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Scorned

Annalynne Mccord plays an unhinged young woman who discovers her boyfriend (Billy 'stop phoning my house' Zane) is cheating on her with her best friend (viva Bianca) Luring her mate out, pretending to be her fella she spends the evening indulging in little cruelty that quickly spirals out of control into full blown murder.
Scorned is a fun little film in spite of its many flaws. Directed by Mark Jones, director of a personal favourite of mine Leprechaun delivers a trashy revenge picture that moves a little to much into 'torture porn' territory. Mccord however delivers a great, eye rolling performance as the scorned woman and for a couple of quid in a charity shop the film was worth the punt IMO.

13 Eerie

Another cheapie, this was a whole quid and money well spent. Essentially it nicks the premise for the underrated Renny Harlin flick mindhunters as a group of trainee forensic investigators head out to the middle of nowhere to do a little live training with real bodies. Unfortunately the place is a disused prison where the government had been doing some clandestine experiments with the inmates and left behind loads of barrels of toxic goop that has a pesky habit of resurrecting the dead.
Eerie 13 is no classic, and the opening 25 minutes or so are a little dull, with some underwritten characters. A real shame in that regard as we get some decent talent in the film including the lovely Katherine Isabelle. Once the film finds its feet its actually pretty entertaining with some decent bloody effects work including some bloody deaths and fairly well realised zombies/mutants. Worth picking up.

Blue blood

A bit more retro for the last film of the evening. Set in Longleat where the BBC had the long running wild animal park show, the film comes across as a mixture of upstairs downstairs & The wicker man. Derek Jacobi plays the lord of the manor, a decadent drug fuelled fop who seems to love shagging about in order to get as many sons as possible. Fiona Lewis plays his long suffering pop star wife and Oliver Reed plays the menacing cokney butler (whose accent occasionally sounds south African!) The butler seems to be the one holding the household together and seems to have some level of bullying dominant power over his ineffectual boss. In to the mix comes a German Nanny who seems to be aware of some possible satanic influence the Butler possesses with constant visons of weird red tinted rituals Ollie is holding. Worse still the lords two children are showing signs of abuse.
Blue blood is a difficult film to pin down. Large portions of the film are dedicated to the day to day running of the stately home, mixed in with undercurrents of real menace. The film seems to deliberately unravel as things progress with booze and drug fuelled debauchery, rape and violence with the butler seemingly at the centre of it all. It also feels a little like a really pitch black comedy of manners, as if the film was some kind of test run for Chris morris's JAM. Its an odd bird of a film but worth catching if you can.