She looks decidedly uncomfortable, but – as the title might give away – it’s not long before men are fleeing through the woods in the awkward situation of having their trousers round their ankles, as Nicoletta isn’t some naive young girl after all. On this particular night, which is all being filmed for the benefit of European fans of this rural pastime, an attractive young Romanian woman by the name of Nicoletta has turned up to join in. Blue Moon, the third film, is a genuine oddity, and does something I have genuinely never seen and doubt I’ll see again: it starts off at a dogging event, and if you don’t know what that means, then definitely don’t look it up. There’s a little twist here in a film which boasts a funny script, and a grisly riff on backwoods horror. Next up is Never Tear Us Apart, which starts with a man tied to a chair! Thankfully, this film doesn’t turn into a torture flick, as we instead follow two visitors to the self-same cabin in the woods where Chair Guy is currently situated.
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That said, the end sequence takes an odd turn, which ends the film more on a note of horror parody than full seriousness. This film focuses more on her plight and the effects of solitude upon her, albeit that the film is still bloody and one scene here is sure to make viewers wince and yelp (as I did). Panicked, she locks herself in the cellar.
In Shaun of the Dead style she breaks into an inn, but the tenants have disappeared and soon, the dead are able to follow her. The very first short film (or ‘Clot I’, which is perhaps a little unnecessary) is Hell of a Day, which is probably mood-wise the heaviest of all the films on offer, featuring an injured woman seeking shelter during a good old fashioned, honest-to-goodness zombie epidemic somewhere in rural Australia. Whilst the stories themselves aren’t linked, what they have in common is a punchy, decisively entertaining approach and enough variety to please any number of viewers. So, I was very optimistic when I came to watch Blood Clots, an anthology film which has taken the unusual step of compiling seven horror tales. Short filmmakers can’t get away with that. As we know, sometimes a film’s cardinal sin is overstaying its welcome, or stretching a meagre idea over ninety minutes.
Certainly, what this anthology showed was that there’s acres of potential in the idea that a film can comprise several shorter chapters, whether or not these chapters are linked in the way that, say, the old Amicus portmanteau films were. We have, however, seen some interesting variations on the anthology film in recent years, perhaps most notably with The ABCs of Death in 2012, which made a minor stir and spawned a second edition. Anthology films – often three short tales with a common framework – are nothing new, even if the format isn’t used all that often today.
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