Review of Bereavement (2010) by Martyn M — 02 Mar 2016

A psycopath suffering from schizophrenia abducts a young male child to help him to regularly clean his place up, and he has a lot of cleaning to do, his abducter is a mysogynistic abducterer and killer of young women. He convieniently lives alone (as they usually do in these slash and hack films) in his inherited former meat packing plant. Ideal if you want to exist as a ruthless misogynistic psycopathic murderer.

After 5 years of witnessing and receiving this abhorent education, the child develops an unemotional detatchment to the surroundings - the smells and the dirt and also to the fate of the victims of this gruesome individual. And this cold detachment further develops into an emotionless indifference to the inflicting of pain to himself. The making of another psycopath.

A film that is trying to get around an excuse to hack and slash the cast to bits by having some semblance of a decent story. Brett Rickarby is commendable as the psycopath Sutter, bringing out the mindset of a schizophreniac in a set of monologues that lifts the film out of the usual routine for this type of film.

For the rest of it, it's the usual expectation: plenty of the usual blood, guts and other nasty stuff to keep horror fans engrosed. Others might prefer something a little less frightening.