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Bliss
USA 2019
produced by Joe Begos, Josh Ethier, Lyle Kanouse, Caroline Metz, Graham Skipper, Audrey Wasilewski, Terry Shaikh (executive) for Channel 83 FilmsDora Madison
directed by Joe Begos
starring Tru Collins, Rhys Wakefield, Jeremy Gardner, Graham Skipper, Chris McKenna, Rachel Avery, Mark Beltzman, George Wendt, Abraham Benrubi, Jesse Merlin, Matt Mercer, Josh Ethier, Jackson Birnbaum, Susan Slaughter, Erin Braswell, Zoe Cooper, Simone Wasserman, Kevin Daigneault, Kristin Lorenz
written by Joe Begos, music by Steve Moore
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Dezzy (Dora Madison) is a down on her luck artist who's struggling to
finish her latest painting while her landlord threatens to evict her and
her agent threatens to drop her. And as she can't force her muses to kiss
her just like that, she bums an exceptional drug, Bliss, off a friend -
and pretty much goes on a bender with Courtney (Tru Collins) ... and the
next morning she wakes up at home but has no idea how she got there - but
finds a part of her painting finished. But she's also suffering from a
massive hangover, which she blames firmly on Bliss. But of course it also
leaves her craving for more ... and as a result that night she parties
even wilder - and the last thing she remembers is that on a toilet,
Courtney tore open a woman's throat. Thing is, while shocked, now Dezzy
seems to be craving for blood, and eventually kills all those close to
her, with no remembrance of it the next morning. She meets up with
Courtney again, who tells her the obvious, she has turned her into a
vampire, like it or not - and that puts the two friends very much at odds
with one another, something that can only lead to a blood bath ... Bliss
may not necessarily tell anything new, storywise - actually several modern
vampire movies, first and foremost Abel Ferrara's The
Addiction, readily come to mind -, but it truly brings across its
point with abandon, it's wild, it's loud, it's exaggerated, it's bloody,
it's dirty ... and that way really takes us with its protagonist on her
bizarre trip, gets us into her mindset. Granted, this doesn't always work
as well as planned as sometimes the film seems to try a bit too hard, but
that said, it still takes its audience on a deliciously nightmarish trip.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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