 Thanks for checking out this movie review video. This is for the 2019 film Blood Vessel and it's coming to shutter It's a shutter exclusive and it'll be on shutter on Thursday November 5th. So for that reason since this review is coming out early and this is brand new No spoilers. So just so you know But I will talk about it in enough detail without giving spoilers that people who have already seen it will be able to say Ah, yes, I understand what he's trying to get at here here here So I'll kind of point to some things in the film that you wouldn't really know unless you've seen it So just saying anyway directed by Justin Dix who apparently directed the film crawl space, which I've heard is pretty solid I have not seen it yet. I do really need to watch that also written by Dix and Jordan Prosser who prior to that had only written scripts for short films nothing feature length Like I said, it's a shutter exclusive. So a quick synopsis without giving too much away And this is all based off of you know Basically what you might find in the trailer or the little synopsis or the little like log line that they throw out there through shutter so it's basically during World War two and it's a bunch of people trapped at sea who Have a ship basically a ghost ship show up a Nazi ghost ship and nonetheless show up that they are able to climb aboard and Try to get to safety, but that's not all there is to it Hence the title blood vessel and that's where I'll leave you obviously there are things that happen Obviously, it's horror so you can kind of make guesses as to what you think's gonna end up happening in the film I kind of thought it was gonna go one way initially and then they go a different way now that said they do Go with something that is well tread material I thought it was gonna be well tread material in one way it ended up being well tread material in a different way So I like the fact that I wasn't correct at first what it was gonna end up being going on with blood vessel, but At the same time when the well tread material shows up I always kind of tend to be like I need something very new now that said This film definitely get gets points for having a different time period than a lot of these types of films and Having a different Setting as well than most of these films because think about it. How many horror films have been set during World War two time I mean, I can only really think of films like Overlord and Frankenstein's army. I think the what is it called Devils Rock? I think was one of them Blood Creek those types of films that deal with horror in it during that time and it has some similarities with those films and it also kind of Delves into a little bit of a Nazi lore that some people may or may not be familiar with but That's all I'm gonna say about that But I do give it points for like I said, you know being during that time period but also being at sea You know, how many horror films do you really know that we're done at sea? The only ones I can think of is I think I think it's called the triangle And ghost ship and that's pretty much all I can think of at the moment Well, I mean then you have things like open water jaws stuff like that, but this it's not like those It's not like open water and jaws. It's it's very different. So anyway It does open by conveying the dire situation pretty well It does a very good job of kind of conveying the isolation of all these people But it also does a very good job of establishing some of these characters early on you do Understand that the this is a lot of people who are just kind of thrown together in a terrible situation Just trying to survive and they all have different nationalities They all have different backgrounds which does make you kind of wonder like how did they all end up on that one life raft? Because they're all from different places for the most part That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but that's not really that important. So I don't really focus too much on that It's not a big deal But you it is good because there's a lot of diversity to the actual characters And it's not just in diversity of like where they come from and who they are as people but it's kind of when they get into the situation and Situation gets even more dire How do they act and how do they react and really in the end this film ends up becoming something about kind of human Nature like when you get into a situation the best and the worst of humanity in a sense And then it kind of passes that and becomes all about the evil The blood vessel basically which obviously I'm not gonna go too far into Like I said time period and setting I'm good with that The mix of people trying to survive together have natural suspicions about each other by the way That's another important thing that's set up early in the film because it then sets things up So that it's not just about whatever's going on on the ship It's about the relationships or lack of Relationships that exist with people and that's normal like that. That's very realistic You know when you get into a situation like that not everyone's just gonna come together and just be like, okay Well, I'll follow what this person says or this person says or or work it out democratically I mean that would be nice, but that's not how it works people have strong personalities people have strong opinions and people get afraid and paranoid and Suspicious when it comes down to dire situations dealing with life and death and that stuff is definitely a play with this film I like the gradual Exploration of the vessel itself. This film does not move super fast. It's about an hour and a half long Which is good, but at times it does kind of feel like it's longer because the Exploration of the vessel itself is slow now that said there are kind of little pieces To give you a clue about what's going on bigger picture wise kind of littered throughout the vessel that you'll end up seeing So yeah, one thing in particular that when it popped up on the screen and I know most Horror fans will kind of think the same thing or something similar when to when I saw it is there's one item That's found relatively early on the vessel that I was like Any any horror fan is seeing this and seeing this item Just there Bad sign, you know bad things are gonna happen. So They don't really treat it that way the characters, but you know All the characters have horrors from their lives That end up being talked about and it's ones. They really can't leave behind Another aspect I do enjoy about this film is the fact that it's not just about the horror of the blood vessel or the horror of You know people trying to come together in a dire time But it's the horror of what gets talked about amongst the characters all the past horrors because of war that they have seen or Experienced, you know people losing members of their family, you know people having to be Involved in war, you know getting shot having you know visible as well as Invisible scars from from what happened and like I said things that they can't leave behind These are horrors that follow them. So I do like the contrast of the horrors for sake of the horror genre that's going on in Present, you know in present time of when you're watching that film versus the horrors that have already happened that keep following these people around So I like that Already talked about that It does take some real time like I was kind of saying it feels like it drags a time It really does take some time before things really start to get moving And there is one moment in particular where things, you know, it's kind of that Pop Moment where you know the cork has been popped and things are going to get progressively more interesting and crazy And the build-up to that moment. I thought was done pretty well. It was very tense So I that may have been my favorite part the kind of a reveal of when you understand what is really going on here And then it's going to take things downhill for the characters themselves So I like that. There's a utilization of people by the evil I'm gonna say this kind of carefully because I don't want to give too much away about it But if you've seen it, you'll know what I mean There's a utilization of people by the evil that got old for me fast It should have kind of been more of like a one-and-done type thing where it's like this happens once we're good But it got used a few times And within a kind of short span of time within the film and it just felt like it was a little bit stale You know introduced that thing be like oh, this is happening, but don't keep doing it So once again, if you've seen it, you should know what I'm talking about There's something at the end that I actually saw coming a mile away The ending is pretty decent. I was okay with it. It wasn't you know amazing or anything like that But it was decent So but I saw it coming and I think a lot of other people probably will see it coming I think I don't know It kind of depends on how you watch movies if you kind of watch it without You know really Thinking super hard about it. You won't see it coming But I am always kind of looking a little bit deeper at films when I'm watching them This is about how evil affects everyone ultimately no matter where you come from or who you are But in dire times, how do people act and react? In some you see the best humanity has to offer and is a other this sorry in others you see the worst So that is one of the key things in there Now that said I have to give it an overall rating. I would say For me this film was worth watching once I Enjoyed it enough one time and like I said gets points for you know The certain things I kind of laid out that I feel are different now That said when the evil is introduced when the main problem is introduced I don't feel like there's enough done and developed with that To it for it to be really that interesting So everything is more interesting leading up to it and including the reveal of it and then after that it Just not that fun for me. It's not that interesting for me They could have done a lot more with it now that said it's a decent film like I said It's worth watching once so out of five stars with half stars in play I'm gonna go ahead and give it a solid three star rating I was between two and a half and three but Because of you know the time period the different time period and the setting I'll bump it to the three But just know I was between a two and a half and a three so Because a little bit like I don't know but anyway if you've seen it go ahead and let's have comments down here Spoilers in the comments go ahead and then we'll just kind of you know if you want to go further with the film We can do that But do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button if you like this video or any video. I've ever done that is your best way to repay me Literally, I do get excited and happy and feel more motivated when I see a new subscriber Come into the channel and it's it's like a community. 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