Here’s the summary they told us: “A creature stalks the corridors of an abandoned mansion. Two friends break in and discover that all exits have been sealed off and the creature that hunts them is growing hungry for their blood; there is no escape.”

For Emiliano Ranzani’s first directoral effort, this looks halfway decent. One thing that puts it over the top is that the credit sequence looks like it had some actual thought behind it. So many direct to streaming releases just have crappy fonts on a bad background. Blood Bags actually tries. Ranzani and co-writer Scarlett Amaris also worked with Richard Stanley for his film The Theatre Bizarre.

There’s also an attempt to pay homage to Fulci and Argento by having a backstory where the killer and his brother suffer from a real malady, Gunther’s disease, which is close to vampirism. Hey — it’s nice to see some horror, any horror, come out of Italy these days. This was shot in Turin, the same city where The Cat o’ Nine Tails and Four Flies on Grey Velvet were once filmed.

Blood Bags is available on demand and on DVD from High Octane Pictures.

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