This week ECHG writer Adam Holtzapfel takes a look at More Blood! the new documentary celebrating genre fans love of horror.
Director Heidi Moore and OSI 74 present More Blood! Give Us Gore and Give Us Death. Clocking in at close to 2 hours this documentary is packed with views on the scene and fans fascination with gore from filmmakers, fx artists, journalists, and more!
More Blood! Director Heidi Moore
The documentary starts out with interviewees talking about the first scene or film they remember scaring them ranging from classics like Cannibal Holocaust and Evil Dead to foreign films like Guinea Pig: Flower Of Flesh And Blood.
From there it evolves into how The Exorcist was influential due to religious people seeing the film and it truly scaring the shit out of them. There’s also mention of how FX artist Macus Koch is working on films like the American Guinea Pig films and how those would have never been though of in the 70’s and how they would have never flown in the 80’s or 90’s. Kind of a progression of how desensitized the fans have become.
Panelists include Tom Komisar & Daniel Murphy (HM&M Films), Jason Thompson (Bad Seed FX), Lloyd Kauffman, and more.
While the run time seems long, this was an enjoyable documentary. Ranging from what scares the panelists to how desensitized people have become to how do you top what’s been done before to scare the audience. I’d recommend this to anyone looking for some new recommendations of classics they may have forgotten about.
My only complaint is the documentary is peppered with commercials for horror hosts and Sleazy P Martini. That could have saved anywhere from 10-20 minutes on the run time without sacrificing the quality of the film.
Pair this with Just Desserts, Doc Of The Dead, and Nightmares in Red, White, & Blue: The Evolution Of The American Horror Film for a night of horrorcentric documentaries.
Adopting the Dead On Movie Reviews letter rating system I’d give this a B- for the commercials and run time.
