BLEED is one of the better indie horrors I've seen recently but that isn't really saying too much. At least this film has something of a proper budget even if it is very low; the film looks quite slick and has a structured narrative which is unusual for this genre. The story is your usual guff about a bunch of ghost hunters exploring an abandoned prison and discovering a malignant spirit therein. There's a heck of a lot of padding involving extraneous characters to wade through, but believe me, it could be (and frequently is) worse.

This movie has almost nothing going for it, so I will keep this review short and sweet. Yes there are spoilers in this review so be warned now.The villain, who looks like a member of the Wyatt family if you are familiar with wrestling right now, turns out not really be the villain, and he is a ghost who can turn into a fireball. Yep. It happens.There are people and kids with this weird birthmark on them that you think you will get a real explanation about. That doesn't happen. Some of the townsfolk seem super natural like but it turns out they are just your run of the mill cliché backwoods people.The characters are all forgettable and unlikable, the story makes no sense, like for example:The "villain", Kane, kills the black guy (shocker) first in the most wtf way (he humps the air and it slices the black dude all up... yea), but then goes on to save the other character later in the movie.While the old creepy burned down prison setting is actually a cool setting, the rest of the movie will make you forget that simply because it is just awful.Skip this one. Watch Last Shift instead which isn't much better, but it was way more coherent than this garbled up mess.Oh and another reviewer mentioned the "barely legible end credits", and he's not kidding. I thought my TV was dimming itself down.

I am always amazed at the movies that people actually have a budget and go on to make like really? Who green lit this project? Is there someone with money to burn out there because I like to know them personally!!!Let's get into it shall we, first and foremost this movie had potential to be great but instead of explaining things clearly or giving things a good explanation or some back story we get flashbacks that mean nothing because we don't know why we're seeing them and how they relate to the story as a whole. If we could have worked on that back story and told us why people with crescent birthmarks were being hunted down and killed then yeah that would have been awesome. How about we learn that Kane was actually trying to help the little girl and not kill her but he was blamed for all the killings then sat on fire by crooked cops.Then how about we not have the pregnant lady get in an accident, then run through the woods, then go into an abandoned prison, then run from bad guys all while being ready to give birth at anytime THEN you have her give birth and then slit her throat wtf? Who wrote this garbage and why does he hate women?Of course the black guy gets killed that's standard for "horror" films, the stoner hippie girl gets killed, everyone gets killed in this movie you know who should have been killed the movie as a whole. It should have just stayed on the editing room floor and been abandoned and forgotten. I can't believe that I watched this whole kill feast the only person that lived was the baby and again why do they keep killing the people with the crescent birthmarks? This was written so badly I get that they tried to fit in back story but the back story was more dynamic then the actually story so they should have just talked about the back story and why the whole town was killing crescent birthmark people, we never got what the symbols meant, we never got none of that because they writer had to be high and sleep deprived when he wrote this.

I decided to watch this film driven by the seductive trailer, but much to my surprise I called it quits a little more than halfway through because the movie falls between two stools: it was unable to engage me or at least entertain me. The beginning looked promising but as soon as the other people started arriving at the house, the film lost substance with unfitting and incongruent dialogues which attempted to build up a story that is played out so painfully slow and, worse still, defying the purpose of the film. Namely because there is a distinct lack of horror in much of the first half of the film. Then the unfolding story doesn't hold true. For instance, no loving husband in his right senses would leave his wife in an advanced stage of pregnancy completely on her own at a new house in the middle of nowhere simply because he wants to challenge his brother in-law who fancies going in search of ghosts in an abandoned and derelict former prison that happens to be nearby. In terms of the acting, I think that Chelsey Crisp did try her hardest to defend her credible role. However, that of the remaining disparate cast leaves a lot to be desired, which makes the film even more appalling. If you are looking for a great horror film, do not waste your time and money on this one because it neglects to be an enjoyable good one.