Summer's Moon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Summer's Moon |
| Original title | Summer's Blood |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lee Demarbre |
| script |
Christine Conradt Sean Hogan |
| production |
Neil Bregman Curtis Crawford |
| music | Steve Gurevitch |
| camera | Ioana Vasile |
| cut | Andre Coutu |
| occupation | |
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Summer's Blood (also known as Summer and Summer's Moon ) is a Canadian thriller starring Ashley Greene . It was released directly on DVD.
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Summer learns from her mother that Summer's biological father has kept his daughter secret. Since her mother refuses to tell her who her father is, Summer runs away from home and goes in search of him. Your only clues are an old photo and a letter. She hitchhiked to town where she wanted to look for her father. Once there, she steals something to eat at a gas station and is followed by the sheriff. The attractive Tom Hoxey bails her out and offers her an overnight stay with himself and his mother Gaia. Summer spends the night with Tom. When she tries to disappear unnoticed the next morning, she is knocked down by Gaia. Before that, Tom surprises Summer in the kitchen and makes it clear to her that she won't leave the house.
Summer wakes up in the basement of the house chained to a box filled with earth. Besides her there is a girl named Amber there, as well as several skeletons and a "human garden" with plants under artificial light. Amber sits in a chair chained to her feet. She has numerous superficial injuries and appears to be out of her mind. However, after Summer manages to get her to fetch one of the instruments on the wall in an unobserved moment, Amber has a fatal accident in a fall. Tom, meanwhile, seems to be mentally disturbed and sees his prisoners as a kind of garden fairy until his father, a cold-blooded serial killer named Gant, shows up again at home and takes care of them. Gaia seems to be uninvolved in everything and outwardly plays the amiable housewife and mother. Your relationship with Tom, however, goes beyond the normal. When Tom Summers searches through things, he finds her diary and the photo of her father inside, as well as the letter he once sent her mother. He then changed his behavior towards Summer. She can shower and stay in the house as long as he is there. Summer sees a chance to escape her fate by telling Tom that she loves him. She enters into an intimate relationship with him. Since Tom has apparently fallen in love with her too, he fears that Gant will kill her when he comes back.
Meanwhile, Amber's father Darwin appears in town and looks for her. When the auto mechanic Jessie refers him to Tom, with whom Amber was last seen, Tom abducts her to his basement and keeps her there for his father, in the hope of distracting him from Summer. Jessie manages to injure his leg with the knife. Summer is forced not to help her. Tom tells Gaia that Summer is his sister. When Gant hears about it, he immediately goes home. Shortly thereafter, Darwin appears in front of the Hoxey's house. Summer tries to escape with his help. But Tom is able to prevent her escape despite his leg injury and shoots Darwin in the process. Summer is chained up in the basement again. Soon after, Gant returns. Summer is only now learning the terrible truth about her father. She has to watch him as he abuses and kills Jessie. When Gant wants to take Summer with him on his next trip, Tom rebels against his father for the first time and is shot by him with a shotgun. Gaia then turns out to be Gants daughter. When she also shows disobedience, he kills her before Summers eyes. He's leaving with Summer. When they stop at a rest area in the forest on the way and Gant speaks to another woman who has also stopped there (presumably with the aim of killing her) Summer stabs him several times in the back. He falls lifeless to the ground.
criticism
“So much could have been made out of the wacky story. It is all the more shocking how little Lee Gordon Demarbre really makes of it in the end. It's probably the unspectacular and, for a long time, simply dull script that leaves little to no tension. The film babbles to itself for the entire duration, without any real highlights. [...] "
Web links
- Summer's Blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Twilight's Ashley Greene Tastes Summer's Blood on shocktillyoudrop.com
- Summer's Moon on filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Comparison of the FSK 18 cut versions of Summer's Moon at Schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Twilight's Ashley Greene Tastes Summer's Blood ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on shocktillyoudrop.com, accessed May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Brief review: Summer's Moon ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at kinothek.blogspot.de, accessed on May 21, 2013.
