'Blood Shot': Unlikely Crimefighting Team Takes on Terrrorism
By Fred Topel, Special to Hollywood.com
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Indie films have to pull big stunts to compete with Hollywood. It's hard enough for a Juno to edge out historical epics and political thrillers with its poignantly witty dialogue. If you're a low-budget action movie, you've got to top robots turning into cars and superheroes slinging webs around the city.
Filmmaker Dietrich Johnston promises to do just that with Blood Shot. With a couple million dollars scraped together, filming in the warehouse spaces of downtown Los Angeles, he has conceived the ultimate buddy cop duo. A vampire (Michael Bailey Smith from The Hills Have Eyes) and a cop team up to fight terrorists.
Smith is a longtime friend of Johnston's, and most of the cast are other hungry actors showing their best. He's got a few names though, including Deadwood veteran and the voice of Chucky the killer doll, Brad Dourif as the evil terrorist Bob. The gang is here to give you 10 reasons why Hollywood can't touch this lovingly made low budget hopeful.
1) It's got the Brad Dourif Seal of Approval.
"I don't know, it just seemed like something I could do," said Dourif. "It seemed like fun. I suppose mostly it was fun. In terms of what was out there, this was right in the middle of the writer's strike. There's not a lot happening out there. For what's out there, it was way, way, really good."
2) You can Buy an Action Scene. Contact jacqueline.johnston@gmail.com if you want to help make Blood Shot bigger and better by funding more action. Now, what Michael Bay movie would ever allow that?
"There's an action sequence in the second act," Dietrich Johnston explained. "It takes place in a warehouse. Vampire ships some body bags to the terrorists in this warehouse in anticipation of going over there to kill them all. It would be a really fun action sequence."
Photo: Brad Dourif
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