Summer Matthews (Ashley Greene) has runaway from home in order to find her father. Having learned that her mother has lied to her about her father, and lied to him as well about Summer, she has decided to pack and leave. We find Summer as she gets a ride to small town of Massey, where she believes her father lives. She doesn't have a name, but does have a picture she hopes someone might be able to point her in the right direction with. Not long after getting into town though, she gets caught stealing some food and makes a break from it. Tom (Peter Mooney) happens to be outside and helps her get away. Summer rewards him by having sex with him, intending to leave the next day. Tom, who lives with his mom Gaia (Barbara Niven), has other ideas.
I was surprised that my neighbor actually enjoyed Summer's Blood. A lot of movies that I really enjoyed, they hated simply because they were too slow. That is how I saw this movie, a slow paced film. It had its moments to be sure, but for the most part it felt like they built the plot around a general idea. Once they had that, it was just a matter of expanding it to become a full length film, which is where I felt Summer's Blood didn't work too well. Starts off with Summer being very feisty, then at the mid way point she became very quiet and let Tom control her and such. I know that can happen in real life, but really it wasn't working for me. Maybe it was the opening scene with Summer hitching and the guy ending up being a bit of a perv. It felt very cliche to me. I liked that Summer never completely gave up, but at the same time, there were plenty of times she could have gotten away and didn't try. Things got a little more interesting once Stephen McHattie shows up, but even then I still felt bored with it. As many have pointed out, the ending left a lot to be desired as well.
The kills take place off camera, but there is still some blood to be found. The biggest one is when someone gets shot. Big blood splatter on that one. It didn't make a lot of sense though since I feel it was possible for the person getting the blood might have also gotten the bullet. Bullets tend to go on through a head, more so when they come from a rifle, which it did since the person got hit by a lot of blood. I guess that is my forensics training kicking in though. The acting was okay. I wasn't real impressed with Ashley Greene, but I feel that may have had more to do with her character, and not so much her acting. Peter Mooney does a good job of being weird without over selling it. Stephen McHattie was the best actor to me in this one.
There is sort of a sub plot that runs through most of the movie of a guy looking for his daughter. You can probably guess where the daughter is, as I did, before they ever showed her. It might as well not be there since it doesn't help move the main plot along at all. It does help Summer try and escape, so I guess there is that, but director Lee Demarbre probably could have found different ways to do that. I wasn't really bored with Summer's Blood, but I wasn't into it either. Some people seem to really like this one though, people besides my neighbor that is. I can't get myself to call it a bad film. It just wasn't for me I guess. If it sounds interesting to you then I say give it a shot. Just because I didn't care for it doesn't mean you will feel the same after all.
2 out of 5 Don't see how either title fits this movie
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