...share their love of blood. Dr. Gore and his lover Naz play with needles; Tammy's scars are memory made flesh; Isis trolls the clubs for blood dolls. Refreshingly down-to-earth interviews make drinking and drawing blood natural and relatable.


Each person's passion for bloodletting reveals thoughtful connections between identity and intimacy. Elegant slow motion blood droplets stain the screen, exploding the knee jerk association of shock with kink.


Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs Programmer

A COVEN OF CUTTERS, VAMPIRES AND WICCANS...

... the 15-minute documentary peers into the lives of real-life "vampires," or blood fetishists, and by virtue of its own startling subject matter becomes quite gripping as the tales of exsanguinatory excess pile up.


By the time a fiftyish brit is describing how nicely O-Neg mixes with a good red wine, the most defiant audience member will be squirming with bracing sexual glee.


Matthew Brown, tederick.com

ROUGH AND UNASSUMING...

Some are into piercings (including bites from a non-venemous pet snake), some use blood as a sexual turnon, one affects being a vampire.  It’s a quirky subculture, and one that is separate from self-abusers who cut for attention or from desperation.


One amusing goth used to do very fine cuttings with a former boyfriend who was a real expert, but her current partner might think her a bit weird, and so she has given it up.  “Weird” is a relative term.


Steve Munro, Trainspotter and Movie Lover

ALL OF THEM HAVE A FETISH FOR BLOOD...