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  Review by ruisgevoelig ★★

  @ BUT Film Festival 2024

  The idea of an Albanian set horror movie is interesting even more in a real underground old USSR bunker. Shame this spends 80% of it's run time doing a sorid drama plot about drug dealing that is extremely boring and badly written while a promising villian gets some scrap moments in it. The last 20% are fun slasher hijinks which makes you wish for more of it. There's a second part coming and it's going to be kung-fu focused which is a turn from this.

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  Review by yaelpollie ★★★★

  This was fun! You can see that Alex Visani and his crew had fun making Blades In The Darkness. It's a story well told, with loads of dark humor and cool, gory kills! Not scary by any many means, but so much fun!

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  Review by sophieensang ★★★★½

  I'm currently the program director for the BAY OF BLOOD Film Festival here in North Bay, Ontario! As the festival progresses, I thought it would be fun to share my personal thoughts on each feature film that we're screening along with a bit of info on why we chose to screen it.

  This is so much fun! It's a violent, stylish low budget slasher with a very well conceived antagonist and some surprising swerves into DTV action movie territory. Really hope it gets a good distribution deal.

  Selected for going above and beyond what is expected of this particular subgenre and delivering a piece of Euro-horror that makes great use of cultural contextualization.

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  Review by Max__twd ★★★★★

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  7/10
  Alex Visani si cementa in uno slasher vecchio stampo dal buon ritmo e dal atmosfera cupa che sa regalare tanto sangue al interno di una ambientazione suggestivo e marcio. Il low budget non fa una piega dato che il materiale pratico per gli squarti fanno loro sporca figura,per non parlare del intricata trama che ruota attorno al marciume albanese al interno del bunker, la fotografia e le musiche rimandano degnamente ai film anni 70/80 di Joe D'Amato così come il villain armato di fondenti lame . Il cast regge la pellicola per tutta la durata divertendo anche il pubblico facendo domandare più volte chi avrà la meglio, Manuela Arcuri è sempre bellissima anche nel ruolo da villain ed è proprio lei ad accompagnare le teste decapitate degli ignari personaggi.tra sangue e mistero la pellicola si porta a casa un notevole inizio per una possibile saga nostrana passata in sordina purtroppo.

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  Review by A Merrit ★★★

  It was kind of nice to see an Albanian set horror movie that really leaned into that setting. This is about some would be hustlers that get hustled by the mob and everyone ends up in some tunnels under Tirana. Of course something else lives down there in a bunker that hasn't seen the light of day since the end of communism in Albania. They go all in on the paranoid communist creation as the killer for this slasher and it works pretty well. When it's going full stalk-and-slash with a constant loop of Albanian communist propaganda playing down in the dank bunkers and tunnels this movie delivers. The characters and the set up are ok, although the whole love story/love interest cousin guy thing really falls flat for me. Great killer design in this helps smooth things out, but it could have gone for a bit more claustrophobia.

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  Review by mati0610

  Duelo a muerte... con cuchillos? 😦😦😦

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  Review by Jon Blizzard ★★★

  I saw this at Demonic Brilliance Film Festival 2022 in Fredericton and it was a great closer.

  This movie was really cool, but also a little bit disjointed. First thing is first, Lorenzo Lepori is awesome in the two movies I've seen so far (Nati Morti and this). The guy always goes for it and brings a ton of intensity in an old school kind of way.

  I love the look, atmosphere and music of the movie. So much works, but where it fails is the characters, with most of the cast being fodder with minimal personality. The romance thing with "Chad" was undercooked and his entire character fell flat for me. The fact that he ends up being the…