Blood Machines

Okay, so it's got lots of female nudity. And weird inverted crosses. And pentagonal roses? And the coolest laser guns I've seen since laser guns were put in movies. And sweet space ship designs. And a monstrously impressive sound track. And absolutely no coherent script to explain much of any of this. Something something machine revolt? Feminist power? I don't know.

It's like a 14 year old dropped acid and made his fantasies into a featurette. Except with a better FX budget and musical score.

Well worth a watch, just expect a long form experimental music video instead of an actual story. And what a music video it is.

(I'd also recommend people check out the music video for Turbo Killer elsewhere (you can guess where) to get more-of-the-same, but in a SFW and shorter form)

The imagery and atmosphere of this mini-series is jaw-dropping. Think Blade Runner meets Mandy meets Star Wars, and you'll have an idea (sort of) of what this is.

Beyond that, the plot is borderline nonsensical. It has to do with an AI manifesting as a weird demigod entity, and I'm sure there's some kind of commentary embedded in it that has to do with humanity's relationship to machines/religion/etc., but it's way too abstract.

Ultimately, this movie is best experienced as a visual feast, and that's about it. If you try to extract anything larger from it, you'll get caught up in an endless game of "maybe this is symbolism" that doesn't really go anywhere.

I'd love to see what this director could do with a well written script.

Appallingly bad dialogue,cookie cutter tropes and some overdirected performances all played dead straight for 50minutes. As a piece of storytelling it's simply terrible,but the effects look cool and well made and Carpenter Brut's music slaps. It'll give it a 5 for those as a pity score cause otherwise this is really dull and pathetic to watch.

I'm sure Seth Ickerman was trying to say something here about patriarchal control over women and machine and how they are alike. If it was any more than that then it was probably lost to bong resin. Visually it's like a Heavy Metal magazine made kinky After Effects sex to a prog rock album cover. I mean that in the best possible way. Narratively it tries a little too hard to mean something but without actually saying anything, like bad anime fan fiction, or just anime period. I'll keep an eye on Ickermans career... hopefully he let's other people do the writing... or at least gets better at it. Direction.. I dont know, give him a decent script.. and I'll make my call then. Eventhough my opinion doesn't really matter.

I'm glad this exists I just wish it was better. .

The good , the bad, the awesome:

the good: VISUALS / VFX / MUSICS are seriously amazing!

the bad: turn this super short into 3 parts is a bad idea. the story is just ... nhaaa ... there is almost none.

the awesome: IF you watch this short like a video clip, THEN you get a masterpiece. It is one of the best "exercise of style" i have ever seen.

thanks for this, i get a very good time watching Blood Machines. You really need to give us more! SO Much more!