Blood Relic (2005 Video) User Reviews

Hmm

[zarg78 · 4/10 · 1 September 2012]

Erm... OK.... So this is a... C movie, D movie. Let's be honest, this movie isn't that great and feels like a porno gone wrong most of the time.

The idea's nothing new, the script isn't terribly strong, and the acting is quite lame at points. It looks amateur, it feels amateur, and any sense of horror or suspense just seem to get lost along the way.

On the upside however (certainly for the male audience), most of the female cast end up in various states of undress or show 'things' and *spoiler* everybody dies. Still, when you stagger in at 3am, completely drunk, this movie will do quite nicely and it isn't too unbearable when your sober.

Blood Relic

[Scarecrow-88 · 4/10 · 19 April 2008]

Employees renovating an old hanger, abandoned by the military after one of their own, Hank Campbell(Jon Christian), went on a killing spree leaving behind a monkey god talisman he found in a Caribbean jungle, decide to gather together for a little party, not knowing that a killer is lurking within. They are trapped because the hanger is under a security system which locks all doors and windows, with only the basement an avenue of escape(..and it's chained). Their entry into the place is a pass card, found snapped into, inside the stomach of a victim. Getting to the basement and breaking the chain will be top priority, but doing this will be difficult as the psychopath, dressed in jet fighter uniform and helmet, awaits each and every one of them, his/her methods of execution increasing in creativity and difficulty. What is driving this person to commit the murders..the talisman, found by newly employed Terri(Jennifer Lauren Grant)where Hank had left it, having been given to their intense boss Harry(Billy Drago), driven & dedicated to keeping his museum from going bankrupt without his brother's insistence on adding video games and other luxuries to lure clientèle to their fledgling business which is losing profit. Oh, and Hank, after spending 22 years in lock up and under psychiatric care, has been released..

Microbudget slasher flick has nothing new to offer. The violence is carried out mostly off-screen or framed in a way not delivering the gory thrills one often seeks in this sub-genre. The film parades a female cast willing to display their tits, so that might provide some titillation where the violence is lacking. I could guess in advance who the killer was, and I'm pretty sure the majority will as well. Other than the supernatural blood relic angle, this flick is basically just another low budget slasher flick, shot using a camera which moves constantly. Drago provides some amusement in his minor role as another loon, this time an employer who really has a passion for keeping the museum in business, explaining his sob story to Grant's Terri about daddy's death in Vietnam, and the political idiots who sent him to an early grave...Drago, as usual, devours the scenery like a shark ripping into a seal.

I DO love a good, cheesy horror film!

[webweasel2 · 5/10 · 19 January 2007]

There isn't really a whole lot one can do in making a horror movie that doesn't at least remind you of another horror movie you've seen. In that respect, Blood Relic is no different.

There's not enough time spent showing how all these folks who know each other actually know each other, or why those who DON'T know the others are there in the first place.

Some films talk too long about integral parts of the movie, but Blood Relic just slaps the main inanimate character in, expects you to believe it, and then tries half heartedly about halfway through to explain where it came from.

A few gratuitous partial nudity shots for no apparent reason, some excess blood from small wounds and not enough from large ones, and a few other shortcomings detracted from the whole movie.

My main complaint is that the characters aren't explained or developed at all. After each character's fatal meeting with the bad guy(s), you're generally left thinking "Awww, and I hardly even knew that one, either." I had no problem with the movie though. As someone who takes every opportunity available to watch what others routinely refer to as 'bad' movies, I'd give it a five (or even better) because it had a little of the horror, blood, screeching, running around senselessly, etc. that I've come to love in my movie fare.

And another feature to this flick... Do you simply LOVE a freaky ending? I like unexpected twists, as long as they're plausible. The ending of Blood Relic is...

Something you'll just have to see for yourself!

Slasher + Hot Teens = Fun

[lastliberal · 2 October 2008]

It really didn't take long in this slasher flick before one of the hot teens working in museum reveals her ample beauties. Rachel (Kelly Ray) is accosted in a hallway and offers her skin to the slasher.

Soon after a slasher starts collecting hearts from his victims. My money is on old Harry (Billy Drago), as he seems especially creepy. But, the wacko Hank (Jon Christian), the dude who went ballistic and killed three sailors, is out of the hospital. Is he after the blood relic he left behind? It's time to party, and Corey (Debbie Rochon) is just having a fun time, but it is Pam (Melanie Rademaker) that really wants the party to start, and, boy does she get it started.

