Blood Star (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | A sadistic Sheriff is above the law - video Dailymotion

A sheriff hunts a woman across New Mexico in this horror-thriller, that Film Brain thinks doesn't hit the gas properly.

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00:00A sadistic game of cat and mouse plays out in the desert in horror-thriller Bloodstar,

00:06directed by Laurence Giacomelli.

00:08Brittany Comancho is driving through New Mexico when she's terrorised by Sheriff John Schwab,

00:13who targets, toys with and then hunts women for his own sick amusement.

00:19Shot in just ten days, Bloodstar looks pretty slick all things considered and it's largely

00:24carried by the performances of Comancho and especially the creepy Schwab.

00:28Bloodstar works best as a commentary on misogynistic violence, not just with the Sheriff, whose

00:33gun and badge is allowing him to get away with murder, but also that Comancho is driving

00:37towards an abusive boyfriend who she keeps excusing, and we know he's an a-hole because

00:42his name is Rhett.

00:43As a thriller though, I found its attempts to build tension to be stop-start, especially

00:48around the middle, but towards the end it starts getting properly nasty.

00:52There are shades of wolf-creep to this that I found a little bit unpleasant, and that's

00:56not helped by some contrived plotting in my opinion.