Bereavement Review
Bereavement
Reviewed by David Savage
Starring: Alexandra Daddario, Michael Biehn
Directed by: Stevan Mena
Certification: 18
Running Time: 103 minutes (approx.)
Format: DVD
Release Date: 1 October 2012
In 1989 6 year old Martin Bristol (Spencer List) is abducted from his front garden by a deranged psychopath, Graham Sutter (Brett Rickaby) with the promise of a new bike. Martin has a very rare genetic disorder that means he can feel no psychical pain.
Sutter abducts young girls and takes them back to his remote and derelict meat packing plant/farmhouse where he forces Martin to be an unwilling participant in the sacrificial murders making him watch horrific and brutal murders.
After Martin has been missing for 5 years 17 year old Allison Miller (Alexandra Daddario) moves to Pennsylvania, after her parents die in a car crash, to live with her uncle Jonathan Miller (Michael Biehn). She sees young Martin on the farmland and becomes suspicious and enters the property where the nightmare begins.
Will Allison be able to save herself and Martin or will she be sacrificed like the others?
Bereavement is the prequel to Malevolence and is a gory and brutal horror film that is actually horror and not a psychological thriller that horror films seem to be these days. With quotes such as “Stands alongside Halloween and Psycho as one of the best ever made” by Horrormews.net and “Gripping and frightening” by Fangoria, I would agree with gripping and frightening but would not put it in the same bracket as Psycho. If you like lots of blood and brutality in your horror films with a good storyline then this is for you.
Rating: 4/5
Buy on Amazon from 1 October 2012 here.
