Product Details

• Actors: Brenda Adams, Lynne Adams, Denis Akiyama, Lydie Denier, Kevin Hicks
• Directors: Graeme Campbell
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Trinity Home Ent
• DVD Release Date: April 13, 2004
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001Z4OVU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,708 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BLOOD RELATIONS - DVD Movie

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Which One's The Brains Of This Operation?..., July 9, 2009

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Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein "bigfootsalienbaby" (under the rubble) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood Relations (DVD)

BLOOD RELATIONS starts out like an erotically-charged thriller, turns into a mystery, and winds up a full-blown, manic horror fiesta! Nothing is as it seems. The story will appear to be heading in a certain direction, only to take a quick, off-kilter turn. Lydie Denier is the increasingly perplexed Marie. She slowly uncovers the family secrets that will cost her so dearly. Kevin Hicks is Marie's unpredictable fianceé, Thomas. Jan Rubes plays the overly-friendly, possibly unbalanced patriarch of this little psycho-drama. He definitely has hidden parts to his personality! BR is twisted, absurd, and in the end, utterly satisfying...

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love it, October 24, 2006

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Angel Fountains - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Relations (DVD)

Don't listen to them, if you like b-movies with a bite to it, I highly recommend this movie.
Lydie Denier is amazing, beautiful and a very convincing actress. It's not really graphic until the end part. There are mild sexual scenes but not to the point of an R rating.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tale Of Buried Secrets, Sinister Schemes And A Dark Mansion Survives A Few Flaws, July 30, 2008

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Stephen B. O'Blenis (Nova Scotia, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blood Relations (DVD)

When a young man brings his fiancee home to the family mansion to meet the relatives, sinister happenings start to occur all around. In a plot that should be too wacky to work but somehow does, it seems everybody has deep secrets and wicked motivations, with the young couple evidently scheming to knock the man's extremely wealthy father off in order to collect a large inheritance; with the father possibly guilty in the 'accidental' death of his own wife a couple of years back and possibly having sinister plans for his son's fiancee; and with the very aged, bed-ridden grandfather seemingly having some skeletons in his closet as well. Throw into this the family doctor's apparant involvement with at least one nasty plot and his girlfriend's role in all of this, and it's hard to believe this isn't the outline for a farcical comedy. But it's not, and somehow it manages to pull it off. There's no question that there's a camp factor in here, but Blood Relations is another reminder that, occasionally, some campiness isn't all that bad. Although most of the characters are pretty villainous, they're interesting, and there's some doubt as to just how guilty some of the parties really are or how far they plan to take their ideas; nonetheless there are few traditional 'innocents' in here.

There are some definate problems with the movie that I'll address quickly; one is the sound job - during the early parts much of the movie is unintentionally hard to hear without having the volume so loud that the rest of the movie is thunderous; thankfully this is limited primarilily to two or three early scenes. And occasionally the gaps in logic go too far, and require a sizable suspension of disbelief.

Beyond those shortcomings, the movie is loaded to the max with classic horror/mystery elements. With eerie and effective lighting, a great harpsichordish musical score, ominously creaking doors, a mansion in the wilderness, hidden passages and secret corridors, and the mystery of just what unholy frights are hidden away in the basement, not to mention a considerable sexy edge (bolstered by the beautiful and frequently naked Lydie Denier in the lead female role), this is the kind of movie that will make afficionados of this type of horror (like myself) overlook a couple of gaffes. Highly recommended.