This film is in no way a remake or sequel to the Terry West epic landmark film by the same name.
In the city of angels, Gabriel (Gabriel De Santi) is mailed a key to a storage shed. Gabriel is interested in the shed as it holds a key to his real parentage. There are homeless people who live in some of the sheds and a mean owner named Arsen (Yasha Blackman),a second generation American who opted to keep his accent. Samira (Bree Essrig) is a chunky redhead who works there and takes an immediate liking to Gabriel who doesn't get along with the owner, hates life, and ignores his acting coach.
There is also a naked woman (Cherie Daly) whose name is Jezebel that walks around like Mathilda May in "Lifeforce." Frequent "B" actress Bai Ling has a small role looking like the ho girlfriend of an NBA owner. Jillisa Lynn shows off her hammy legs, apparently on the same non-diet plan as Bree Essrig.
The plot is straight forward and is explained about a third of the way through.
The film could have been better. They went out of their way to create odd homeless characters and then did nothing entertaining with them. They needed to up the gore factor as the horror factor couldn't carry the film.
In spite of any claim, this is not based on a true story, other than the fact people live in storage units.
Okay as a desperation horror rental. Thank you writer/director Patrick Hasson for NOT making this a hand held camera film.
Parental Guide: F-bomb. Nudity (Cherie Daly)
Blood Shed
2013
Action / Horror / Thriller
Blood Shed
2013
Action / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
Loosely-based on the true events of a homeless loner who moves into a self-storage facility inhabited by a community of bizarre squatters until they are locked in for the night with a deranged female who hunts them down in search of her lost child.
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Mother and child reunion
Something different
In the intro we see some Latin guy get killed by some Spanish-speaking something. We learn that a percentage of homeless in Los Angeles somehow live in storage units.
A homeless guy with mental issues, named Gabriel, living in his car receives a key from his brother. His parents wanted him to have it. It's a key to a storage unit. At the storage facility he meets the mean boss who warns him that any violation of the regulations will get his property seized. Also there is the cute attendant who likes him.
Earlier we met a homeless couple that lives there. The girl is pregnant. Suddenly a creepy lady appears who kills the guy and keeps the girl in a cage and is very interested in the baby.
We meet some of the other tenants. An old mute guy who writes on a typewriter. Two hookers. A young kid and his hot mother (the lovely Vida Guerra who unfortunately gets little screen time).
Gabriel finds a chest in his unit and some junk. The chest is locked. When he finally opens it there's a folder with old newspaper clippings about a missing woman and a child.
The creature lady appears a couple of times and the tenants sort of know about her. She pushes her long black nails into people's heads and that's when we see some flashbacks.
Turns out she was a girl somewhere in Latin America eager to make it to the US, so she hires some lady to do some witchcraft/santeria so she'll find a man to take her to America. And she does. But this guy is violent and nasty and kills her at some point while she is in advanced stages of her pregnancy. Actually the guy is the old guy with the typewriter.
So Gabriel and survivors will have to confront the creature as we learn more about this woman and about Gabriel's identity.
A horror movie about the homeless sure is uncommon. The question is whether that's something you'll want to see. But then again this movie isn't about the homeless you'll run into in LA, but rather a fairly young and attractive bunch. Problem is setting a movie in a storage facility is rather limiting and also not appealing. The movie does look very good though. There are problems with the audio, often sound effects get in the way of understanding what is being said. But as often happens with movies these day, not a lot is said. There's very little dialogue and so you can't really care about any of the characters. Gabriel makes a weak lead. That's a common problem with characters with mental problems. Things improve when the lovely attendant and her hot friend are on screen. The background story of the villain is pretty good, that's what this movie should have focused more rather than on the various storage facility tenants.
They tried to do something different here but could have done more.
Boring!
I have seen the movie and I should say that I've wasted so much of my time. I was not even impressed by the act of the characters. Sad to say that!
The story revolves around five friends who had a weekend getaway and a veteran who had a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a remote area near a lake. The turn of events showed the killing of those innocent individuals by a sick veteran except for one named Maria who survived and put an end to the bloodshed.
The video quality is good except that directing and the script of the story needs some improvement. They should have included some breath gasping scenes for audience to feel the thrill. This is important when you want to produce a movie of some value. I also observed that the roles of the characters in this movie take away their intelligence, practical experience or common sense. I hate watching characters that are easily decimated without having a good fight or think of a way to escape an ordeal.
My over-all impression is that this movie is some kind of a student project in school, or maybe, this could be a good stepping stone to develop a quality movie in the future.