Bereavement
Bereavement
| 16 July 2010 (USA)
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In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan. While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.

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liamforeman

Alright, this movie is your basic gore fest. It had so much potential and really could have explored in more depth how this boy became a serial killer. The killing scenes are pretty good, especially when that noisy annoying girl gets roasted in the furnace. I know any kind of movie requires some suspension of disbelief, but you are kind of amazed at how totally stupid some of these victims are. I was impressed with how much screaming there was. One scene the annoying girl screamed for at least two minutes. Funny stuff. Anyway, I liked it. I just wished they could have gone more into the psychology of the psycho killer. Also, it would have been better if some of the victims weren't so stupid where they basically offer themselves helplessly to be killed. I mean, they had no survival instinct at all, so you really didn't feel sorry when they met their ultimate fate.

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robert-sheyd2-112-623709

Saw this on the horror channel and there's Lots of blood and gore with many graphic kills but movie is boring only good thing about it is Michael Biehn. ***********************contains spoilers*************************Basically a serial killer who is a carbon copy off buffalo bill is kidnapping and butchering teenage girls and makes some young boy who he kidnapped earlier watch all his crimes and help him so he's basically grooming him into his replacement therefore the ending is a foregone conclusion. I would say its only worth watching if nothing else is on and you really are bored otherwise there is far better in the slasher genre out there. 4/10

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bowmanblue

I watched Bereavement due to it having Michael Biehn in. Despite never quite living up to his potential after the success of Terminator and Aliens, he normally puts in a solid supporting performance in whatever he's in.Bereavement tells the story of a young boy who's kidnapped by a serial killer and forced to watch as the man executes one girl after another. Nice. After five years, a seventeen year old girl moves to down after her parents were tragically killed in a car crash. She starts to discover the 'terrible secret.' There's nothing too revolutionary about the whole 'small town serial killer' premise, but it starts out with reasonable promise. I was quite enjoying it and wondering what all the negative reviews were talking about (and there are many if you care to look online). However, what starts off as possibly an enjoyable serial killer flick, descends into one daft plot hole after the next and soon I found I was actually laughing at how stupid everything turns out to be.I know you have to suspend your disbelief to watch most horror films, but this one is too much. Here, if you're interested, are a few 'spoilers:' the killer drives round the town slowly in the most beat-up distinctive van imaginable, abducts a child and drives off. No one notices this. There appear to be no police in the town who bother to investigate this possibility and look into the loner who's still living in an abandoned slaughter house. This killer then abducts local girls at an alarming rate. No one actually notices or seems to bother investigating. We are told at the very beginning of the film that a child who cannot feel pain due to an illness MUST be checked every hour on the hour for cuts etc that he is unable to notice. Yet, he can then go on to live for five years quite healthily with a serial killer in a grimy old warehouse with no medical attention whatsoever.Sadly, these plot holes come thick and fast and just become annoying. About the only real thing Bereavement has going for it is the scenery, which is indeed well shot and atmospheric. Unfortunately, it's just too hard to believe to truly enjoy.Probably best to avoid.Oh, and if you do decide to give it a go - turn the volume down. Seriously, this film has more women screaming than any other film I think I've watched.

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sol-o_guest

The worst movie I've ever seen my god... I don't even know what to say. is awful. If you stumble with this any time please save your two hour of life and see anything else this is a shi* movie... The biggest disappointment for me was see Michael Biehn in this terrible movie. Everybody dies here the main and the minor characters, really I repeat DO NOT see this movie. I don't have anything else to say. Everything is bad with this movie, for me this haven't any screenplay is just guts and blood and you say OK and what is that for? and finally you find the movie is a nonsense since it begins still ends. Nobody can believe the things that happen in here...

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