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Bleeders
Credits
Title: Bleeders
Directed by: Peter Svatek
Written by: Charles Adair; Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett
Produced by: John Buchanan; Ed Elbert; Gary Howsam; Pieter Kroonenburg; Julie Allan
Music by: Alan Reeves
Cinematography: Barry Gravelle
Edited by: Heidi Haines
Production
Distributors: Fries/Schultz Film Group
Kingsborough Greenlight Pictures
Released: July 31st, 1997
Rating: R
Running time: 89 min.
Country: Canada
Language: English
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Bleeders is a Canadian independent horror film of the "creature feature" subgenre of horror. It was directed by Peter Svatek with a screenplay written by Charles Adair, Dan O'Bannon, and Ronald Shusett. It was produced by the Fries/Schultz Film Group & Kingsborough Greenlight Pictures. It premiered in Italy on July 31st, 1997. It was released direct-to-video in the United States on October 13th, 1998. The film stars Roy Dupuis as John Strauss with Rutger Hauer as Doctor Marlowe, and Kristin Lehman as Kahtleen Strauss.

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Notes & Trivia[]

  • The tagline for this film is "It's in the blood".
  • In Canada, the film was released under the title Hemoglobin, which redirects to this page. This is the uncut version of the film, which includes about one minute of extra footage that is not included in Bleeders. This includes a nude scene between actors Roy Dupuis and Kristin Lehman.
  • This film is loosely based on the short story The Lurking Fear by American author H.P. Lovecraft. The original story was written in November, 1922 and published in serial format in Home Brew in four installments from January-April, 1923. It was also adapted into a feature film called Lurking Fear in 1994.
  • There are a total of twenty-three credited cast members in this film.
  • This film had a production budget of approximately 8,000,000 in Canadian dollars.
  • Production on Bleeders began on July 16th, 1996. Principal shooting concluded on August 27th, 1996. The movie was shot at Grand Manan Island in New Brunswick, Canada. [1]
  • On the movie review website Rotten Tomatoes, Bleeders has an audience score of 30% based on more than 250 use ratings.
  • Actress Carmen Ferland is credited as Carmen Ferlan in this film.
  • Actress Lisa Bronwyn Moore is credited as Lisa Bronwyn-Moore in this film.
  • This is the first, and to date, only known horror film produced by Kingsborough Greenlight Pictures.
  • This is Peter Svatek's second horror film as a director. He previously directed Witchboard III: The Possession in 1995. He will go on to direct seven episodes of the Big Wolf on Campus television series.
  • Writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett are best known for their work on the 1979 sci-fi/horror movie Alien.
  • Actors Rutger Hauer and Christopher Heyerdahl have both appeared in episodes of the HBO television series True Blood.

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References[]

  1. IMDB; Bleeders (1997); Filming & Production.

This article relates to the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
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