While Pam and Mark are off doing their thing, Corey is winning at strip poker and has Rachel topless again, along with Alison (Caitlin Sabins). Things are getting interesting.

Then the blood starts flowing...

15 boobies, 11 dead, and one decapitation.

D-E-A-T-H

[nogodnomasters · 5/10 · 14 April 2019]

In the opening scene we see an officer going berserk and killing people because he is wearing a dog tooth on a rope, or ancient artifact as the film tells us. Later a group of young adults hold a seance and play strip poker in the hanger with some good results and some bad. Harry (Billy Drago) with a bad personality and dental hygiene runs the place.

If not for the nudity, this would be a pretty bad slasher. Now part of a film 8-pack.

Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Debbie Rochon, Melanie Rademaker, Caitlin Sabins)

Dust-bin Dwellers: Bad D.V.D. rental night.

[Captain_Couth · 2/10 · 16 August 2005]

Blood Relic (2005) is another in a long line of terrible straight-to-video movies. Some are fun but most of them are dreadful and unwatchable. This is one of those that need to be not seen and never heard from. The only reason that I didn't give this movie a straight zero was that low budget movie queen Debbie Rochon was in the picture and she was hot to look at. Other than that I wouldn't give it the time of day. Billy Drago looks like he drank all of his money. He could barely stand up and all he did was mumble his badly written dialog. He tries to come off like Udo Kier. But Udo's cool and he can still deliver a performance. Billy Drago was just too painful to watch. A bad movie all around that doesn't warrant a further look.

Stay away, not recommended.

Definitely a Relic

[ghoulieguru · 2/10 · 4 October 2005]

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

There's this evil little sculpture thing, like the thing that Max Von Sydow finds in the beginning of the Exorcist. This little sculpture has a really unsavory effect on the people who possess it. The first guy that gets his hands on it is some kind of fighter pilot. He goes all wing-whack and shoots everybody at his Air Force Base.

Now flash forward to 2005. There's a bunch of college kids who are trying to help put together some kind of aviation museum. For some reason, the kids are renovating this museum in the middle of the night, and they all end up getting locked inside. Enter the creepy KILLER! Blood Relic deteriorates rapidly into a fairly standard Teen Slasher flick. They even have the standard couple sneaking off into the back room to make out. The guy is into kinky sex and likes to terrorize his girlfriend with a knife while they enact rape scenarios. You just know where this is going, right? The killer dons a fighter helmet (complete with shaded visor) and pretends to be kinky boyfriend. The girl protests with the usual progression of "Hey, I kinda like that" to "Hey, not so rough" to "Alright, cut it out, it's not funny anymore" to "Aaaaarrrggh!" I wish I had a penny for every time some second rate horror movie pushed this clichéd wreck on unsuspecting viewers.

Fasten your seat belts everyone, this is My Bloody Valentine in an aerospace museum. In the end, there's the standard bad guy twist where the bad guy that you thought was the bad guy isn't really the bad guy. It's kinda funny when you think about it, naming this movie Blood Relic - because that's what this movie is: a relic. A crusty old outdated thing that should probably be left on the shelf to collect dust.

Bloody unwatchable plot line is a Relic of the past

[fyrekracker · 1/10 · 26 June 2005]

A complete waste of about a half an hour.IT'S A CURSED TALISMAN MOVIE...OH NOOO!The only thing this movie had going for it was a nice collection of vintage warplanes that were housed in the museum used a setting for this mess.Cardboard acting, horrible make-up (rubber Spencer Gifts Heart, and Campbells Tomato Soup blood)and the same old "lets have a séance" plot line abound in this movie.About the only thing frightening in this movie is Billy Dragos dental work!I had to turn it off after what appears to be every female hottie in this film starts disrobing,looks like the producers ran out of ideas early here.I can't understand why after watching the terrible acting in the first half hour of this movie,anyone wouldn't be rooting for the killer anyway. Skip this one.

Slasher movies like this is what gives Slasher movies a bad name to critics and anyone with half a brain.

