Matcollis
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
Tockinit
not horrible nor great
Pacionsbo
Absolutely Fantastic
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
jlthornb51
Well done horror film that blows the lid off Big Pharmaceutical as well. Travis Van Winkle gives a superb performance as a college student participating in an allergy study, placing himself in the hands of sinister representatives of an evil drug company. The study is one of the most diabolical ever conceived in cinema and reflects major truths regarding the industry. Trish Helfer is stunning and does some of her best work in years as the attracts Van Winkle's character to the program with completely evil intent. The tension builds quickly and the horrors which ensue are almost too much to comprehend in their terror. Overall, a fine film that is not without its flaws but which is much more than just a horror movie. What this production has to say about society's dominance by pharmaceutical fascists is profoundly true and needs to be exposed.
a_baron
In 2006, a medical trial at a London hospital went terribly wrong; six young men suffered grotesque side-effects, and one needed all his toes and several fingertips amputated. Whether or not "Bloodwork" was inspired by that horrific happenstance, this one works, big time.Two students volunteer for a two week medical trial attracted by a payment of over three thousand dollars. They are led to believe this is a routine experiment developing a common or garden medicine, but of course it is not. Rather the researchers are testing a wonder drug that has magical healing properties. Suffice it to say as with the aforementioned Northwick Park trial these volunteers experience unexpected side-effects, in particular of a psychological nature. Well, perhaps not totally unexpected.When one of our heroes puts two and two together, he wants out, but the other participants are bribed to stay on, and he is falsely imprisoned. The scientist running the project is told she must expedite matters, and of course this can only make things worse."Bloodwork" has it all: drama, humour, the odd bare breast, action, morality play, science fiction and horror all rolled into one, complete with an ambiguous ending.
Raul Faust
From the get go this movie could be either good or bad, I couldn't prevent which way it would go. Sadly it turned out to be the bad way. First, actors don't fit in their roles-- two athletic guys going to a two weeks confinement for testing an unknown drug? The main doctor, a young and beautiful girl, plays the mad scientist, which obviously doesn't fit as well. This main plot has been used plenty of times, but I believed this one could bring something new. Instead, it used some clichés, and suddenly, by 20 or 30 minutes of movie, the drug testers all became acting like pigs and addicted to the substance. Surely we all knew from the beginning it would a big conspiracy from the drug makers, but we hoped it could possibly go in a different way. I assume that after the first hour I could barely pay any attention to this, but I tried my best to try to like it. Bad movie anyways.
alex (doorsscorpywag)
It's an interesting idea. Some people take part in a drug trial in a creepy industrial kind of building cum hospital. Of course the drug causes all manner of side effects which end up with people snout deep in gore. In the hands of a decent writer and a bunch of decent actors it might have actually worked. Sadly it has neither so it didn't.Travis Van Winkle, who is probably a relative of Rip, provides some light relief as 'Greg' but the cast are pretty dull and boring. Even the one playing 'Johnny Depp' playing 'Captain Jack Sparrow' could not drag it above the level of DVD bargain bin '3 for £5' tripe. It does have the odd moment that could have ended up interesting but again didn't manage to capitalise on that.The horror stuff was the usual zombie flesh eater type of thing minus the zombies or 'Walkers' as I believe zombies are now known in the USA.Eric Roberts appears for no reason other than the DVD cover can claim to star Eric Roberts. Why? Probably because he had a gas bill to pay or something. The ending was laughable as Eric and his 'less than' elite team come in to clean up the mess and fail miserably enabling the utterly terrifying possibility of a Bloodwork #2 likely starring Eric Roberts.It is beyond me how these awful films even manage to make back their few thousand bucks budget but the DVD racks are full of this kind of useless waste of 90 minutes garbage. Maybe it's because the gullible film audience falls for it every time. I am embarrassed to admit I did once again.
