Very well executed

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Martin Bristol brilliantly portrayed by (Spencer List), a young boy with congenital analgesia, is kidnapped by psychotic and deranged Graham Sutter (Brett Rickaby) . Over the next five years, Graham brutally butchers several young women, forcing Martin to watch. Throughout the film, Graham talks and argues with the skull of a bull hung on the farmhouse wall. This compelling story delves into the mind of a madman and the torture the young boy not only witnesses but has to endure. The casting could not have been more appropriate as on a $2million dollar budget the film was well paced and edge of your seat style. The editing and cinematography were perfectly wound together. This will for sure be a great cult classic in terms of psychological thrillers. A solid 6 almost 7 for me out of 10.

It's Tuesday night over here, and I was in the mood to watch some good old school horror, so I watched Stevan Mena's Bereavement, which is the prequel to Mena's Malevolence (2003). It's a really good psychological horror/slasher film and it's something like The Shining meets Friday The 13th, starring Brett Rickaby, Alexandra Daddario, and Spencer List as Martin Bristol. It also stars legendary actors Michael Biehn and John Savage. For those who have not heard about this film series, I highly recommend that you to start off with this prequel, Bereavement, and witness the rise of pure evil before you watch its 2003 slasher follow-up, Malevolence. Also, this film is not for the faint of heart; it's eerie, it's disturbing and it's freaking intense. It's 2018 now, eight years since 2010's Bereavement and hopefully, one day in the near future, we fans will get a third chapter from mastermind and horror filmmaker Stevan Mena.

Not much going on throughout the movie... or I simply stopped paying attention. Alexandra Daddario is a beautiful actress with quite a few big movie roles under her belt; however, in this movie her character wasn't very bright and would progressively become more and more annoying (with the way she acts, she should've been dead 40 minutes in). The protagonist, Allison, pretty much becomes that one girl who is always going to be endangered no matter who comes to save her or how many times she escapes because of a villain known as MR. BAD PLOT... and I guess her own stupidity. How does she react when the killer or something bad appears? "Ahhhhh!" or she starts to cry. Next time try not to be so loud when your goal is to survive in a horror flick (SPOILER: Allison doesn't get another chance to redeem herself RIP). I swear I saw her going for a run early on in the movie, so why isn't she running now? (Rule #1 of horror 101: RUN RUN RUN!) As for the villain, he's... well, he's kind of lacking as he doesn't have a strong presence (he's not scary). The killer also didn't have a real advantage over any of the other characters, so I'm not sure why none of them were able to fight him off (seriously, it's just one guy). The guy seemed slightly below average in size (body mass), why is he overpowering everyone with such ease (1 jab knocks a girl out cold). The supporting cast didn't really add much substance to the narrative either and I didn't really care when or how they bit the dust. Another major character in the film is a boy named Martin who is kidnapped by our killer and latter becomes his successor in the movie Malevolent. This makes Bereavement a prequel that tries to explain why Martin turns into a murderer but fails to explain why this actually happens. How does the kid somehow inherit the killers traits? How does seeing a goat-head-thing translate to him gaining the mindset of a killer? Why was his transformation so quick (he did a complete 180)? These questions are never really answered, it just kinda happens because... you know... PLOT. The story failed to convey a smooth viewing experience, in fact, it was pretty bland and just seemed to drag on from start to finish (a bit slow for my taste). Overall the story deserves a 1.5 star, but the girl is quite the looker *cough* with massive assets *cough* and her aunt and uncle seemed like really cool people so I added another 3.5 stars.

This nutjob kidnaps a small boy to be a kind of mute companion / trainee / witness to his bloody murders. He kidnaps a screamy teenage girl (one of many, this one is particularly screamy, though), but her family (all people who have never seen a horror film before) come to rescue her one by one, and don't notice that the nutjob is creeping up behind them as he despatches them in unpleasant ways (except for Uncle Jonathan who he murders quite nicely with a shotgun). But the nutjob gets killed and the teenage screamy girl escapes, except she doesn't because the small boy knifes her multiple times, the end.This generic mad killer / slasher horror is slightly below average of its type, but gives the impression it thinks it is actually rather good, which it isn't. Michael Biehn and John Savage, a couple of decent actors, are both in it: this doesn't help. Brett Rickaby (of whom it has been said, "Who?") plays the nutjob. He is not very good (this is me being kind about his performance). Alexandra Daddario plays the main protagonist / victim. You will notice her very very blue eyes, her constant ear-splitting screaming and her impressively proportioned and vigorously nippled bosom. And not necessarily in that order.