Blood Harvest (2023, directed by Danny LeGare)


“You have no idea the sacrifice I have made for this land!” Uncle Ollie (Greg Nutcher) yells when his family complain about life on the farm.  They’re about to find out, though.

The audience will figure it out before Neil (Troy Escoda) and his clairovoyant son, Jake (Ian Hernandez-Oropeza).  As soon as they arrive at the farm, Jake starts having visions of sacrifices and women having their tongues cut out.  It’s easy to figure out what the farmers in the town due to ensure that they’ll have a good crop but no one in the movie is as smart as those of us watching at home.

The movie probably would have been scarier if I could have actually heard or understood half the dialogue.  The film’s sound quality is terrible.  I even checked my hearing aid to make sure that it wasn’t a problem on my end.  Some of the dialogue has been obviously dubbed.  Some scenes are too loud.  Some scenes you can’t hear anything at all.

There’s not much of a story here so everything gets dragged out.  “Have you wondered why there are no children her!?” Uncle Ollie yells while swinging around an axe.  Nah, Ollie, we figure it out a while ago.