HipsterZOMBIEJoint Movie Review: Blood Machines
HipsterZOMBIEJoint Experience
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Seth Ickerman & Carpenter Brut‘s Blood Machines is the best visually appealing and audio pleasing sci-fi project made in years. The film is a grindhouse acid trip adventure in space. The film blends cyberpunk and fantasy and creates an awe inspiring journey into the unknown.
The film follows two spacemen in the distant future who get more than they bargained for while chasing a rogue AI to a far-off planet.
The movie is a collaboration between synthwave musician Brut and French directors Raphaël Hernandez and Savitri Joly-Gonfard (who work together under the pseudonym “Seth Ickerman”). Carpenter Brut and Seth Ickerman had joined forces before on the music video for Brut’s 2016 song “Turbo Killer,” which can be best described as two competing ritual sacrifices involving bad men and captive hotties. In the video, one ritual ritualizes in a delightfully artificial graveyard while the other does its thing aboard—get ready—a spaceship shaped like an inverted crucifix.
Blood Machines is a continuation of the story started in Turbo Killer. The movie centers around the concept of intergalactic entities whose souls are held within machinery, and its ending leaves audiences to explore themes such as revenge, the patriarchy, and oppression.
Now if you are looking for Academy Award winning acting or even a coherent story, this might not be the film for you. However, if you love grindhouse aesthetic, phat beats, and weird sci-fi this film will not disappoint you.
HipsterZOMBIEJoint Experience highly recommends Blood Machines now streaming on Shudder.
