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Canada · 2021
1h 22m
Director Amelia Moses
Starring Lauren Beatty, Greg Bryk, Katharine King, Michael Ironside
Genre Horror
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Grey is an indie singer who is having difficulty writing her sophomore album. When she gets an invitation to work with notorious music producer Vaughn Daniels at his remote studio in the woods, they quickly form a bond. Though their bond strengthens her music, it also alters Grey’s body and mind irreparably.
If you were to rewrite the first five minutes of Bloodthirsty and left everything else the exact same, you’d have a perfect movie. As it stands, thanks to atmospheric directing, mostly good writing, and a brilliant cast, you have a very good one that is high on the creep factor populated with likeable, engaging characters.
Within its modest boundaries, Bloodthirsty does a creditable enough job balancing supernatural suspense with the drama of a young artist’s insecurities at a key early career juncture.
Canadians already made the definitive young-woman-turned-werewolf movie, with 2000’s Ginger Snaps, which is a bar to clear if Bloodthirsty is to make an impression on veteran horror fans. But the pop music angle, an LGBT angle, and a studio Svengali who lives in a mansion in the woods, gives Bloodthirsty some points for fresh twists.
Austin Chronicle by Richard Whittaker
In her first feature, Bleed With Me, director Amelia Moses used vampirism as a tool to explore toxic friendships: in Bloodthirsty, it's clear that the lycanthropic fate that awaits Grey is less than metaphorical.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Bloodthirsty isn’t as deep or dark as it needs to be, and that’s way more frustrating than its general lack of werewolves.
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