The Thing meets Get Out in this shocking tale reflecting racial and social tensions of our time.

Blood Conscious centers on vacationers who turn the tables on an unhinged killer who claims to be fighting demonic forces. Kevin (Oghenero Gbaje, Beyonce’s Black Is King), his older sister, Brittney (DeShawn White, The Deuce), and her fiancé, Tony (Lenny Thomas), set off to their parents’ lakeside cottage expecting a leisurely weekend getaway. But their holiday turns into a trip from hell as they enter a scene of mass shooting, where their parents and neighbors have all been killed.

Terror strikes when the armed killer (Nick Damici) confronts them, claiming to be fighting demonic forces that have possessed them all. They pin him down and lock him up in the cellar, but soon he claims to not to be alone down there. As unexpected and traumatic events keep unfolding, Kevin, Brittney and Tony have to find a way to survive the night without turning on each other – or becoming possessed themselves.

Blood Conscious is a smart and gripping elevated genre movie with strong subtexts of American racism and collective delusions. This horror-thriller is an ambitious psychological game of paranoia that relies on social dynamics to fuel fear and mistrust.

Screened in English with English subtitles.

Timothy Covell   | U.S.A.  |  2021 | 81 minutes