There are a few moments where Bloody Murder tries to copy Scream and be a postmodern slasher film that signals its own self-awareness of the genre it rests in. The film arrives at an ending that tosses up multiple potential suspects as the killer, giving the eventual one improbably contrived motivation, followed by a twist ending showing that it was someone else who was doing the killing. Portillo throws in a few deaths – one victim speared with arrows on an archery range, another having their throat slit while bending over to change a tire – but nothing terribly exciting. There are all the usual cliche moves of the slasher film – the tiresome round of practical jokers pretending to be the killer and so on. The Jason-lookalike killer stalks a victim This is never more clearly signalled than a scene where a couple are caught making out in the woods and she remains wearing a bra and panties throughout the scene. (Almost all of the modern slasher films to a fault have dropped the numerous naked teens that appear as victims in the originals). Perhaps as a result of this, we get a slasher film that is much tamer and more chaste than Friday the 13th and the numerous copycats and sequels of the 1980s.
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Portillo has also made other horror films including Fever Lake (1996), One of Them (2003), Diary of a Serial Killer (2008) and Kemper (2008), and surprisingly, considering his Christian interests elsewhere, several erotic films including Broken Trust (1993) and the Shannon Tweed thriller Naked Lies (1998), while he has also produced Bare Witness (2002). It is a scratch of the head though wondering what an Evangelical Christian is doing making slasher movies. On the company’s website, Portillo proudly proclaims the fact that he is a Christian and espouses Family Values. More interestingly, Portillo is the president of a production company entitled Power in Faith that has been set up to make Christian-themed films and has produced the likes of Believers Among Us (2005), Becoming Jesse Tate (2009), Angels Love Donuts (2010) and Salvation Street (2015). There is even the crazy old timer who pops up around the camp to give warnings about the dangers in these here woods.ĭirector Ralph Portillo has made a variety of independent and not particularly well known films, which have usually been children’s films such as Big Brother Trouble (2000), The Ghost Club (2003) and Undercover Kids (2004). The location of the lakeside summer camp and the camp counsellors on a training exercise have all been directly photocopied from Friday the 13th. In this respect, Bloody Murder is essentially a rehash of Friday the 13th (1980).
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Bloody Murder emerged as one of the attempts in the late 1990s/early 00s to rework the slasher movie following the success of Scream (1996) and its witty deconstruction of the genre’s cliches.
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