Maddy has a pair of twins who witness her in a drive-in making out with her boyfriend. One of the twins snaps and commits a vicious murder and frames the other twin who is in shock. The twin gets wrongfully put in an asylum. 10 years later, on thanksgiving night, the institutionalized twin escapes while the actually insane twin goes on a rampage.
Blood Rage clocks in at a lean 82 minutes but it feels longer because of annoyingly dragged out scenes of Maddy (Louise Lasser) undergoing a steady nervous breakdown which is portrayed via such exciting scenes as her binging food at night, drinking a lot of wine, and cleaning up her room and the oven. The slasher section is more successful with a shocking (For late-80s) amount of gore. Mark Soper does a fine job differentiating between the twins. He is shown a bit too much as a slasher villain. There was never any attempt at portraying a mystery killer but I appreciate it if a killer is kept in the shadows rather than showing him too much.
After a sagging middle, Blood Rage picks up a lot towards the end with a great conclusion where Louise Lasser goes into full meltdown mode and it works because it finally serves the story. On the whole, Blood Rage is an entertaining slasher with a good story, great kills, and a wonderful soundtrack by Richard Einhorn. But beware of the Nightmare at Shadow Woods version which has almost all the gore edited out. Watch the uncut version titled Slasher.
Worth a watch!
Rating-7/10.
Blood Rage clocks in at a lean 82 minutes but it feels longer because of annoyingly dragged out scenes of Maddy (Louise Lasser) undergoing a steady nervous breakdown which is portrayed via such exciting scenes as her binging food at night, drinking a lot of wine, and cleaning up her room and the oven. The slasher section is more successful with a shocking (For late-80s) amount of gore. Mark Soper does a fine job differentiating between the twins. He is shown a bit too much as a slasher villain. There was never any attempt at portraying a mystery killer but I appreciate it if a killer is kept in the shadows rather than showing him too much.
After a sagging middle, Blood Rage picks up a lot towards the end with a great conclusion where Louise Lasser goes into full meltdown mode and it works because it finally serves the story. On the whole, Blood Rage is an entertaining slasher with a good story, great kills, and a wonderful soundtrack by Richard Einhorn. But beware of the Nightmare at Shadow Woods version which has almost all the gore edited out. Watch the uncut version titled Slasher.
Worth a watch!
Rating-7/10.