RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy

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I returned two days ago from 10 days at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where I watched and reviewed 20 movies. Three were Greek films about making a movie about a movie. They weren’t comedies as “All You Need is Blood” which is a movie about making a movie about making a movie.

Bucky (Logan Riley Bruner) is a teen aspiring movie director with a passion for directing films but lacks the equipment and the requisite technical skills. He strives for a big break when a local film festival has as its theme horror films with a $2,000 cash prize and an apprenticeship with famed horror director Hans Von Franz.

As fortune would have it a meteor lands in his backyard and his father Walter (Tom O’Keefe) touches it, some goo enters his body and he is transformed into a zombie. Well the number of zombies just keeps on growing and Bucky’s cast for his zombie drama film “All You Need is Blood” becomes very authentic and as a zombie feels no pain you can slice and dice them with limbs and blood spurting about like fountains. Very authentic!

We encounter a zany bunch of characters. June (Emma Chase) a stage fright afflicted teen actress, Vivian Vance (Mena Suvari) a cocaine snorting horrifically bad actor, smooth talking Moes Swan (Eddie Griffin) an evangelical sheriff and an assorted and delightfully odd collection of characters.

The movie would appeal to a juvenile audience as it is comedic at a less than adult level. The music is 1963 cheesy. The romance between Bucky and June innocent and the blood and gore is completely unbelievable although many might find it a hoot.

A stellar performance from Griffin particularly his description of hell.

Shall we call the film harmless and fluffy fun with perhaps a satirical steak about horror films in general which might have more of an adult attraction.

You can see the trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdRofjQ-XU

Written and directed by Bucky Le Boeuf and its On Demand now.

RKS 2024 Film Rating 73/100.

Published by Robert K Stephen (CSW)

Robert K Stephen writes about food ,drink, travel, film, and lifestyle issues. He also has published serialized novels "Life at Megacorp", "Virus # 26, "Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog" and "The Penniless Pensioner" Robert was the first associate member of the Wine Writers’ Circle of Canada. He also holds a Mindfulness Certification from the University of Leiden and the University of Toronto. Be it Spanish cured meat, dried fruit, BBQ, or recycled bamboo place mats, Robert endeavours to escape the mundane, which is why he has established this publication. His motto is, "Have Story, Will Write."

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