Bloodbeat is an odd tale about a brother and sister who come home for Christmas...only to end up fighting for their lives in a battle of light vs darkness.
The kids grew up hunting deer with their father, but their mother is a psychic artist, sorceress and prophetess, who paints what she forsees.
Thus, when her son brings home his new girlfriend for Christmas, to meet the family, she senses that something isn't right with her.
They make the mistake of bringing the girl deer hunting with them.
Where she ends up freaking out and running away...right into the path of a dying man.
Later that night, she has a dreams of finding a suit of samurai armour in a chest.
Now, every time she gets riled up- or has an orgasm- this rogue samurai comes to life...and attempts to hunt down and kill any and all of the deer hunters who happen to be in the vicinity.
After killing all of the neighbours...the ghost turns his sights on the family itself.
The mother- having been privy that something was awry- tries to intervene, and use her magic to stop the entity.
But it's vengeful spirit is just too powerful.
It's not until the two siblings combine their powers- which they have inherited from their mother- that they are able to stop this dark ronin once and for all.
The film doesn't do a very good job of explaining exactly who the ronin is, where it came from, why it was attached to the boy's girlfriend, or where the mother had "seen (the girl) before", despite those being central elements to the plot.
It all just kind of goes down...and then ends.
So you're left kind of confused in the end, other than, perhaps, to read into it, that the ronin is the devil, who, for some reason, has become attached to the girl, so as to attack this family that possesses powerful spiritual abilities.
But, really, that's all just reasoned speculation, based on a few subtle elements of the storyline.
It's not the worst supernatural Christmas slasher out there, but, they certainly could have done a better job developing the plot structure a little better...
4.5 out of 10.
