An investment group invests a large sum of money into opening a sweet new bar/nightclub in a long-forgotten former communist bunker! As they go about renovating the space into a mix of punk, goth and hipster they suddenly face a monster, hidden for decades that is armed with blades and thirsty for blood…
다크 블레이드, Ostrza w mroku
Canada
Demonic Brilliance Film Festival
USA
Los Angeles Film Festival
Greece
Anatomy Crime & Horror International Film Festival
Italy
Albania
Albania
Canada
Greece
Italy
USA
Carnage in the streets crying blood emoji in the sheets
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.
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!
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.
Finally a slasher for communists! Blades in the Darkness is an Albanian horror movie that's main problem is that it's about 40 years too late, and that there's really no story or characters to really get invested in. The practical effects were fine, and it's a short movie, but I would've liked to see more details of how and why the killer became who he became. I know he hates capitalism and everything it stands for, but why the Wolverine hands?
MY FAVORITE SCENE--Where did he go to bathroom for 28 years?
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.
Duelo a muerte... con cuchillos? 😦😦😦
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…
