All You Need Is Blood is a 2023 American comedy horror film written and directed by Bucky Le Boeuf and starring Mena Suvari, Eddie Griffin and Logan Riley Bruner. The film follows 16 year old Bucky, an aspiring teen filmmaker who casts the perfect lead for his breakout zombie film: his undead dad.
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| Directed by | Bucky Le Boeuf |
| Written by | Bucky Le Boeuf |
| Produced by | Jordan Yale Levine Jordan Beckerman Jesse Korman Russell Posternak |
| Starring | Logan Riley Bruner Mena Suvari Eddie Griffin |
| Cinematography | Jackson Jarvis |
| Edited by | Cooper Roberts |
Production companies | Yale Productions Post Film |
| Distributed by | Level 33 Entertainment |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot
editCast
edit- Logan Riley Bruner as Bucky Le Boeuf, a 16 year old aspiring director looking to make the next arthouse masterpiece.
- Mena Suvari as Vivian Vance, a washed up actress with a sense of style as tacky as a mobster's wife, the star of Bucky's film.
- Eddie Griffin as Detective Moses T. Swan, smart as a fox with a heavy religious attitude.
- Emma Chasse as June, a goth teen with intense stage fright, she joins Bucky's production as exposure therapy for her fear of cameras.
- Neel Sethi[1] as Vishnu Gudi, Bucky's loyal partner in crime.
- Tom O'Keefe as Walter Le Boeuf, Bucky's alcoholic emotionally-unavailable father who turns into a zombie.
Production
editIn January 2023, it was announced that filming wrapped in New Jersey.[2]
Release
editThe film premiered at the 2023 Sitges Film Festival.
The film had it's virtual premiere on the Kino App on October 12, 2024, before getting a limited theatrical and VOD release on October 25, 2024.[3]
Reception
editIn his review on Film Threat, Terry Sherwood rated it with a score of 8/10 saying that the film has "lots of spraying blood, action, and wisecracking dialogue."[4]
Connor Lightbody of Movies We Texted About gave the film a fresh rating and wrote “A spirited film that finds its stride early on and maintains pace right until it sprints into a gonzo, scaly and ultimately quite sweet finale.” [5]
Dan Scully of Scully Vision gave the film a positive review and wrote, "It’s the type of movie that makes you want to make a movie of your own, not just because it calls back memories of adolescent creative projects, but because it’s a film about how the process itself is the reward."[6]
Corey Newell of Sandbox Movie Reviews gave the movie 5 out of 5 stars and wrote "Overall the movie is a nice change of pace from all the dark and gloomy horror movies that are a dime a dozen this time of the year. Don’t get me wrong, while I love it all, it’s nice to take a little bit of a break and enjoy something a little less serious during the Halloween season. Especially around election time and with all the other stressful happenings in the world now. Kudos to the director and cast for making something worthwhile, original and light while not forgetting to give us all the usual horror tropes we all enjoy so much. I really enjoyed this movie and if you enjoy horror comedies this should be at the top of your list! " [7]
Tina Kakadelis of Beyond the Cinerama Dome said "All You Need Is Blood is infectious, a zom drom that may not have a pulse on a zombie technicality, but is brimming with life."[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Squires, John (October 26, 2023). "'All You Need Is Blood' – First Images from Zombie-Comedy Starring Mena Suvari and Eddie Griffin". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved November 6, 2023.
- ^ Wiseman, Andreas (January 12, 2023). "Mena Suvari, Eddie Griffin & Logan Riley Bruner Set For Zombie Horror-Comedy 'All You Need Is Blood'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
- ^ Frater, Patrick (September 13, 2024). "Mena Suvari-Starring 'All You Need Is Blood' to Launch on KINO Studio (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
- ^ "All You Need Is Blood". Film Threat. Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ^ "'All You Need is Blood' Review: A Fun, Flippant & Bloody Foray into Genre Filmmaking". Retrieved November 13, 2024.
- ^ Scully, Dan (October 1, 2024). "Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival Day Two: That Alien, Sound, Bystanders, and All You Need is Blood". Scully Vision. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
- ^ "ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD review – If you enjoy horror comedies this should be at the top of your list". The Convention Collective. 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ^ ""All You Need is Blood" - Film Review". Beyond the Cinerama Dome. Retrieved 2024-11-18.