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Bloodhound
USA 2020
produced by Parry Shen, Eddie Mui, James Rossi (executive) for Unidentified Productions
directed by Jason Richard Miller
starring Ed Ackerman, David Foy, Miles Dougal, Silvia Moore, Jess Allen, J. Stephen Brady, Phoebe Lamour, Alexandre Chen, Yanni Walker, Amy Tsang, Heather Palmer, Marland Burke, Chris Zerby, Patrick 'Wolfman' Cavanaugh, Kendra Cashmore
written and music by Jason Richard Miller, additional music by David Foy, special makeup effects by Russell FX
review by Mike Haberfelner
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At one of his first assignments, private detective Abel Walker (Ed
Ackerman) had the good fortune to capture the suicide of his employer on
camera - "good" fortune because the footage got him into the
media and provided him with many cases since. Eventually, that got Walker
thinking, why not have a camera guy following him, making a documentary
about him - and enter Jim (David Foy), a cinematographer with a background
in reality TV who's used to think on his feet. Their first assignment
together is a missing persons case, one Bill Augustine (Miles Dougal) is
looking for his ex wife Maria (Silvia Moore), whom he admits to hating
with a passion, but all the same he doesn't want to see her dead. Despite
not everything adding up, Walker is happy to take on the case as it
promises excitement - and soon he and Jim bump into Maria's current lover
Lee (Jess Allen) who almost treats them to a beating before giving them a
clue. But instead of the woman they're supposed to find (Phoebe Lamour),
they only find photographs in which she's tortured in a bloodied bath tub
- and an address. Now Jim is for going to the authorities, but Walker sees
the case as his big chance, and insists on doing it his way - and soon the
two of them run into all kinds of trouble, including a trio of masked
killers they only manage to just escape - but eventually they do find
Maria. Only, the resolution of the story is not what you might think ... To
film a hard-boiled detective drama found footage style doesn't seem like
the most obvious choice, but it actually makes sense in Bloodhound,
basically because the first person approach is worked into the plot rather
than tagged on to have an excuse for making the movie on the cheap, the
film doesn't follow the rules of the found footage genre to rigourously
and time and again goes for a cinematic approach, it's in a good way
old-fashioned in creating suspense rather than substitute it with shaky
handheld camerawork, and it's well-written and features fleshed out
characters portrayed by a solid cast. So the outcome is actually a pretty
exciting film that's well worth a look.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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