Movie Reviews by “Dr. Alice Skinhead”

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If true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in ‘Blood Rain’, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose ‘Gagee: The Lady’s Tale’. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.