Blood Relations

This movie was a piece of crap, inane without much of even an attempt at a plot, didn't have enough gore to be a slasher flick nor enough camp appeal to be funny. No surprise, no suspense. If they shortened it by two thirds it could maybe be passable as soft core * with too much of a storyline. A lady goes to visit her new boyfriend's vastly wealthy parents estate, where she meets his somewhat dysfunctional family. The father is a neurosurgeon of some sort and his dying grandfather lives upstairs. They both end up acting like dirty old men, nudity commences. Eventually she discovers that there is a laboratory in the basement where the surgeon performs unholy experiments on unsuspecting victims. Goes downhill from there.

This was a great movie. The only question I have is: Does the ending on the DVD end with the brain transplant taking place or does it have the extended ending showing the dad, son, and now pregnant Lydie Denier (with the mom's brain inside Lydie's body) on the tropical island living it up? The extended version has been seen on television but I have not seen the DVD and was curious as to how it ended. The extended version definitely adds a more complete picture as to what the family went on to do after the brain transplant. If anyone knows, please e-mail me (rajetrac@hotmail.com) and we can compare notes. I like the subject matter and look forward to science-fiction becoming science.

BLOOD RELATIONS starts out like an erotically-charged thriller, turns into a mystery, then winds up in full-blown horror territory. Nothing is as it appears to be, as the story takes several quick, off-kilter turns. Lydie Denier is the increasingly perplexed Marie, who slowly uncovers the family secrets that will cost her dearly. Kevin Hicks is Thomas, Marie's unpredictable fiance. Jan Rubes plays Andreas, the extremely friendly, possibly unbalanced patriarch of this little psychodrama. There are definitely some hidden parts to his personality! This movie is twisted, bizarre, and in the end, utterly satisfying...

A woman stays with her fiancé at his father's mansion. The father is a brain surgeon, or at least a brain surgery hobbyist - he has a surgery room in the basement. Her fiancé's ill grandfather also lives in the house. The father and grandfather seem to be interested in her at least as much as her fiancé. Lydie Denier is beautiful, but apart from her beauty, the film is really quite the bad one. It is boring and uneventful. She gets drugged several times by drinks, and doesn't wise up to that. She has odd drug-induced hallucinations or dreams, or perhaps merely witnesses odd things relating to the surgeon and his supposedly late wife. Avoid this one. I'd be curious to see something better with Denier in it, though.

An average horror movie with excellent shots, that sometimes really scares you. If you pay good attention is the plot not really so surprising. The whole film takes place in one house, and has a 19th century baroque sphere.

This is a masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted thriller, with highly sophisticated dialogues and a thrilling plot. The performance of Jan Rubes is fascinating: it is certainly the best maniacal character ever created. Too bad the movie was unnoticed by the viewer and ostracized by the critics.

It took some time to really get going, but once it did, I was rather pleased. It's so refreshing to see things that you'll never find in a mainstream film. There were things in this movie that were downright sick, and yet those were the parts that I enjoyed the most. The setup was perhaps a little slow, but the finale was one that I won't soon forget. It's not for all tastes, but if you can enjoy films that are more than a little warped, then it is truly worth seeing.