Going somewhere remote to clear your head and finish writing a horror movie already sounds like the setup for a bad decision. In Blood Shine, that writing retreat leads straight into captivity, religious obsession, and the promise of becoming something supposedly divine.
Psychological cult horror film Blood Shine arrives in select theaters and on Digital/VOD today, August 21, from Dark Sky Films. The film is directed by Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks, with Bennett starring alongside David Call and Larry Fessenden.
The story takes us to a remote farmhouse in upstate New York, where Clara lives an isolated life consumed by her religious devotion. She worships light through private sacred rituals, but things take a much darker turn when troubled horror filmmaker Brighton West enters her life.
Brighton has come to the country to finish the screenplay for his next movie. Instead, his encounter with Clara ends with him becoming her captive. She believes her increasingly sadistic rituals can transform him into a god, pulling Brighton into a hallucinatory nightmare of faith, flesh, and obsession.
It's a pretty nasty setup, especially because Blood Shine isn't simply throwing its filmmaker into the hands of someone trying to kill him. Clara believes there's a higher purpose behind what she's doing, which makes the prospect of being trapped alone with her considerably more unsettling.
If religious horror, cults, psychological torment, and isolated farmhouse nightmares are your thing, you can catch Blood Shine in select theaters or watch it at home beginning today. The film is available digitally, including through Amazon VOD.
