 Thanks for checking out this movie review. I can't tell if this is a show or a movie But anyways, we're gonna be talking about blood machines It's a 2019 release and the reason I say I can't tell if it's a movie or a show. It feels like a movie It's one cohesive thing, but it's broken up into three episodes basically But I think it's just basically one movie broken up into three episodes It totals 50 minutes and this is a shutter original. I've been doing all these shutter original reviews So thank you very much to shutter for sending me screeners ahead of time when I am putting this out right now It comes out Thursday May 21st on shutter streaming service, so I'm putting this review out early So therefore this is a no spoilers review because I don't want to spoil anything for anyone And I would say watch this film definitely watch this film But you can continue with this video and there won't be spoilers. So you you'll be alright thematically maybe a little bit But that's actually not that important to it But anyway, let's talk a little bit about this blood machines written and directed by Raphael Raphael Hernandez and Savitri Jolie Gunford Who did another film called Kedara now? It was confusing to me because I was doing my research and I found their names as the writer directors of this and Then when I was watching the credits for the film the show film It said written and directed by Seth Ickerman and I'm like wait What so I did a little research and come to find out these two individuals work together Under the pseudonym Seth Ickerman now why that is I don't really know I guess maybe it's kind of to symbolize that They kind of work so well together that they basically become one person They're their own individual people, but when they come together, they are Seth Ickerman. It's kind of like Voltron or something, you know but anyway, so this is The you know, they're calling this a cosmic opera is what they're saying and the the information that was sent to me from shudder it said a Experience they called this film an experience and I understand why and I understand why it's called an experience I understand why it's a cosmic opera because it is very heavily Music-driven now the music is the music of an individual. I didn't know about and tell this So I'm very thankful that I know about this now Carpenter Brute now. He's a synth wave Musical artist from France who like I said I had no idea about but his music is really good And it works unbelievably well with this film Which you know it has to because this is basically all framed around that music in fact This film is a follow-up to a music video that Seth Ickerman did for Carpenter Brute now the music video you can check out. I watched it. It's called turbo killer You can just find it on YouTube just put in turbo killer music video or turbo killer carpenter Brute, but it's When you watch that and then you watch the film a lot of the same imagery in it The effects they look the same the CG looks the same a lot of the stuff looks the same So you can see how blood machines is a follow-up to turbo killer So I would say go ahead and watch turbo killer But I would say watch it after Blood machines because it feels better that way unless you're looking for more of the One-upsmanship of the visuals because the visuals in blood machines is a bit better than the visuals in turbo killer Although they're both very very good. So kind of take your pick You know, do you want to watch turbo killer and then see even better visuals of blood machines? Or do you want to watch blood machines because it feels to me like that stands on its own and then see turbo killer and see where this all originated especially the relationship between Seth Ickerman and Carpenter Brute But the music the synthwave music by Carpenter Brute is really good now a little bit of information on Carpenter Brute a little bit like his music He mixes sounds from horror films metal rock and electronic music to get his sound And it works really well, especially for film like I want him to continue working in film I also would like to see more music videos by Carpenter Brute with Seth Ickerman directing. Yes, please Now blood machines was actually funded through Kickstarter, which is interesting and they got Lots of euros. I don't I don't know the conversion You can look it up if you if you know those conversions Yeah, so they said that the film was actually inspired by The music of Carpenter Brute obviously and 80s films and like I said, they're calling it a cosmic opera And you will see why when you watch it It's cosmic. It's in space and it's very operatic because it's very musically driven Overall, it's 50 minutes Broken up amongst three episodes. I don't think that they had to break it up into episodes But the fact that they did isn't that big of a deal either So you could kind of consume it in parts if you want to but you know, I'm sure especially now Everyone has 50 minutes to put into it and I would recommend that So immediately this thing looks amazing. Yes The visuals are what this is all about the visuals and the music and both those things are outstandingly Well done outstandingly well done the CG in this is ridiculous and the use of color is Beautiful and the color combinations that they use are just very very pleasing I would say that people out there who talk a lot about the film Mandy and the visuals for that film You will probably really enjoy this. I'm not a Horror film or well film in general viewer who's all into just visuals and you know Don't really care about the story that much. I really look for a lot of story in a good script and good characters and all that stuff So this film Lacks a lot of character development. It has one-dimensional characters The dialogue is not that good. There isn't a whole lot of a story to it. There is some but it's very simplistic So what it boils down to is this is all about visuals. It's all about the music And script is very much script and story are very much secondary or tertiary or quadrary I don't know If you're looking for a good story film that goes places This is not that like it's not that if you're looking for a really cool visual experience for 50 minutes This is that now like I said, I'm not that type of person who typically for film looks for just a visual experience But I have to admit I really enjoyed the visual experience of this it does bother me a little bit that there's there isn't more substance to it, but I Understand going into it the way it's set up that it's all about the visuals in the music and that ends up being fine to me You know, it's weird because like I don't I'm not