{"id":30403,"date":"2019-02-07T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30403"},"modified":"2019-02-07T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T23:59:03","slug":"blood-runs-down-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/blood-runs-down-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Runs Down (2017) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brd.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brd-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/brd-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cFlesh and Blood\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Zandashe\u0301 Brown\u2019s Southern Gothic horror short is a beautifully directed narrative that explores the complex and sometimes darker relationships of mothers and daughters and the stresses of raising a child on one\u2019s own. \u201cBlood Runs Down\u201d has some wonderful imagery and genuinely unsettling moments of terror it\u2019s just mired by ambiguity that makes the overall film somewhat confusing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Told through three chapters, Idella Johnson and Farrah Martin play Mother Elise and her daughter Ana, both of whom live alone in a small house. The night before Ana\u2019s birthday, Elize is anxious to make sure everything is in order for a wonderful celebration. Exhausted and somewhat worn out from the consistent care of her daughter, Elize retreats to the bathroom for a warm bath, but when Ana gets up from bed to try on her birthday dress, Elize undergoes a scary transition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Much of \u201cBlood Runs Down\u201d is left to interpretation, as we can never be sure what\u2019s happening is based more around specters manifested from stress, or just symbolism for some kind of mental illness suffered by Elize. Regardless, the transition by Elize is disturbing thanks to the bang up performance by Idella Johnson. Farrah Martin is also quite excellent as the young Ana forced to grow up when she realizes that she may have to defend herself from her slowly deteriorating mother.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reveal in the climax, there\u2019s not a ton of explanation as to what so much of the imagery means, especially the shifts in the narrative signified by titles like \u201cIdolatry\u201d and \u201cGrief.\u201d So\u2014did Elize pass on to the afterlife? Was Ana stuck in a purgatory? Was it both? In either case, what is made clear in the climax is somewhat beautiful exploration of the complications of single motherhood and the complexities of having grow up very quickly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFlesh and Blood\u201d Shorts Block Director Zandashe\u0301 Brown\u2019s Southern Gothic horror short is a beautifully directed narrative that explores the complex and sometimes darker relationships of mothers and daughters and the stresses of raising a child on one\u2019s own. \u201cBlood Runs Down\u201d has some wonderful imagery and genuinely unsettling moments of terror it\u2019s just mired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[302,477,501,703,938,1087],"class_list":["post-30403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-drama","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30405,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30403\/revisions\/30405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}