The issue is that whilst we get to see some stalking, a few (not overly gory) attacks and them cutting up meats, we get little in the way of horror level gore and no real feeding scenes (though we see them serve a cooked heart to hotel guests). There has to be more that isn’t explained as Lydia also lures Ryan to the island and so she must have some insight, though apparently not enough to simply know who is definitely bad and who is good. The sisters feed a drink to guests, which causes their secrets to come out, though they can also charm the stories with song, and they then eat the evil-doers. It is readily explained that Lydia sent the text (and we also discover that should one of the sisters leave it will mean the death for all three – though I suspect that actually meant their immortality would end, otherwise why would any of them choose to leave). Then he gets a text message from her saying ‘Rescue me’ and so goes to the island where she runs a guest house with her sisters. So, long story short (though to be fair the film is quite short at 74 minutes), he becomes concerned when he hears strange things when Callie is on the phone to him and then cuts off contact. He has met and is falling for a woman online – she happens to be Callie.
Thomas Howell, Kindred the Embraced, Blood Wars, Mutant Vampire Zombies from the Hood & Justice League: Gods and Monsters). Sometime later he is struggling with his job as a food critic as he can only face vegetarian food (much to his editor’s chagrin), not even when cooked by friend Ryan (C. When he eventually comes round, in hospital three days later, he discovers that Annie is dead, murdered. He goes downstairs to throw the heart in the bin and someone clubs him from behind with a wrench. He drops a heart she asks for and his comment makes it clear they have had relationship problems. We get a scene with Chef Annie (Chloe Partridge) who is cooking whilst husband Dan (Matt Silver) looks on. Whilst the sketches show them with wings, in film they only have human form. But they abandon her and Hades kidnaps her and so the Gods fling the sisters to a distant island (somewhere off Britain) and turn them into the “ravenous” sirens. With sketches and some stills of the sirens themselves we are told of three sisters, in film revealed as Callie (Rikke Leigh), Lydia (Eloise Juryeff) and Tess (Helen Rule), tasked with accompanying (and, through that company, protecting) Persephone. It starts with an artist, drawing on a rocky shoreline as he narrates for us the legend of the sirens – this fellow narrates a few times through the film. It is certainly of genre interest but just missed out having that definite V factor for me. Maybe it was the hastily explained lore vs very little observable flesh eating. Unfortunately, it came out a little less than a definitive genre pic, despite flesh eating. To be fair, it isn't exactly so appalling that it's unwatchable, and I guess it's charming in its own way because of that, but most people will find it a boring watch.This Benedict Mart film from 2016 was one that I really wanted to be a straight-out vampire flick – though I know before watching it that it features sirens. The dialogue is awful, the characters and their motivations are questionable, the special effects are laughable and the story sounds like ten other films you've likely seen before. It's nothing particularly noteworthy or great, even though it does feature an early bit from Lilyan Chauvin, who gained noteriety as the oppresive nun in Silent Night, Deadly Night, but that doesn't save the film as she's featured very little and not that great in it anyway. Most describe the film as The Most Dangerous Game with teenagers, and it's pretty much that. Wilton Graff's performance lacks the grit and sheer internal ferocity that Charles Laughton had in Island of the Lost Souls. His performance is actually the best in the film, and that isn't saying much really.
Bloodlust! is mostly noteworthy because it contains an early performance from Robert Reed, who would go on to play the dad in The Brady Bunch. This is a double-edged sword though because creativity didn't always equal talent. I love exploring older cinema, particularly B movies wherein most of the creativity seemed to be contained.
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