Summary (No Spoilers):
Scourge of Blood is a short film about a man randomly choosing to stab a stranger.
In-Depth Review (Spoilers Ahead!):
This is another short film, and it is clearly early in this filmmaker's career, but there is something fascinating about its punk flare and the violent nature.
The film begins with a shrill siren sound, the start of a song called Warsaw No Gensou by THE STALIN, a band with a name clearly made to offend, and this perfectly suits the film's explicit violence and its depiction as an almost euphoric affair.
The shots are all covered in a green tint with low quality camerawork, likely purposefully, as a man in a leather jacket with a punk style walks forward.
Eventually he comes across another man, and suddenly he is struck by violent impulse, as he attacks and chases after him while the music blasts.
The man catches up with his victim, and they tumble down to the ground together as they roll around, the camera unsteady and shaky while zooming in and out.
The man gets the upper hand and stabs his victim, blood artistically raining down as if landing on a translucent petri dish.
His victim looks terrible, blood splattered all over him, though the effects are as low budget as the rest of the film, so it's like seeing dark paint splotches.
And then the man runs off in high spirits, the vocals over the instrumentals creating a fitting complement to his horrific pleasure until it pans away to the distant landscape.
As films go, this added such casual cruelty with style, but it lacked in length as a 5 minute film with 2 minutes of credits, so I give it a rating of 4.5/5.
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