Oh Good God No.

Rating: 7/10 (25 July 2005)

A film about menstruation based on the Freudian model in which girls a plenty confront bloody vampriric monsters in a cavernous hell. You can say its about bereavement, you can say its about repressed Lesbian relationships, though you'd be wrong there; you could even say its about nothing but I say you're wrong - its one long bit of anxiety about the female cycle and I DON'T mean the one your girlfriend bought from Halfords this morning. In terms of imagery its everywhere - wild and deadly fluctuations in mood against a backdrop of blood drenched passages. Everyone knows the definitive take on the subject is The Blob but this is a close second. Saturated in horrid, ovulating imagery its a pion to the desires of the flesh - those feelings that build to a bloody crescendo at a certain time. The final third is resplendent with multitudinous acts of penetration - a symbolic acknowledgement of the contradictory desire to be impregnated at a time when its the most dangerous. I found it to be a gruelling, unpleasant experience as a result because lets be honest, no-one wants to get into that sort of thing do they?