[lordzedd-3 · 1/10 · 30 June 2007]

Let's see what we have to work with, a blood relic just sitting in the middle of an open field resting on a skull with no other relics or warnings not to touch it. Where anyone can find it, that makes perfect sense (NOT!) Second, what is the back story of the relic, how old is it, how did a demonic force get into it? These are kind of important subtext questions so the movie will make sense. Since they don't have it, it doesn't. Lastly, the big twist of who the killer is also makes perfect sense (NOT!). In one seen, the killer grabs one of the girls, pulls her into the room and while holding the door shut ties her up, takes her across the room and places a noose around her neck that's connect via a pulley to the door that when they force the door open it hangs her, then leaves via an unknown door, changes her clothes and returns to help open the door and kill the girl in about ten seconds. That doesn't make any sense. Plus, the pilot that found the relic, he hasn't changed in twenty years. So, what the hell was Billy Drago thinking when he agreed to this disaster of a flick? What's more shocking is this crapper didn't go right to video. THE NOOSE!

Great Twist in an Average Slasher Movie

[claudio_carvalho · 6/10 · 22 March 2008]

In 1983, the aviator Hank (John Christian) kills three sailors in a military airbase while wearing a voodoo talisman that he found in a mission in Granada. He hides the object in an electrical box and twenty-two years later, he is released from the asylum where he had been hosted considered mentally sane again. Meanwhile, the former base is transformed in an aviation museum owned by the idealistic Harry (Billy Drago), who is facing financial difficulties to keep the establishment working and problems with his partner and brother. When one of the workers finds the weird hidden artifact, she gives it to Harry. In the end of the working day, the group of co-workers decides to meet each other after 10:00 PM for a séance followed by sex, gamble and beer. When two couples vanish, the others decide to seek them and find them killed. Sooner they meet Hank that tells the survivors that the talisman unleashes a fiend that possesses the person that is wearing the necklace, forcing the owner to kill people with sadism. The group joins forces trying to find a way out of the museum while Hank chases the killer.

"Blood Relic" is an average slasher low-budget movie, with all the common clichés of the genre including many breasts, exits closed, silly lines and stupid decisions. However, most of the deaths are original and there is a great twist in the end when the identity of the real killer is disclosed (I confess that it was a good surprise for me and totally unpredictable). The acting is not as bad as indicated in some reviews, in spite of the exaggeration of Billy Drago and the incoherent and frantic attitudes of Joshua Park. In the end, as a fan of the genre, I had fun with this movie. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Maldição Voodoo" ("Voodoo Curse")

Painful

[markinprovidence · 1/10 · 22 November 2013]

This movie is awful. It pained me to watch it. Every actor, director, producer and anyone with even the smallest role in any aspect of this film should be barred from the genre indefinitely.

This film is so bad there aren't strong enough words in the English language apt to describe. I'll just spit on the ground instead.

Your movie is awful and you should feel bad. Scrappy Doo is a better experience. I would rather rip my arm off and f@@@ myself with my dead limb than get anywhere near it again. I would rather eat glass than see any of these actors ever again. I would rather jump in a river full of piranna than meet the director.

Formulaic, yet entertaining.

[donquixote-3 · 10/10 · 23 June 2005]

Director Ingvordsen's third foray into the horror genre proves to be his best attempt yet. Not a masterpiece by any means, but also devoid of any pretense claiming itself to be... his movies never try to be anything more than they are - a stab (no pun intended) at some good old fashion scary fun. Although the story has a couple of clever gags, beyond the smoke and mirrors the script is rather formulaic, and thus somewhat predictable. The actors are a bit of a mixed lot with Park, Grant, & Steccato a step above the rest. Ironically, the film's only actor of mainstream notoriety, Billy Drago gives a tremendously "over the top" effort and the worst performance in the film. Scream Queen Debbie Rochon does her job well and provides a nice mammary cameo... but other than that she is rather forgettable. The locations used are pretty cool and definitely up the production value. Although Ingvodsen has begun to introduce more flesh and gore with this movie -- he hasn't learned that although Sam Raimi was from the bootleg special effect school, he at least did it well. Note to the director - get a real special effects artist next time, there is only so much disbelief to be suspended. In writing a critique, I am being critical... with my pet peeves aside, the movie was worth a watch. It held a good pacing, was well shot and edited, and has some great moments. If it's a low-budget slasher flick you want, then you've found it.