the biggest fan of Mandy because of how it is But I think the biggest difference between these two is a I think blood machines has better visuals than Mandy in my opinion Just saying and be it's 50 minutes with a light script as opposed to Mandy Which is two hours with a light script. I can't take two hours with a light script and good visuals I can take 50 minutes for sure with a light script and even better visuals So that's kind of where the difference is for me the set design and props for blood machines. It's really good, too There's so much detail like and that's the thing like it moves relatively slow Story wise sorry wise, but it's it's so visually appealing and it's not just the way the cinematography and the directing looks which is Unbelievably good, but it's like I said the CG looks amazing the use of colors looks so good But even when you're not looking at that you're looking at the props You're looking at the set design because there's so much detail It's all about detail in this with the visuals so much detail and it feels like it's all about detail with the music as well The way carpenter brute puts his music together very detail oriented. Like I said directing and cinematography is really really really good There's some really interesting angles in this and really cool perspective shots in this Yeah, the set there come in really knows Cinematography really knows directing. It's awesome There's a lot of extra detail added like I was saying there was a lot of cool detail one really good Well, there are two really good examples so there's like this kind of like energy plasma gun thing because it's like in space and It it has it puts off a lot of heat So they even put in the detail of having you know how when there's a lot of heat. There's like a visual Warping of how you see things Yeah, so they have that coming out of the gun Which you know, they didn't need to do that But that's a really cool detail and it looks really good There's also a moment with the same gun where it's got like this green kind of plasma oozing out of the end and it's like neon it looks visually amazing and Once again, it's just like one of these very small details, but it looks so good. I love it The acting in this is not the best. That's another thing to throw out there In addition to the the dialogue not being that great and the script in general not being very good The acting is not that great. It's not terrible But it's not good either. So just know that but you know once again, it's about the visuals It's about the music and that's okay the film keeps you engaged engaged surely with Shirley, I'm sorry Shirley with the visuals and Part of that being is you just want to know where they go next with the visuals because they keep throwing things at you they're not just showing you the same shots and the same colors and the same sets and props and Angles and you know CG they're not showing you the same thing over and over and over again You know those things keep coming back But it just keeps looking like new new new new all the time and that's what keeps you engaged Once again, the music is so good The best parts of it are the musical montages that they have Because then it's kind of harkening back to the whole music video ordeal and that's when it feels best in my opinion and looks best The visual representation of space in this is unbelievably stunning especially their color usage within space the design of it, but the color usage in in Concert with the design of it so good There is nudity in this but it's interesting because the nudity doesn't at all feel sexual It feels more just like raw and natural and it goes with the You know story the little bit of story there is it goes along with it in not being sexual and actually being an important part of The story I didn't find myself looking at it and being like oh nudity. I found myself just looking at it Like not really even seeing it to be honest. It just kind of like blends in with the film So that was interesting Like I said it moves slowly which would be a real killer for a film, but It looks unbelievably good. So you kind of give it a pass at least I did which is not common for me as a as a viewer So I really really really want to see what Seth Ickerman can do In the future Like I said cinematography directing all that stuff so good But I would love to see what they could do with a legitimately good script You know give me a really cool high-concept script that needs awesome visuals and really good directing and cinematography That's what I need and give it to Seth Ickerman. Let's do this So the yeah, I already talked about that one Yeah, the last thing I want to say is a kind of like a little bit of a thematic thing that I noticed in the film There seems to be an underlying theme of women coming to greater power and influence from the fall of men and the libido driven desire to contain and control as an unchained woman feels dangerous To men to the men at least in this film. So it kind of feels a little bit to me like it could be this kind of veiled Met metaphor for women rising to more power over men because of you know men kind of looking at them as as Objects as kind of alien in a sense and not treating them as as human beings as as equals and then You know the tables end up turning and then what situation do you find yourself in at that point? You then think man I wish I would have treated people a little bit nicer when they're above me as opposed to being below me Which is you know what this says So it's it's interesting to look at it from that viewpoint But it's just interesting to look at as I've been kind of hammering home on this. Okay, so I'm very very interested to hear what people's thoughts on this film are So really put comments down there when you do see it whether you've seen it before watching this or after watching this come and Make these comments So my rating so usually I would dock a film like this a lot more because of the script and the characters and the acting and all that but It makes up for a lot with the visuals in the music so and the directing and cinematography So out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna give it a very solid four stars I would say that people should definitely check this out even if you're just gonna watch it once because you're not a you know Style over substance type person like you know same for me, but yeah, definitely watch it at least give it one go Really like it worth watching. I'm I could be tempted to watch it again. Actually that says a lot for me So anyway, thanks for checking this out. 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