There are several scenes that will stick with viewers because of how disturbing they are. The pacing and ambiguity may be off-putting to some viewers, but Moses takes the old story about friends visiting an isolated cabin and does something unique with it. Who knew, for instance, that blood dripping from a rabbit onto white snow could be so haunting?īleed with Me probably isn’t for everyone. It’s an effective storytelling technique that will again make the viewer question whether or not they should trust Emily, Rowan, or neither character.īleed with Me is not a film that relies heavily on gore or even blood, despite the title, but when blood is shown, it’s used quite well, either to reinforce one of Rowan’s awful visions or to conjure some real world frights. Meanwhile, Moses slowly reveals more character details building to the film’s final act. Several interior shots feature Rowan, sweating and feverish in bed, trapped both by her condition and the cabin’s location. Moses does a fine job establishing a sense of isolation from the get-go, with shots of snow-capped trees and fields of white that surround the cabin. While this may not work for everyone, fans of psychological horror may enjoy Moses’ directorial and narrative choices. It’s never clear to the viewer whether or not Emily can be trusted, and it’s also uncertain whether or not Rowan’s visions are hallucinations that result from her fever.
Her soft-spoken “good girls” are surprisingly as troubling as the visions that Rowan has. Her character slips into Rowan’s room to check her temp and offer her tea. Is Rowan crazy? Is Emily really stealing her blood? I suppose that’s up for the viewer to decide.įor her part, Beatty plays the role quite well. Instead, we’re presented with a blurred vision through Rowan’s perspective. Yet, the camera never shows Emily in focus. She believes that she sees Emily in her bedroom, cutting her wrist to drain her blood. Rowan grows weaker and paler, and her visions become more and more horrific. It’s a deeply unexpected and unsettling moment.įrom there, the rest of the film is slow-burn nightmare fuel. In one of the earliest scenes, Rowan cuts her finger by accident, and Emily licks the blood, proclaiming that she made it all better. Emily bares no fangs, and that makes the film more horrifying. To be clear, this isn’t a vampire narrative. Emily’s boyfriend, Brendan ( Aris Tyros), is caught in the middle.
Each day, Rowan’s condition worsens, and she’s certain that her bestie is to blame. Rowan ( Lee Marshall) suspects that her friend, Emily ( Lauren Beatty), is stealing her blood. Sounds familiar enough, right? However, from there, Moses subverts our expectations. A trio visit an isolated cabin for a winter getaway. Bleed with Me has a premise recognizable to most horror fans, at least initially.
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