Spirit in the Blood (2024) (2024)

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• Review by shookone ½

  a film so ashamed of itself that it not only left off the actors, but also the writer and director in the opening credits. horrendous as all they delivered maybe a sensible decision.

• Review by Ailti ★

  🇩🇪Deutsche Review ist Unten⬇️⬇️⬇️
  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸The plot revolves around 15-year-old Emerson (played by Summer H. Howell), who moves with her family to a remote, deeply religious community in Canada.Shortly after her arrival, a young girl is found dead.While the authorities assume a predator attack, Emerson believes she has seen a monster in the woods.Together with her new friend Delilah (Sarah-Maxine Racicot) and other girls from the community, Emerson is convinced that a gruesome creature dwells in the woods.The group decides to fight the supposed evil by performing rituals of their own devising.The deeper they get involved in these practices, however, the more they unleash their own inner demons.

  Unfortunately, this is what happens when a horror/thriller gets German funding.Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg…

• Review by Kathleen ½ 2

  Was für eine Verschwendung der Gelder der deutschen Filmförderung

  Der Film kann sich nicht entscheiden, welches Genre es bedienen möchte
  Ist es ein coming-of-age, ein mystery thriller oder ein teenage horror Streifen.

  Von den schlechten, wirklich schlechten Dialogen, rede ich gar nicht; genauso wenig über Aktionen einzelner Personen im Film, die einfach nur ohne Zusammenhang daher kommen.

  Sicherlich hätte man aus der Thematik der beiden Mädels (deren Namen ich schon vergaß) ein interessanten Plot - neue Umgebung, neues Umfeld, Mobbing, erste sexuelle/queere Erfahrung/Gefühle, sexueller Missbrauch, Religiosität--entwickeln können, aber so wurde es ein sehr schlechter Film.

• Review by cyborgx7 ★

  Written like a german TV movie (derogatory)

• Review by TinoZ ★

  joa ne

• Review by ouliana ★★★

  they saw that meme about a bear and a man and decided to turn it into a movie

• Review by LEATH3RFACE ★★★

  Although the subject matter of a teen girls coming of age movie isn't my cup of tea, this one was creative, imaginative and original in premise. I thought the two leads were fantastic and the rest of the cast did a great job. A well-rounded religious backwoods thriller that has a few twists along the way and the finale was pretty great. A damn good directorial debut for Carly May Borgstrom. She is def one to look for down the road. The pace was ok, it has a few slower moments but that is to be expected in this type of film. The cinematography was good and the writing was on the same level. I was kind of down the…

• Review by Paulington ★★★★

  Someone watched Foxfire and the Little House on the Prairie rape episode on the same night and decided they should merge them into a religious backwoods thriller about tree monsters and teen girl bonding.

  Something feels decidedly off about this movie, and I don’t think it’s because it’s Canadian. While the story takes place in the 80s, or maybe the early 90s (it doesn’t ever specifically say), there is no nostalgia apparent on screen for anything that’s come before it, and it doesn’t reference any particular movie, or pull from pop culture of the era.

  It’s wholly original, which makes it foreign in a way that feels unnatural, if only because most of today’s period thrillers rely so heavily on curbing from past classics.

  This is going to mean something to someone somewhere down the road. It’s unique in its uniqueness. Too bad it’ll probably get lost in the weeds of today’s streaming landscape.

• Review by Scene Talk ★

  Das war ganz schrecklich. Irgendwo zwischen "Stranger Things", "Stand by me" und einer sehr dominierenden Note Bibi Blocksberg. Nichts macht Sinn, die Dialoge sind schrecklich und die Geschichte so hirnlos das ich mir immer wieder gegen die Stirn schlagen musste. Vor allem wird der große Twist in den ersten 5 Minuten verraten. Kein Scheiß! Darauf hätte ich verzichten können.

• Review by Milan Dilfhunter ★★

  Would’ve been better as a lesbian coming of age movie but instead it was a weird religious trauma coming of age homoerotic undertones friendship crime fantasy horror abusive father and bro idek there were so many underdeveloped sub plots 😓

• Review by traab ★★

  [English below]

  "Spirit in the Blood" (Canada/Germany, 2024)
  Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Coming of age

  "Die 15-jährige Emerson findet in ihrer neuen, streng religiösen Heimat eine Seelenverwandte in der rebellischen Delilah. Als ein Mädchen unter mysteriösen Umständen stirbt und Emerson selbst einer unheimlichen Kreatur begegnet, beschließen die beiden Freundinnen gemeinsam mit drei anderen Mädchen, ihre verborgenen dunklen Kräfte zu nutzen. Was als harmlose Teenagerfreundschaft beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem Kampf gegen das Böse in den düsteren kanadischen Wäldern.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​"

  "Spirit in the Blood" ist eine dieser Produktionen, die sich mit einer Tagline wie "Stranger Things trifft Stand by Me" viel zu weit aus dem Fenster lehnen - und dann krachend auf dem Boden der Realität landen. Eine Gruppe Teenager und ein…

• Review by phoebeamira ★★½

  this is why women choose the bear