Laurie and Hugh are a successful young couple who have just closed on a weekend home away from the city. Unbeknownst to them, the neighboring property contains the crumbling remains of a boarding school that was shuttered in the wake of an unspeakable massacre. The sole survivor of that massacre still resides in the ruins of the school, hiding from the world and wanting only to be left alone. When Laurie and Hugh's friends explore the property, they have no idea that they disturbed an emotionally-broken killing machine: The Blood Widow.
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If you're looking for yet another mediocre Texas chainsaw massacre slasher flick then look no further! The woman or man or not sure on the cover is in costume, from what I gathered while watching is that it has mental problems? When grabbing this DVD from red box at the safe-way I honestly thought it was a sci fie horror film. Like Jason X when Jason is in space because of how the title picture looked then finding out when popping it in it's just like every other B horror film I rented and have been renting for the last 6 months. I'm thinking that the main characters wanted to buy this house to throw large rave dance parties, one of the girls I think is a drug addict? Saying something about tripping out on drugs but I was en't really paying attention the film overall was not that good and for the most part up until the kills was boring and pointless. This is the first time I've watched a film from the production company and although it isn't as bad as Haunting of the innocent it's definitely on the crap list. I recall yawning throughout the film. The kills we're a bit unique but over all splatter slasher movies get so much better than this. I'm going to have to give it 2 out of 10 stars. It seriously was so boring it was hard to pay attention. Not so bad it's good but yet another so bad it's boring and when you mix together the independent splatter/slash with weak characters you couldn't give 2 dumps about with a killer that has already been done before or is unique but you don't really care then your outcome is a boring wasted Saturday night with 1.30$ missing from your wallet. Pretty disappointing. I'm on the chase for the next troll 2 horror and let me tell you "The fans" it's a so bad it's bad film. Take a few shots for me if you still are interested and want to watch with your buddies, get that movie style popcorn, and get ready to yell at the t.v like I do because you'll definitely be disappointed and bored.
I watch a ton of movies, so a lot of them end up being low budget horror films. That said I am used to sub-par acting, and scripts with plot holes. This movie was not as bad as many others I have watched and not as bad as some other reviewers are saying.Most of my problems with this movie are of the technical variety. First the camera person had focusing problems especially early in the film.It was as if he was using the camera for the very first time. The biggest problem in the movie though is the sound. It seemed like the only mic used was the one built into the camera. This results in barely being able to hear quite a bit of the dialog, especially if the actor was either facing away or was further away from the camera. This was a big factor in characters feeling flat. Other sounds such as doors were muted. Bottom line the movie itself wasn't that bad but the audio was so frustrating that it made the movie seem much worse than it really was. If you can deal with the audio you might like this, otherwise skip this one.
I really enjoyed this movie a lot. I don't know why so many people expect every film to be an attempt to redefine a genre, sometimes an audience just wants an hour and a half of good fun with a few laughs and some awesome kills. Blood Widow gives the audience just that. The Widow herself is super cool looking. I think some people are holding that against this movie and I don't quite get it. Sure, some of the characters do dumb stuff, but that's what people do. Why is every abandoned structure vandalized to some degree? Because someone who wasn't supposed to be there went in and did things they weren't supposed to do. Sure it has a few flaws but things get so awesome in the third act that it makes it all worth it.
While this movie had more budget than many of the recent movies (especially the found footage movies) usually do, and thus could have had some benefit from that, I can honestly say that it was money well wasted. The acting is some of the worst I have ever seen, the characters epitomize flat, the premise is weak and given no real development, and the building of suspense is nonexistent. The gore is amateur and funny at best-- but not really funny in a good way. What makes it worse is just how terrible the characters are... for a bunch of successful young adults to just arbitrarily decide, without a second thought, to go onto private property and absentmindedly vandalize a home, even if abandoned, is absurd... it is like the story is written by a barely pubescent teen imagining what adults would do, and things just go downhill from there(note this is not really a spoiler, it happens almost immediately and is not really any more important than anything else in this sad charade of a plot). Of course, as always, watch it if you want to. It is not the very worst movie I have seen by any means, but it comes close, and given the variety of better options out there (including the option of replaying something you have seen before but enjoyed) you might save yourself some time and skip this poor attempt at a slasher flick.