Product Details

• Actors: Claudia Vargas, Michelle Mousel, David C. Hayes
• Directors: Sean Tretta
• Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Well Go USA Inc
• DVD Release Date: April 7, 2009
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001QJ73JA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,910 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Death Factory Bloodletting" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Well Go Usa Inc Release Date: 04/07/2009 Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Nr

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3.0 out of 5 stars Much more entertaining than expected., December 11, 2009

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Robert P. Beveridge "xterminal" (Lakewood, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Death Factory Bloodletting (DVD)

The Death Factory Bloodletting (Sean Tretta, 2008)

Sean Tretta seems to have something of a bad rap over at IMDB, probably because of The Great American Snuff Film, which I haven't seen yet. I've been hearing bad things about it for years, but it's always been in the back of my head as one of those "I have to see it to find out if it's really that bad" movies. Having now seen his third feature, The Death Factory Bloodletting, I moved it way up the queue. This one is following along in IMDB-land, with a 4.4 rating as I write this, but I gotta say, I liked it a bunch.

This is a sequel to Death Factory, a 2002 film I also haven't seen, but I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt because I'm a fan of Brad Sykes, who directed that one (Sykes' Evil Sister II: Bound by Blood was one of the most pleasant surprises of my year's viewing). Here, we have a collection of sickos who have assembled to watch a bloodletting, defined in the film as the murder and torture of a kidnapped innocent. Among them we have such fine, upstanding citizens of the community as White Manson (Home Invasion's Shane Dean), Black Johnson (Twisted Soul's Kareem McRoy), Rubber Love (Machined's David C. Hayes), and a handful of others whose handles I can't reproduce in an Amazon review. The main character, however, is Ana (R.E.M.'s Claudia Vargas), who goes by the handle Massive 9, and we know from the opening scenes that she's the for ulterior motives, but telling you what would be a spoiler. Unfortunately for the folks who dropped two thousand bucks a head to attend this little gathering, it's actually been put together by a religious fanatic (To Wander in Pandemonium's Noah Todd) who thinks scum like this need to be wiped off the face of the Earth, and he's got the perfect tool to do it: his deformed, feral, cannibal sister Alexa (Michelle Mousel in her first screen role).

The first thirty minutes or so are setup, before things really get rolling, and given how little character development there is in the film (why make one character a white supremacist, throw him in a room with a black guy and a Latino woman, and ignore the possibilities?), it probably could have gone a little faster. After that, though, it becomes a straight-up action flick, and given that, it gets the job done and how. Complaints have been made about the lack of actual gore in the film, but I thought the cuts were done pretty well for a film that was obviously made on a very small budget. Hardcore gorehounds will probably be disappointed by the jump cuts (which remind me of pre-MPAA movies; you see the fist/knife/whatever headed for the intended victim, them you jump-cut to blood splashing the wall, or whatever), but it's all filmed well, and the guy who did the editing actually knew which end of the cutter to use. When it comes right down to it, the fight scenes, especially the climactic one, are a lot of fun. While this wasn't marketed as an action flick, I thought the fight scenes were better than those in most of the action movies I've run across in the past couple of months. Yeah, most of the big plot twists were predictable, but that was to be expected once we realized this wasn't going to be a deep, meaningful flick.

Not to say it couldn't have been better, naturally. Both Shane Dean and Kareem McRoy are good enough actors to have pulled off some real performances, had they been given a good enough script to have something to work with, but the one they got, co-written by Tretta and Mike Marsh (who previously collaborated on Death of a Ghost Hunter), gave them very little to work with. Vargas, on the other hand, is inconsistent; she's great during the fight scenes, especially in the final third of the movie, but in the opening scenes she's flat (I wonder if that was intentional, and if I should be blaming Tretta). In the end, though, it's a fun, watchable little flick that doesn't deserve the rep it's gotten at all. ***

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2.0 out of 5 stars At least the Terror Toons series was entertaining., November 6, 2009

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Pee Wee "Movie Watcher" (Hawthorne, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Death Factory Bloodletting (DVD)

This film was a real let down for me. First of all I liked the first Death Factory. It was fun, exciting and cheesy in a good way. I like cheese, not just in my food :) First of all there was NO Tiffany Shepis! How can you have her play the main villainess (Alexa) in part 1 but have her M.I.A. in part 2? This seemed like a "let's make a quick buck" flick. The first film had heart and you could tell. This one just seemed like a bunch of people getting together to capitalize on the originality, flavor and courageousness of the first flick. I'm sure some people will like it, especially if they have never seen the first, but if you go in thinking this is an actual sequel you will be greatly disappointed. No Tiffany Shepis? At least Terror Toons 1 & 2 was made by the same people and was somewhat linear. Brain Damage Films put this out so if you're familiar with them you definitely know what your going to get when you hear that gravelly: "Welcome Gorehounds." At least the Terror Toons series was entertaining.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, March 19, 2011

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This review is from: The Death Factory Bloodletting (DVD)

For a movie that I took a chance on, it was Sweet!!! Good make up, lots of blood and gore and the acting was actually good