Bloomfield

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Elaine is nearly eighteen years old when both her parents are killed in a road accident. She is taken to live with her only relative, an aunt with whom she has had no previous contact. Her new home is Hickville, USA, although it is called a town, it has less than a hundred inhabitants. "Bloomfield" has been likened to "Rosemary's Baby". Whether or not that is a fair comparison, it is extremely confusing with flashbacks and/or dream sequences. Yes, there is an element of horror to it, but it helps if the plot is relatively easy to follow, if indeed there is a plot. Seriously, this could have been much better, but it fails whichever way you look at it.

I'll keep this to the point, I watch a LOT of horror movies, it's one of my favorite genres, and this movie fails rather spectacularly on almost all fronts. The narration is done entirely with an almost comically overdone southern drawl, scenes will just hang on nothing happening for way too long, most of the actors seem like they're reading their lines for the first time there on set, and no one seems connected to the world around them. Not to mention how noticeable it is when they clearly pulled in random crew members to fill out a scene. The basic idea of the story is also a very generic "small town is secretly a cult", something that can be enjoyable at least, but this is incredibly paint by numbers. It's not even so bad it's funny, it's just frustratingly boring.