Blood Punch: A Grotesque Cocktail worth Tricky Mornings

All right, confession time. So, I first watched Blood Punch by pure accident after a messy kräftskiva (crayfish party, folks – if you know, you just know). Woke up at god-knows-when, pulled open the curtains and saw this DVD staring at me from the coffee table. How did it get there? Honestly, fortfarande no idea.

Blood Punch sounds like another one of these straight-to-video slashers you find at ICA Maxi on some discount shelf near the frozen pyttipanna. Wrong, kompisar. Sure, director Madellaine Paxson wasn’t exactly on my shortlist of cinematic geniuses – but this little indie horror-comedy weirdness hits you differently. It’s like a macabre Groundhog Day spiked with moonshine.

The main actors aren’t exactly Bergman regulars, Milo Cawthorne and Olivia Tennet, but their weird chemistry just works. So does the dark humour and over-the-top gore. Picture yourself laughing nervously at someone’s limb casually chopped off – bland skräckblandad förtjusning alltså!

But somtimes the pacing felt off, you know? Maybe its my hangover talking (that kräftspad was lethal indeed), but around the mid-point I caught myself grabbing ännu en kopp kaffe just to keep alert. The twisted, looping story can feel repetitive – irony at best, considering that’s the whole jädra point, eller hur?

But listen, has anyone else out there ever had that weird déjà vu feeling after a rough night? Like you’re living the same day over again, stuck in your own monotonous loop? Well, Blood Punch nails that precise feeling, på ett sjukt and absurd sätt.

And really, I keep thinking about that movie still – even months later when I stumble groggily out of bed. Producer Fred Schaefer definitely deserves a toast, because whatever bizarre mix of ingredients he and Madellaine cooked up, they left me both amused, mildly confused and genuinely creeped out.

Not quite top-tier cult material yet, but if you find yourself groggily awake at 2 am, give Blood Punch a chance. Just kanske skip the crayfish first, okej kompis?

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