From my favorite movies..

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I had not heard of Bleeders, or it's other title Hemoglobin before but when I saw that it had Rutger Hauer in it I had to watch it as he has always been a favourite actor of mine. Bleeders is actually based on Lovecraft's 'The Lurking Fear' and there are traces of Lovecraftian horror in this film. It begin with a voice over explaining how the King of Holland forbade any interbreeding in aristocratic marriages so Eva Van Dam who was in an incestuous relationship with her twin brother fled with her family to a remote island. Centuries later, John and Kathleen Strauss arrive looking for a cure for John's blood disease. There secrets are uncovered and the full horror of John's condition is revealed. There are some nice Gothic moments and some genuinely creepy atmosphere which help but the only problem is that the creatures are really not that scary. They are completely deformed but really not that frightening. The film might have been a little more effective if the Van Dam creatures had only only glimpsed occasionally as scuttling shadows. It might have added to the eeriness of the movie rather than seeing them fully. The acting was good with Hauer putting in a good solid performance as did both Roy Dupuis as John and Kristin Lehman as Kathleen. It was still a lot better than what I had expected for a DVD that I picked up in a discount shop for $2.00 though.

John Strauss (Roy Dupuis) and his wife Kathleen (Kristin Lehman) journey to a secluded island in search of a long lost heirloom. Sent away to Europe as a baby John had a trust fund which helped raise him, but was never able to discover the origin of the money or his own past for that matter. Finally he and his wife manage to connect the dots to the island, but no one on it recognises the name Strauss. Inflicted with a deadly affliction John is dying and his only hope is to discover the secrets of his past. One of the few on the island who is willing to help him is Dr. Marlowe (played by Rutger Hauer).This hauntingly bad piece of filmmaking derides it's origin from some Lovecraftian lore, which truthfully has not had a good history of proper on-screen treatment. "Bleeders" is no exception and although Dupuis and especially Rutger Hauer give the script a half-hearted attempt the overall direction of the movie is tragic. The film lacks pacing, basic storytelling abilities, logic and worst of all - horror. Even the farcical dialogue and jumpy script can be forgiven to some point, if the gore is in the right place and the creepy crawlies manage to inflict some fright. Given the monsters look like half-melted outcasts from "The Muppet Show" there isn't even any tongue and cheek ha-has to let you distance yourself from the sheer badness.In this movie everything seems to be way off and severely amateurish. Were it not for the nudity (including one extremely long sex scene, which is arguably the only watchable sequence in the movie) it could easily pass for a bad TV movie.Rutger Hauer tumbles down into the acting ghetto with this outing. Almost as if he really did die in "The Hitcher" and since than it is only his decomposing corpse is being employed to boost video sales of zombified E-class garbage. Hopefully 2011 will announce his big comeback, when "Hobo with a Shotgun" and than South African directed "Spoon" hit the screens to offer a much deserved homage to the downtrodden Dutch actor.It must be noted however, that a couple of extremely interesting ideas pop out during the wanting experience, that do prove the pointless point that the basic plot actually reeked of promise.

Pretty middle of the road "Lovecraftian" adaptation that continuously bogs down. Incest and evil deformed creatures that live in tunnels beneath an isolated island, should have worked better. The main problem is the characters are either hardly developed, or terminally boring. The movie almost seems like a series of random events, including a pretty intense, and totally gratuitous sex scene. Rutger Hauer delivers the only acceptable performance as he gradually pieces things together. The film has good atmosphere, nice locations, and grotesque creatures, but fails to impress, because it is so slow building toward the rather disappointing conclusion. - MERK

My friend and I love to rent awful, gruesome, horror films, then sit and make fun of how bad they are (while enjoying the gore). So far, this film has been the most enjoyable for us. The little gnome dudes are funny themselves… and watching them kill is hilarious… Then the characters are so lame and the concept of the gnome's origin is kind of goofy too. There is some gore and some nice images in here, but the concept, acting, and characters just make this film incredibly cheesy… I mean really, how many movies feature a doctor who looks at a corpse that was mangled in a boat's propeller and says "Hm… I'd have to say death by severe mutilation."… WE WERE IN TEARS AT THAT LINE. That was the funniest thing we'd ever heard! Now, whenever somebody gets diced up pretty bad in a film, we have to make reference to it by quoting that line.I gave this movie a 5 out of 10 because it really is awful but I found it incredibly entertaining… in a "Mystery Science Theater 3000" kind of way.(And if you're having trouble finding it, the DVD was released under the title "Hemoglobin".)