Blood and Lace

I didn't realize how perfect it was to watch Blood and Lace a few nights ago with everyone being so rape-happy, as well as all of these grown men getting caught with kiddie porn on their pc's. It seems like now it's almost becoming some sort of bizarre trend to come fourth about someone that "touched" them (mainly in Hollyweird) with someone accusing someone else of these acts pretty much every damn passing day. It's getting old. I'm sick of hearing about it. But just as those stories and headlines are starting to yellow like the paper they would be printed on if not for digital media, it's older grindhouse/horror flicks from the 70's like Blood and Lace that remind me that the past tends to always repeat itself with a vengeance. Apparently in the kiddie porn/rape department. This film is chock full of very strange and just downright wrong sexual innuendos that have to do with grown men wanting to have sex with Ellie (our main girl) albeit even with her character being 18 in this situation-the men that would try to partake in such activities have to be at least in their 40's, if not even older than that. Pretty much the entire run time consists of awkward scenes where it seems like pretty much all of the adult characters that work at the Deere orphanage home have leanings toward such sickening desires. Hide under the bed sheets. Carry a hammer.  

Hammer with a P.O.V. That's different.

The quietest murder I've ever witnessed.

Damn. Mother's Day must have been a bitch of a holiday.

You found it buddy. The hammer.

Umm... the detective is leaning towards being a pedo. I hope it's hammer time for him soon.

Oh boy, it's Uncle Leo!

Impeccable aim sir, but did the kids hand really have to be severed?

Ellie is going to be trouble. You better be ready.

No one steps into their room for a "nice cup of tea".

Fence shadows always add a layer of suspense.

Man, is everyone a fucking pedo in this film?!

I never thought I would be rooting for Freddy Krueger's fat brother, but now is the time for him to show up.  

Blood and Lace is probably the only movie that I know of where a hammer is a character in and of itself-it even has it's own point of view which adds some sort of personal texture to people getting whacked. Everyone that gets killed in this film is by a hammer (brutally I might add) and for good reason. The people that run the Deere Orphanage Home are all just sick twisted bastards and I don't blame Ellie and the detective at all for what they do in the final act. Shut that place down. There are consequences for trying to escape the orphanage as well-Ellie finds a girl in the attic that has been tied to a support beam for days and hasn't had water or food for the duration as punishment, and you even see Mrs. Deere in one scene drinking water right in front of her to torture her even more. Upon first viewing, Blood and Lace is absolutely off the wall and presents a hefty helping of modern warnings about people not being what they seem. Watch it again though-revenge tastes sweeter than that piece of pie you ate the night before. Just make sure you wear a flannel and defend yourself with a hammer. Harvey Dent, anyone?