Blood (IV) (2022)
3/10
All okay except for plot and lead actress.
16 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Movies like this are always ridiculous. I've seen probably half a dozen of these same movies. Child is sick with some weird disease. Mother then becomes a killer to feed them blood or flesh.

This one was especially ridiculous. First of all this is one movie where the mother didn't even need to HIDE this from anyone because it wouldn't have been difficult to connect the dots. He ate the blood and recovered. They would've thought he needed another transfusion and then given him one and once again he would've eaten it. The connection would've been made. They were in the hospital when this was figured out. So instead of just letting the rest of the hospital discover this and maybe get the best doctors in the WORLD on it. She decides to just take him home from the hospital and plans to just steal blood packs. Then become a serial killer. Totally logical conclusion.

How does the old women be come a good candidate? Her blood was filled with all kinds of drugs after trying to kill herself. So lets go feed this drug filled blood to my son. Then she plans to sedate this old woman over and over like that is also of no concern to the blood count. Oh, and people can't SIT in a chair let alone a junky little wheelchair for 24 hours a day. Pressure sores and then infection would come rather quickly. Same goes for the junky little bed the mother eventually brings out. The movie is absurd in this regard. It's as if the mother is acting upon information not revealed ahead of time. That he must be an actual vampire.

The movie gets even more absurd when it shows the characters act normal after huge events. Its as if all of them are psychopaths. The mom is able to play video games with her kid after kidnapping and draining the blood of an old woman? The daughter buys into it with just a single talking to? Are you serious? There is not the slightest chance in the WORLD 2 kids or even 1 of them would be able to keep this a secret. This makes it a frustrating watch.

Even more absurd is when the old woman who is a prisoner is then telling the mother she understands and says well "no one can question your love now". This isn't love she is a lunatic. People wouldn't ACTUALLY do anything for their kids. So if you had to blow up 100 kids to save your own. You would just do it? How could she say she loves her son when she would want him to exist in a world like that. What even IS her son.

Extra lol for the scene where the mother cuts her hand so bad the blood just POURS out and she feeds it to the son without a 2nd thought. Then later the old woman stabs her with these little clippers and she winces in pain like she just had her arm lobbed off.

Add in the incompetent police who don't even REQUEST to take a look in her house and the final half of this movie just because a frustration fest. I hate "annoying" horror. The kids manage to go through 2 visitds with their father where the son eats NOTHING and acts like a total weirdo the entire time and the father is totally oblivious to this. Even though the movie already established the father is their primary caretaker. CPS eventually gets involved and let the mother whom their investigating be alone with the daughter and even scold her. Lol.

The ending is absurd. She should and WOULD be in prison. The way they portray it is ridiculous. Are we really expected to pull for this woman to have FREEDOM let alone custody? Let her rot. The daughter doesn't hold a shred of ill will towards her either when this entire this is her fault to begin with lol. Sorry there is just too many things to list.
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