Blooded (film)

Blooded
DVD cover
Directed byEdward Boase
Written byJames Walker
Produced byNick Ashdon
StarringNick Ashdon
Adam Best
Oliver Boot
Isabella Calthorpe
Mark Dexter
Sharon Duncan Brewster
Tracy Ifeachor
Joseph Kloska
Neil McDermott
Cicely Tennant
CinematographyKate Reid
Edited byEdward Boase
Music byIlan Eshkeri
Jeff Toyne
Production
companies
Blooded Ltd.
Magma Pictures
Ptarmigan ACP
Distributed byRevolver Entertainment
Release dates
Running time
76 minutes
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish

Blooded is a 2011 British independent horror/thriller film written by James Walker, produced by Magma Pictures and Ptarmigan ACP and directed by Edward Boase, his first feature.[3][4][5][6] The film premiered at the Bradford International Film Festival on 18 March 2011.

The plot involves an animal rights action group calling themselves the "Real Animal League", which kidnaps five young deer hunters and then hunts them. It is filmed in a mockumentary style. As part of the promotion, distributor Revolver Entertainment created a website, realanimalleague.com, for the fictional Real Animal League (RAL), which mentions the film.[7] An email statement to the real animal rights group, Animal Liberation Front (ALF), supposedly from the RAL claiming that the film misrepresented them, was reprinted on the ALF website. The Evening Standard reported that the film "caused outrage after graphic scenes showing activists attacking five deer-stalkers were posted on the internet, in a viral publicity campaign,"[4] and the film's topic has provoked reactions from parties on both side of the hunting debate in the UK.[8]

  1. ^ "Blooded film review". Express.co.uk. 1 April 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  2. ^ "About – Genie Film". Retrieved 24 June 2020.
  3. ^ Matthew Bell (6 March 2011). "The IoS Diary". The Independent. London. Retrieved 11 March 2011.[dead link]
  4. ^ a b Benedict Moore-Bridger; Ellen Widdup; Rob Parsons (22 March 2011). "Oh deer... heiress tells of 'harrowing' film role as the quarry of hunt extremists". Evening Standard. London. Archived from the original on 26 March 2011. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  5. ^ "Blooded". British Council: British Films Directory. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  6. ^ Adam Woodward (24 March 2011). "Grass Roots, Blooded". Little White Lies. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  7. ^ Ben Riley-Smith (22 March 2011). "'Blooded': Truth, lies and animal rights". First Post. Retrieved 24 March 2011.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference The Scotsman was invoked but never defined (see the help page).