
Blood Star is a great genre effort and offers imaginative kills and gore. At times, it impresses with its raw violence and takes heavy inspiration from the horror classic The Hitcher. It then branches off in a more interesting final act, giving it its own horror flare and one hell of a body count!
Blood Star had its UK Premiere at Grimmfest on 6th October. It is now available on Digital Download
Starring: Britni Camacho, John Schwab, Sydney Brumfield, Travis Lincoln Cox, Felix Merback, Wyomi Reed
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