Directed by Rob Grant and made chiefly with his filmmaking partner Mike Kovac, Fake Blood is an interesting take on movie horror and the responsibility of filmmakers to their potential audiences and society as a whole. What makes it so interesting is that it is chiefly a documentary – the filmmakers receive a video from a fan, detailing how they intend to kill somebody based on what they learned from the pair’s previous film. This prompts Grant and Kovac to begin an odyssey into whether film violence influences real life violence, and whether they have a responsibility to audiences and to society. In an age where someone can watch a Batman movie and then go on a killing spree dressed as the Joker, Grant’s film not only examines the blurred lines between movie violence and real life violence, it somehow manages to blur them further. As Grant’s explorations into real-life killers holds a mirror up to movie violence, it threatens the safety of the filmmakers themselves, adding a layer of tension and dread to what is already quite a disturbing film. Still somewhat underappreciated, this film is a must see, and I urge genre fans to seek it out.

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