Girish Gowda
Summer (Ashley Greene) has run away from home and is searching for her father who had abandoned her and her mother when she was very young. A policeman catches her red-handed while she is attempting to steal from a store. She escapes from the policeman with the help of stranger, Peter (Tom Hoxey). She hooks up with him for a one-night stand and to her horror, he and his mother happen to be psychopaths. Peter catches young girls off-guard and brings them down to his basement where he has a human garden which is downright horrific. Here he subjects them to inhuman torture if the girls try to escape. Summer tries to escape, but cannot and decides it is better to join them rather than knowingly inflicting harm. During the course of her stay, Peter's father comes home and she finds out he is her father also. But her long awaited fairytale reunion is marred by the cold-hearted father who decides to enjoy her young ripe body, rather than enjoying her presence. Peter is bodily harmed when he decides to intervene. Her father takes her away to a secluded area where there is only a woman, whom he plans to finish off. Can Summer manage to escape her monster of a father? Ashley Greene did a good job in portraying Summer & Peter as the psycho who makes her a pretty flower in his "Human Garden" with skulls & another girl were pretty disturbing. I liked this film more than I would have as it stars Ashley & I'm a fan of her from Twilight. (Now, that will get me some hate..). She's not the two-goody shoes here & its very fascinating. The film when it starts to slightly drag sees the introduction of Peter's father, who is rather entertaining to us audiences. How could any mother do that with her child? That's just gross. This film, though not awesome stands on its own & you will not get bored. The performances are quite realistic. Give it a chance people. Don't overlook it.7/10
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".
Vivianne Morena
Just watched "Summer's Blood" and I can say it's worth-watching movie. I'm pleasantly surprised to see Ashley Greene in such a serious role. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes this style. It's a story that keeps you "awake" to the end, you can't figure out what the heroes are going to do. At short I really, really LOVE this movie and I'll record it on a disk with "Thirteen","Deep Winter" and "Lords of Dogtown". "Summer's blood" is unique movie as i saw it. It has good plot, very good actors and keeps the public in tension. Honestly I downloaded it because of Ashley Greene and I'm definitely glad that I did watched it. It's nice. Love it.
MovieGuy01
I have just watched Summers Moon tonight, and i thought that it was a good film. It is about A teenage girl called Summer (Ashley Green, Twilight) who is on the road looking to try and find her father. Her only clue where to find where he may be is a letter from a rural community called Massey. Once Summer arrives in town she is rescued from a hit and run with the police, by a man called Tom(Peter Mooney), both of them seem to get on well together so they head back to Tom's house which her shares with his mum Gaia,(Barbera Niven). But on arrival at the house she is knocked unconscious by the demented family, Summer is bound with chains inside a box that is filled with dirt. She is also surrounded by by plants and human skulls and another girl who is almost dying. What she does not know she is the latest flower in Tom's ''Human Garden''. I found it to be quite disturbing at times because of the sexual violence in it. 5/10
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