Blood Rage (1987)

Director: John Grissmer

Starring: Louise Lasser, Mark Soper, Julie Gordon

A boy kills a man and accuses his twin brother of the murder, and the innocent brother ends up institutionalized, while his psychotic twin goes free. 10 years later, the innocent twin escapes, which triggers his brother into killing again.

‘Blood Rage’ is also known as ‘Slasher’.

When they were just kids still, Terry brutally murdered a guy, and blamed it on his twin brother Todd. Ten years later, Todd is still in a mental institution, while Terry leads a normal life. When Todd escapes from the institution, things are about to change…

There really is nothing interesting happening here. This is indeed a mindless slasher, and I became bored. Characters are added purely for the kill, with mostly silly dialogue. The film mostly revolve around horny characters constantly talking about sex but, never has sex. And then there’s the killings, off course. The kill scenes are very gory, but not all that well done.

The acting is bad. The directing is bad. It features slasher cliche upon slasher cliche – only badly done. There is no flesh to the bone, except maybe for the ‘confusion’ between the two brothers. (I must admit Mark Soper wasn’t all that bad playing both roles).

The film lacked on so many levels. Ultimately, it wasn’t worth watching, and rather forgettable. (From another point of view, I suppose one could view this as a character study. But I just wasn’t interested).

Would I watch it again? No.