Blood Beat [1983]

This film is very poorly represented by its poster. There was no sex in the movie. The vibe of this movie is some sort of combination of Things and Hereditary but without the humor of the former or the quality of the latter. Frequently something would happen in this film and we would all look at each other in the hope that someone understood what happened but no one ever did. The lore of this movie is kind of nonexistent, and the film kind of feels like an attempt at justifying someone's purpose of samurai armor.

The plot is about a woman's two kids coming home for Christmas with their significant others. She's a painter who refuses to marry her boyfriend, and her son's girlfriend thinks she can read her mind. There's some deer hunting. Sometimes the girlfriend freaks out and has visions of a samurai. People start dying. This samurai seems to have something to do with the mom, but it's not clear. It might give her the ability to paint or just possess her to make its own paintings? The samurai is defeated kind of easily by her two kids who may have magic powers that they got from her. That's the end.

We only really got two brief laughs. Mostly we were confused.

Spoon Rating: 2