Wednesday, February 15, 2023

 

'Hemoglobin' aka 'Bleeders'(1997) - Peter Svatek.

With the 90s yielding all too few bona fide horror classics, it certainly had its fair share of enjoyable oddities, and, Peter Svatek's, Rutger Hauer-starring shocker 'Hemoglobin' weaves a melodramatically Lovecraftian tale about terminally sickly, truth-seeking husband, John Strauss (Roy Dupuis) and his loving young wife, Kathleen (Kristen Lehman) whose fateful return to, John's grand ancestral mansion in a desolate, brine-lashed New England provides the grisly catalyst for a series of increasingly macabre revelations about his interbred family's grossly degenerated history, and the sinister secret lurking behind his morbidly strange cravings for embalmed human flesh!!! 

Appealingly classical in its approach, Svatek's sporadically grisly, doomily atmospheric creature feature still has much to recommend it to avid horror fans. Alongside an unusually subdued performance by, Rutger Hauer, the relatively unknown cast equip themselves energetically in this entertainingly lurid interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Lurking Fear'. With its hateful hermaphrodites, sordidly incestuous couplings, and rampant cannibalism, John Strauss/Van Damm grimly unearths a little more than he can chew! While subterranean schlocker 'Hemoglobin' isn't quite as dynamically orchestrated as it could be, the serviceable text is by genre icon, Dan O'Bannon, and it climaxes bloodily with a rampaging, cadaver-craving coterie of satisfyingly grotesque ghouls!

'With ravening hordes of coffin gnawing, cadaver-craving cryptids running amok in this benighted New England backwater they'll soon be nowhere left to formaldehyde!' - Weirdlingwolf. 

 









 

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