This movie reminds me a lot of Grace. Both involve children who require human blood to survive, and a mother who is willing to do anything to keep them healthy.
But unlike Grace, I just can't get behind this movie. The kid in question is eight years old; old enough to know that what he's doing is wrong, that he's become something evil. Grace was an infant, so you felt more sympathy for her. She didn't know what she was, she didn't understand that she was different, and you have to question the morality of whether what the mother is doing is wrong, and whether an infant can truly be evil just because she requires blood to live, even though she has never hurt anyone herself.
The lore in Blood is nonexistent. All we know is that there's something evil in the woods that probably has something to do with a dried-up lake with a creepy tree in the middle, but that's it. We don't know what caused the dog to turn evil, what the virus is, why it requires blood, how it involves the dry lake and the tree...nothing.
The writers really missed the mark on this one. The story needed a lot more fleshing out, or else we're just left with an unsatisfactory narrative that raises more questions than it answers.
But unlike Grace, I just can't get behind this movie. The kid in question is eight years old; old enough to know that what he's doing is wrong, that he's become something evil. Grace was an infant, so you felt more sympathy for her. She didn't know what she was, she didn't understand that she was different, and you have to question the morality of whether what the mother is doing is wrong, and whether an infant can truly be evil just because she requires blood to live, even though she has never hurt anyone herself.
The lore in Blood is nonexistent. All we know is that there's something evil in the woods that probably has something to do with a dried-up lake with a creepy tree in the middle, but that's it. We don't know what caused the dog to turn evil, what the virus is, why it requires blood, how it involves the dry lake and the tree...nothing.
The writers really missed the mark on this one. The story needed a lot more fleshing out, or else we're just left with an unsatisfactory narrative that raises more questions than it answers.