Bloomfield

Not your usual movie, not a blockbuster, not a bad movie either. I'm quite impressed by the quality of the story and the acting. The aunt is really something! I'd recommend it!

As I write this, there are 6 reviews posted for this flick. 5 rate it 8 or above; 1 rates it a 2. That's a pretty big gap and, having seen the movie, I can only guess that the positive reviews are less than objective.

The writer, director, and lead actress on this project is a decent enough actress, and not unpleasant to look at. I can't honestly compliment her directing and writing skills based on this effort.

The remainder of the cast ranged from hammy to amateur. The main antagonist, narrating with a comically overdone stereotype of a southern drawl, kept reminding me of Catherine O'Hara doing Moira Schitt's crow movie, but without Ms. O'Hara's wit or class.

As for the plot, the other honest reviewer here stated that "it took forever for the narrative to go nowhere," and I can't think of a better way to put it. The flick just went on and on, but never progressed. Slow and unoriginally derivative, watching paint dry is more satisfying, and about a suspenseful. Same amount of horror, too.

What is different between this movie and watching paint dry is that the latter doesn't hint at a sequel as this movie did, which was about as horrific as anything to be found here. Just say no.

Move along people; nothing to see here.

Being a fan of indie horror it's always fun watching someone fresh bring their vision to you.

Bloomfield does an amazing job slowly unwinding it's tale paying off with top rate suspense.

The acting feels genuine it's easy to get lost in this community of friendly faces without a friend.

Absolutely worthy of the awards director Brianna Young and actress Jennifer Moriarty are picking up at the festivals, the rest of the crew putting out an incredible effort as well, I really look forward to the next films this director and crew put out.

Elaine is nearly eighteen years old when both her parents are killed in a road accident. She is taken to live with her only relative, an aunt with whom she has had no previous contact. Her new home is Hickville, USA, although it is called a town, it has less than a hundred inhabitants.

"Bloomfield" has been likened to "Rosemary's Baby". Whether or not that is a fair comparison, it is extremely confusing with flashbacks and/or dream sequences. Yes, there is an element of horror to it, but it helps if the plot is relatively easy to follow, if indeed there is a plot. Seriously, this could have been much better, but it fails whichever way you look at it.

Without ever having heard anything about this 2020 horror movie titled "Bloomfield" from writer and director Brianna Young, then I had the opportunity to sit down and watch it.

Now, I must say that when a movie is written, directed and starring one and the same person, then chances are that you will be in for a lousy movie experience. Sad to say, but the track record just has that tendency. So I wasn't really harboring much of any expectations to "Bloomfield" when I saw that this was one of those movies with the writer, director and star being the same person.

Still, giving "Bloomfield" the benefit of the doubt, I sat down to watch it. And boy was that a mistake on my part. "Bloomfield" is insanely slow paced, monotonous and actually downright pointless and boring.

I found no entertainment in the storyline simply because it took forever in the narrative to go nowhere. So yeah, there was just nothing to enjoy here. And it didn't really help much that the character gallery in the movie was about as interesting as something constructed in a kindergarten arts and crafts class.

As for "Bloomfield" being a horror movie, well that definitely depends on how abstract your definition of the word horror goes.

I am rating "Bloomfield" a generous two out of ten stars.