movieman_kev Ashley Green (who Tweens and lonely middle-aged women know from Twilight and the rest of us don't know of at all) plays Summer, a rebellious teen trying to find the father that she's never met. Shortly ever finding herself in a small backwoods town, she meets up with a guy whom she goes home with. Only to find herself in over her head the next day when she finds herself chained up in the basement.Aside from Green herself who doesn't appear to have any acting talent whatsoever, the movie isn't all THAT awful. Yea the marketing of it to attempt to capitalize off the success of the Twilight series is crass, tacky & wholly unneeded, but aside from all the BS there lays a somewhat well-thought out film.

homecoming8 "Summer's Blood" (a.k.a. Summer's Moon) stars Ashley Green from the "Twilight" saga. Maybe the targeted audience is the same, because this has PG-13 written all over it. I don't mind that the story is not original. I enjoy good horror movies in the tradition of classics like "Texas Chainsaw" or "Hills Have Eyes" It's already been done WAY better in similar stories like "Captivity" or the even better "Timber Falls". But there's not tension, no thrills and the surprises are rather stupid: The girl just simply ends up in a house that happens to be owned by her father she's been looking for, come on !Also the characters are unconvincing and the cast is not that great. The dialog is badly written. The biggest flaw is that the leading actress is an annoying bitch you really don't care for. The 'bad family' tries to be another evil "Texas Chainsaw" family but fails completely. The only one who really deserves the name of actor is the father, but he has very limited screen time and only appears in the final half hour. For a horror movie (it really does NOT deserve that name) there are no effects (shoe string budget). So when someone is shot or stabbed (happens only 3 or 4 times during the entire story) you do not get to see it.Please don't waste your time on this one, I only kept on watching hoping that it would get better but I was wrong..

capkronos Obnoxious, foul-mouthed teen Summer (Ashley Greene) has a falling out with her drunken mother, runs away from home and hitches her way to a small town looking for the birth father she's never met. After getting caught shoplifting at a gas station, Summer escapes the police with help from a handsome young guy named Tom Hoxey (Peter Mooney). The two go to a bar and then hook up back at his place. The next morning when Summer attempts to leave, she's knocked out and wakes up chained in the basement. Turns out that Tom is a bit on the unhinged side and his favorite pastime is keeping unwilling girls prisoner in his downstairs "garden." Tom is aided by his lonely, miserable mama Gaia (Barbara Niven), who knows all about her son's little hobby but does nothing to help the victims. A little insane herself, Gaia is still a loving mother. Well actually, she's a little too loving if you catch my drift. Meanwhile, Darwin (Peter Michael Dillon) is snooping around town looking for his missing daughter Amber (Danielle Kind), who is also being held prisoner in the Hoxey home. Things take an even stranger turn when Tom's father and Gaia's husband Gant (Stephen McHattie) - a serial killer himself! - returns home for a visit.Though the premise is pretty ridiculous, it gets off to a rocky start and the whole thing comes off like an R-rated made-for-TV movie, it's fairly entertaining and has some pretty sick content. Most (not all) of the actors do a serviceable job. I was not very familiar with lead actress Greene, since you couldn't force me at gunpoint to sit through a TWILIGHT movie. She was highly abrasive (and thoroughly unlikable) the first half but seemed to do better as her character became more desperate. Mooney did a nice job as the unstable son and Niven and McHattie were both good as the psycho parents. The film is relatively low on gore, though there's some nudity provided by Cinthia Burke, playing a tough biker babe/garage mechanic here.The Canadian-born director also made three (very clever) HARRY KNUCKLES shorts and several other genre pictures I've yet to see: the memorably titled Troma release Jesus Christ VAMPIRE HUNTER (2001) and the H.G. Lewis-inspired horror-comedy SMASH CUT (2008).

dschmeding "Summers Blood" starts out not too bad... I liked the overall look and the acting, yet there was some technical downsides on the bad dubbing and the editing became atrocious in the end with tons of senseless dissolves. What at first looks like a slow movie with a hidden secret turns into a mess of its own. The movie opens up with a hitchhiking girl ending up captured in a strange family after a pretty unconvincing one night stand. Her psycho lover keeps her in his "garden" in the basement along with another girl who just sits and babbles and then dies.You wonder about what that garden is supposed to mean, why the mother is acting strange while it plays a fake love story between the girl and her capturer who has a soft spot for her. As soon as the drop that the guys dad is out and coming home and the girl tells her story about how she came to town looking for her father you know everything thats coming up.And thats the funny thing about the movie... everything that is mysterious is dropped on the sidelines while everything else is predictable about one third in the movie. It all ends up random like they made the plot up on the fly while filming it culminating in one of the most ridiculous movie endings ever. I thought my DVD was broken and skipped a few minutes to the credits but the movie really just end. Stay away from this farce. There is no depth in the characters, their actions are not explained and for a horror movie this one seriously lacks either atmosphere or gore and can't make up for it with the lame incest story and "evil knife loving daddy".