Ink of Blood

To be honest, I didn’t know a whole lot about this movie going into it. I knew it was a horror movie, of course, but I didn’t know much else before booking to go and see it.

Unfortunately, although there were some good parts to this movie, I felt that there was a lot that could have been improved. One of the main things was that plot and character details only seemed to be revealed when it was necessary for the plot, rather than having things seamlessly revealed. For instance, at the beginning of the movie, Iris received a phone call telling her that her father was dead…but when she spoke to Katie, I got the strong impression that she already knew her father was still alive. Later in the movie, she suddenly referenced her and Katie growing up in the foster system together. And that she wanted to be an artist, but that was only mentioned to give her a reason to want to stay in the building; or, at least, that’s what it felt like.

I did feel like Baghead was suitably creepy…but I was a bit disappointed in how things ended up playing out. I’d initially thought that the movie would go for a more sympathetic route with the monster, but it just seemed to cross the line from creepy to disturbing. Also, the movie didn’t seem to follow its own rules very well. Baghead was kept a prisoner by a person signing the deed to the pub…but after the owner dies, there’s no name on the deed. So how is she kept a prisoner during the transfer of ownership? I was a bit disappointed to see that part neglected. And did Iris really see her father’s last moments, or was it just a hallucination brought about by Baghead?

To be honest, I was a bit disappointed in the characters and how the relationship between Katie and Iris was portrayed. I couldn’t really care about them, given that everything I learned was only revealed when it was immediately relevant to the plot. And the only real scares were jump scares that were pretty predictable, such as the sudden appearance of the dead people.

I did think this movie had a lot of potential to it, especially when it seemed like the monster might be more of a victim. But the execution just didn’t fulfil that potential. I wouldn’t watch this movie a second time, I’m afraid to say.