Bloody Talisman

[UFO · 7/10 · 5 February 2006]

A navy Pilot (John Christian) with an evil talisman goes ape crap and starts killing people for no reason.Before he's captured and locked away in an asylum, he hides the talisman in a hanger: 22 years later, the hangers are being re-opened to serve as an air space museum. Harry (Bill Drago), a rather obsessed man, is in charge of this project, and he brings in a group of you folks: Terry (Jennifer Lauren Grant), Pam (Melanie Radmaker). Max (Jesse Steccato), Corey (Debbie Rochon), Dan (Joshua Park, Rachel (Kelly Ray) and Allison (Caitlin Saibins, to clean the place up and work as tour guides once the place is open. Pilot Hank is released from the mental institution at the same time and he kinda wants his talisman back. But one of the gang is a scavenger, and she finds the talisman. It disturbs her and so she gives it to Harry, who locks it away. Then the killing starts and the kids decide to have a séance. Great idea huh? They're not timid about gore, here, but at the same time,they don't over use it. And some of these people deserve to die. I like when a film has characters that you actually want to die. It gives one a sense of satisfaction. Because in some way, you always kinda root for the killer, as long as he's killing people who deserve it. And have you ever noticed that, in the movie world, in any given group of kids together in a bad situation, someone ALWAYS has a Ouija board? The sound here was rather bad, but this was the screener, I'm assuming that would be fixed in the final version. The lighting was excellent here, used to good effect, but never too much. The film isn't shy about nudity, which is always a good thing. There's too much hand-held camera-work for my tastes. I realize the hand-held camera-work is supposed to make the action scenes more immediate, but here's the tip. The film is lensed in 24P digital video, and DV has the effect of making jitters of hand-held camera work more noticeable and more irritating. Fortunately, there's not enough of it to hurt the film. The sets should also be mentioned here, I don't know how the filmmakers scored these sets on a low budget but they're GREAT. The acting is professional level. I found Debbie Rochon a little wasted here, playing essentially a side (but interesting) character. Debbie Rochon is easily capable of taking the lead in any feature she works in, which is not a slight to the other actors featured. The flick has a very nice ending, and the credit sequence, which features out takes, is not to be missed. In the final analysis, I enjoyed the film a great idea. It was fun. - Ron Leming The Hacker's Source Magazine

Been there, Seen That

[moviemanic07 · 22 June 2005]

A cast of mostly anonymous teenagers hired to clean a aerospace museum experience bloody mayhem after one of them finds an occult talisman. This film is strongly adequate in most categories. The photography is professional. The direction is reasonably assured. The cast isn't too embarrassing, and generally all of the girls show some flesh. The aerospace museum location adds production value even though most of the mayhem happens in a more generic warehouse. The gore is adequate – though the make-up generally plays out in the aftermath of the attacks rather than in the violence itself. So what's the problem? It's just tired. Young, good-looking people being killed off one-by-one by a masked assailant. Been there, seen that. I needed an extra hook, and there wasn't one. The potential of an interesting "monster" was wasted. The talisman is a wasted device. It seems turns the wearer into a homicidal maniac. The characters are always simply running from the unknown human carrier than battling the demonic entity pulling the strings. It would have been more interesting if the filmmakers had taken the time to develop force behind talisman better, and let the characters try to figure a way to take it on directly. Not terrible, when you consider the low standards of the genre, but there are better films out there.

Solid Old School Slasher

[danthewrestlingmanorigin · 7/10 · 28 December 2006]

Everything you desire in an 80's slasher movie is here. And what elevates Blood Relic somewhat, is the unique location used, which certainly beats the cheap storage garage sets many low budget films use today. Also two of my personal favorites, Debbie Rochon, and Billy Drago are involved. Sadly Debbie is not the star, but her scenes are still beneficial to the film. And for my money, Billy Drago can be in the most lousy piece of trash film imaginable, and still deliver an engrossing villainous performance. The kill scenes were solid here, and the ladies shed there clothes often. Ingvordsen has finally got a grasp on what fans of this genre enjoy, after his watchable, yet almost pg level Bog Creatures. In the end this is an above average throwback, with a unique setting, and the required horror goodies.

Guilty pleasure of the highest order

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 10 January 2017]

Working at a local military museum, the workers restoring the exhibits find that a sacred amulet found there releases a murderous spirit on the base and is being forced to kill due to the homicidal influence of the relic, forcing them to find a way out of the museum while stopping the killer's rampage.

