2/10
Terrible low budget horror rubbish.
1 August 2009
Warning: Spoilers
The Death Factory Bloodletting starts as a woman named Alexa (Michelle Mousel) prepares for the experience of a lifetime, using contacts on the hardcore underground website Goremaster she has paid to be witness to what is called a 'bloodletting'. Basically someone is murdered while a group of select individuals get to watch, along with Alexa there's an anarchist, S&M fetishists, a slave trader & a kiddie porn lover. They have all been taken to an abandoned brick making factory where the bloodletting is due to take place but little do they realise that it's a trap & some religious nut & his dwarf nephew have set up, using a mutant female creature with metal claws to kill the various whores, deviants & sinners justice will be served...

Co-photographed, co-written, co-produced & directed by Sean Tretta this is a pretty crap low budget horror film, although Tretta made Death Factory (2002) several years earlier The Death Factory Bloodletting isn't a sequel as far as I could tell since the whole story of the mutant creature is different as is the plot & the events of the original are never mentioned or even hinted at. The script feels like a Saw II (2005) rip-off in which a groups of sinners are trapped in some building getting killed off one by one by some Jigsaw style orchestrator who speaks to them through loudspeakers. Unfortunately that's where the comparisons with Saw II ends as there's no traps, clever plot twists or inventive kills as there's just this female woman with sharp claws running around killing them off teen slasher style. Another problem with The Death Factory Bloodletting are the horrible character's, they are all so unlikable you want them to die & don't care for them at all which is a problem because a film really needs some sort of central character to emphasise with. There's also some mention of snuff films & underground websites where anything goes but it's not effective, disturbing or thought provoking in the slightest & in fact the Nicholas Cage thriller 8MM (1995) did a much better, seedier & memorable job of delving into the taboo subject matters raised. Death Factory Bloodletting is boring, extremely predictable, overlong, poorly written rubbish that tries to be extreme & but ends up rather tame with little more than some fake blood being splashed on walls.

The gore levels are pretty tame here, all the attacks consist of slashing & clawing with some blood splashing on a nearby wall. There are no actual gore effects here to speak of. There's a little nudity with some bare breasts but nothing you will remember. There are no scares either with no build up to anything that happens.

Filmed in Phoenix in Arizona in an old factory this looks cheap because it was cheap. The acting sucks right across the board & why did the two best looking birds have to be the first to die? The Death Factory Bloodletting is a terrible low budget horror film that feels like a boring Saw II that tries to use controversial subject matter to shock even more but it all comes across as rubbish & very tame frankly. Heres hoping a third Death Factory film never gets made.
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