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The film gives you the feeling it is the end of the world, but that was just a frequent overuse of the production company over promoting itself during the opening. We then see a bunch of old Nazi stuff and two bad female actors pretending to sob loudly while dad injects himself in the chest. We them switch to 10 years later and to color film as we poorly build the character of a few college girls, who eventually drive into the desert, the same desert where our Nazi girls live. If you read the back of the DVD, its says the rest.

The film was low budget and bad. It switches back to black and white for no particular reason. The acting was sad, dialogue poor, and plot not well developed. The zombies were boring.

Guide: F-bomb, grope, brief nudity.

If I said it once, I said it a thousand times. Whenever I dislike a movie, I tend to try and see the positive, and elaborate on what I did like about it. That way my reviews aren't rants. However, every once in a while a movie comes along that I just see nothing in. And unfortunately, Blood Soaked falls into that category.

Hitting DVD and VOD June 17th, Blood Soaked starts off in black and white, and we see young Sadie and Katie holding their dying father and crying. Then it cuts to 10 years later, and the picture gains color. We see a college freshman move into her dorm with help from her complaining mother. Soon after, she meets up with her roommate, and they develop a relationship quickly. While off in the New Mexico desert doing annoying cutesy flirting, the new couple is interrupted by the psychotic sisters we saw ten years ago as children. Now, they're racist Nazi's who have a thing for killing people, and bringing them back from the dead via an injection.

How these two low-grade white trash girls got a hold of something as precious and complicated as a zombie serum, I'll never know. There's a lot about this movie that isn't logical, and will give you a headache thinking too hard on it. It soon becomes a low-budget take on House of a 1000 Corpses, only with out vision or direction. The acting is incredibly weak to top it all of, and all the gore scenes are mostly in black and white, making any bloodshed null and void. The camera angles are wonky, and the steady shots aren't steady at all. It's very shaky, and looks amateur.

It's obvious by watching that it's a low-budget production, but what I'm aggravated by most, is the lack of commitment this feature has. It really doesn't appear to me that anyone on screen was really trying. Their dialogue is terrible, and it's delivered without confidence like it's a school play rehearsal. I'm sorry, but I just can't praise a movie, cast, or crew for making a movie that looks like you just had fun filming the whole time. The music is lackadaisical, and doesn't do anything to help the scenes progress but add a goofy flare. It's just over the top randomness that forgets small details, such as having blood on a knife that was just used to stab someone several times.

After murdering people, the sisters feed them to already existing zombies that they made. Some people they bring back to life, others become food for the undead. It all plays out in a brutal fashion, but it's really hard to buy into considering lack of effects, and the fact that all the good parts are in black and white, saving all the color shots for looking at nothingness in the desert. It just doesn't make sense to me, and the creativity behind Blood Soaked is severely lacking. So you've got a lopsided plot, bad acting, lame dialogue, little-to-no gore in color, and just an overall tiring experience. I won't be watching this again. It tries to end in a twisted Re-Animator-esque way, but it's a little too late. The films lack of inspiration and impact are already cemented by that time.

On the positive side, I hope those involved in this movie who plan on really making a career of acting or filmmaking learn from their mistakes, and try a little harder next time. It be cool to see some of the cast in future projects putting forth a good effort. It's just unlikely, because usually those involved in films like this don't really want to act as their job, they just want to be in a movie. In which case that shows, always.

BLOOD SOAKED is the usual vapid indie horror flick with aspirations of being a 'grindhouse' movie, whatever that is. A couple of women go on the usual low key road trip, but soon find themselves held captive by a pair of psycho sisters with a line in raising the dead. Filled with experimental-style black and white inserts and some terrible acting, this is mindless viewing.

Bubbly Piper (a winningly perky portrayal by the adorable Heather Wilder) and assertive Ashley (well played by the pretty Rachel Corona) are a lesbian couple who find themselves in a dangerous situation after the run afoul of the sadistic Sadie (aggressively essayed with deliciously nasty go-for-it brio by Laina Grendle) and her equally vicious sister Katie (a chilling turn by Hayley Derryberry) in the remote desert. Writer/director Peter Grendle brings an admirably harsh and uncompromising take-no-prisoners attitude to the bleak premise that delivers loads of startlingly brutal violence, a handy helping of in-your-face graphic gore, and a nightmarish mood that never lets up for a minute once it kicks into gear. Moreover, the story isn't nearly as predictable as one would expect, as a major character meets a shockingly abrupt demise fairly early in the action. Corona and especially Wilder make for extremely personable leads; their strong, natural, and utterly appealing on-screen chemistry makes them easy to root for and care about. Moreover, Grendle has an absolute ball with her juicy role as one remarkably mean and scary psycho bitch. The desolate desert location evokes a powerfully unsettling sense of isolation and vulnerability. Tyler King's crisp cinematography and the rattling score by Latifa Sams further add to the overall punishing impact. However, it's the straightforward simplicity of the taut narrative and the no-holds-barred sensibility which stays fiercely true to itself to the literal bitter end that give this picture its substantial wicked punch. A really rough and upsetting item.

A freshman named Piper on her first day of college is seduced by an older co-ed and shares a sleepless night in the New Mexico desert partying it up. But this newly formed lesbian couple's first day together is violently interrupted by a pair of orphaned sisters with a taste for kidnapping, torture and the creation of flesh-eating zombies in their underground bunker! As they fight for their lives and attempt escape, the couple uncovers the sister's terrifying plan for a Fourth Reich army of the dead. Now, only the couple's wits and survival skills will save them from this undead Nazi nightmare.

BLOOD SOAKED is properly titled as the blood and sheer brutality in this film is mind boggling. There were several times that I was taken aback by what I'd just witnessed. So kudos must be given there. It seemed as if those involved in the production of this movie made exactly what they wanted to achieve. One aspect that confused me was why does it change from color to black and white mid stream? I think if it would have all been in black and white it would have been much better. I'm not sure if this was due to lack of funds. Being a special effects person myself I personally know showing blood in B&W is much more cost effective and easier to do so I'm hoping this was the case, it just kind of confuses the viewer but the greatness of the story and the attacks by the sisters quickly makes you forget about that and just carry on.

I must admit that for an independent film this one outshines most made and makes for a good creepy ass movie. For the majority of the film the cinematography is done well but at times it's like "whoa, we're watching The Blair Witch Project" with it's shaky camera shots. BLOOD SOAKED Is one that should definitely be played in a dark room to obtain the full creepiness. As for the play up of the movie "lesbians and boobs" I just don't see it. There was one kiss and very few boobs shown, which was fine by me as I despise films trying to ride the soft core porn train to obtain views. But being billed this way was just misleading.

Now it wasn't until I started this film that one of the NAZI sisters was played by Hayley Derryberry. she wasn't billed well and isn't even listed on the IMDb page which is a big shame. In no way am I trying to take anything away from Heather Wilder or Laina Grendle's performances. They were excellent yet I personally felt that Derryberry's performances was the best in the film. She showed the psychosis we're supposed to believe from the girls to the fullest without over doing it. As stated I'm not trying to take anything away from the film it just saddens me when i see a performance as such and the person delivering isn't even credited. But enough of that. BLOOD SOAKED is one hell of a weird, bloody film.