Summer's blood

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285010/
On the apartment floor there are clothes, broken bottles of beer, a wallet and
the camera moves slowly across the floor. The sheets on the bed are bloody, on
the bed a naked woman, she has been tortured with a tool, a knife and a man
calmly speaks about holding the family together.
This is the start of Summer´s blood, in the plot keywords on the imdb link it
says "off screen rape", I couldn´t find that anywhere in the movie. However the
version I saw is in 87 minutes and the uncut is in 91 minutes.

On the countryside a young woman, Summer Matthews (Ashley Greene) hitchhikes her
way to a small town. She meats a young charming looking man, Tom, and his not so
charming mother. Well, Tom ain´t exactly charming in the first place since he
keeps young women in his cellar.

20 minutes into the movie I see resemblence to movies such as Babysitter wanted,
Dungeon girl (they both play a lot on the stockholm syndrome case), Captivity,
Martyrs (the forced feeding part), Psycho (Hitchcooks classic you know) - where
a young mentally unstable man has somewhat to close relations to his mom.







The movie is a mix of a psychopathic man who wants to keep his garden grow, an
inwire revolutionist in a sick way. It becomes more clear when the mothers name
is infact Gaia. Gaia is a fun(?) hint on the Japanese/Shintoist way of thinking
that the power/energy of the earth is called Gaia*. So in some way this might be
the first (?) horror movie based on "inwire revolutionist/ save the planet" way
of thinking.
It also involves the Oedipus Complex**.

On the other hand Tom and Gaia has the surename Hoxey (hoax?) so it might be
more interresting movie to disguss that it was ment to be, or was it all planed?
Also one of the proantagonists to the Hoxey family is called (what if, not)
Darwin (Darwins evolutions theory perhaps?) Or what about this conversation;
Gaia - He probably has some halfcacked(?) theory, huh?
Sheriff - No, you know you can´t believe anything that drunk says.

So beside that, what has this movie to offer?
Beside from the obvious facts that Summer being chained in the cellar and kept
there, there is also an "off screen" rape.













It starts rather slow but increases in the tense, allthough it doesn´t get nasty
or brutal, it is however some scene with blood and violence but it doesn´t rely
on blood and gore.

Summer´s blood is an impressive peace of work regarding the fact it was only
shot in 15 days. It may not be a must buy, but definitely a great watch.
In some scenes there is a fly all over the screen, wich actually makes it more
realistic and in some way intense - since it shows that the scenes was shot in a
close timeframe.

Tom might be insane, but he takes cares of Summer and gives her a bath













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Summer - Are you gonna take me upstairs and fuck me or not?
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Summer- I really don´t have time for this shit so why don´t you get out of my way
before I show what kind of bitch I can be, ok?
Tom - I have no doubt you´re a bitch. But you are not leaving, period.
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- If this is some sex thing, I do whatever you want.
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Official Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzxI2lpC9Ic


Notes.
*Gaia, is a hypothesis that was first scientifically formulated in the 1960s by
the independent research scientist James Lovelock.
It is however linked to the anchient Shintoism tradition/beliefs that the
planet, in short terms, reproduce it´s own energy and life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

http://www.gaianvariations.com/

** more on the Oedipus complex
http://changingminds.org/disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/oedipus_complex.htm

About the Stockholm syndrome
http://sniggle.net/stock.php