This here wasn't that bad of a slasher. One of the things it does right is getting a good setting for this of an airplane museum, which is pretty creative and allows for some great scenes within such a location. The scenes after the party, mainly the ones of the survivors wandering through the darkened hallways, trying logical plan after logical plan to get out, provide some great suspense as they go about their plan of action without alerting the killer, and trying to accomplish all this really great sneaking around in such creepy locations are really good. Due to the blackout in the area bringing up the cramped and confined office spaces and crew quarters within the long hallways while moving out into the main hall of the museum which has them interacting alongside the full-scale plane props during this set-up, the atmosphere here is highly enjoyable while generating plenty of fine suspense along the way. The killer in here has one of the greatest designs ever, as the large jumpsuit, pilot's helmet, and mask make for a great look for a killer, and this one pulls it off nicely which compliments the suspense quite well. There's some great nudity in here, which is greatly appreciated and surprising for this film, not only including a strip-poker sequence that has enough flesh since everyone strips off, but there's a couple of great sex scenes and the fun sequence where one woman is forced to strip for her boyfriend wearing a pilot's outfit until it's revealed that it was a gag, but it's a suspenseful one before that nonetheless and is all a part of the fun had with the nudity. The last big plus here is the fun and ingenious twist provided at the end that turns around the identity of the killer really nicely and comes about as a fun and surprising scene. Along with the blood and gore in here, these here are the film's good points as this here only has a few flaws to it. One of the biggest problems here is the fact that the purpose of the talisman relic indulging in the power to the others is never explained. It's simply told what it is, what it looks like and what happens, but never why and there's a serious void in here due to that, especially since there are two people who had been exposed to the powers who had told of their experiences, yet nothing is said why they were under the influence. Another flaw is that the majority of the film's kills are incredibly lame in execution, either doing it off-screen to be found later or just being the single most bloodless type of kill around which really leaves them pretty lackluster for the most part. The last flaw in here is the lame séance scene, which offers nothing of value, seems stuck in for no reason other than a lame jump-gag or a predictable supernatural twist, and could be done away with easily. These here are the film's flaws that hold it back.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Nudity, Graphic Language and a couple mild sex scenes.

Fun movie

[jmat40 · 6/10 · 22 August 2012]

A good story and above average acting in Blood Relic. You can never go wrong when Debbie Rochon is in a movie! I'm a Billy Drago fan too but considering the very short amount of time he's on the screen I wonder why he gets top billing and an Associate Producer credit. Debbie and Jen Lauren Grant should have top billing. The other actors were good too. There's a nice amount of gratuitous nudity which you have to have in these type of movies. The sound was annoying. One second I'm turning it up to hear the dialog a second later music plays or another sound comes up and blows out my ear drums. It looked like they had a great time making this movie and that translated well for me. See if you notice something you rarely see in horror movies at the end. I noticed it quickly and said I'll be damned.

Not to bad

[OldSkoolProd · 7/10 · 19 August 2018]

For myself a B-Movie I generally would not watch twice. but I would this one back on. This movie was pretty cheesy, but it was entertaining. The story was OK... not very original... But.. There were no plot holes... Which I believe is probably the most important aspect in telling a story.. (Weather its good or not...)

The acting was OK at best. The woman in this flick are very attractive. (Which was helpful) There was enough nudity and comedy to justify this movie being truly a traditional slasher flick.

Entertaining slasher opus

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 27 August 2013]

A bunch of young folks are hired to help open an aviation museum on an old closed U.S. military airbase. They find themselves being terrorized by an ancient evil spirit that they accidentally unleash. Director J. Christian Ingvordsen and screenwriter Matthew M. Howe trot out all the usual endearingly creaky old school retro 80's knifekill clichés: Hokey fake scares, a vicious and mysterious masked maniac, a couple of obvious creepy red herring characters, a handy helping of graphic gore, the inevitable have sex and die routine, and a generous amount of yummy gratuitous female nudity (seven bare breasts in total!). Moreover, Ingvordsen relates the familiar, yet still enjoyable story at a steady pace, makes good use of the sprawling location, and concludes the picture on a surprisingly bleak and nihilistic note. Billy Drago deliciously hams it up as batty curator Hank. Ubiquitous seasoned scream queen Debbie Rochon provides a winning blend of sass and spirit as the sarcastic Corey. Delectably buxom brunette knockout Caitlin Sabins supplies the best and most succulent undraped skin as the kinky Alison. In addition, there are solid contributions from Joshua Park as the amiable Dan, Jennifer Lauren Grant as the perky Teri Jablonski, Kelly Ray as the spunky Rachel, and Jon Christian as morose war veteran Hank. The revelation of the killer's identity is a genuine surprise. Howe's crisp cinematography gives the movie a pleasingly polished look. Timo Elliston's shivery score hits the shuddery spot. Recommended viewing for slice'n'dice fans.