bleed start a young female artist sai ( sarah ferooqui ) meet a mysterious yet charm man name renfield ( jonathan oldham ) and they end up back at her studio apartment where he give her the bark of some sort of tree which be use a a hallucinogenic drug when melt down . sai quickly become hooked a she be whisk into an alternate fantasy reality which involve vampiric creature . sai photographer friend royce ( chris ivan cevic ) become concerned about her a she drift far from reality a she become addict to the drug and can royce her kick the drug or will it end up ruin her life and why do the mysterious renfield get her addict to the stuff in the first place and do the elaborate fantasy dream like trip have any significance . co produce and direct by christopher hutson this anaemic arty vampire flick be pretty much 95 minute of tedium and be throughly deserve of all the bad comment . the script be write by the interestingly name sxvleithan essex ( how the hell do you even pronounce that anyway . ) who be also credit a production designer and his unusual name be actually more interesting than anything that ever happen in bled and i would guess that the maker set out to make a very serious fantasy base horror film with a strong moral message about the danger of drug and drug addiction and date rape drug at it core . the majority of the film be spend on the drug issue with sai initial introduction to the drug and how great the first time be and how she become hopelessly addict which eventually destroy her and her life and her friend live . it never explain where she keep get this drug from a renfield only give her a little bit during their initial meeting but hey and who care . the first twenty odd minute of bleed be really boring and dull and the following hour or so aren not much good before a mess of a final ten minute which involve a vampiric monster and renfield make a reappearance . the moral element be patronise and the fantasy element seem like an afterthought and the horror be none existent . there also the dialogue which be awful and every sentence try to be profound and have load of hidden depth and just try to have so much meaning that it become tiresome to listen to . the concept of the film be terrible and so be the execution a there absolutely no gore or violence to speak of and the entire thing be set inside an apartment that doesn not appear to have any light . the fantasy setting look a little good but it sparsely see and underused . there be no scare here and no atmosphere and to make matter even worse the maker have decide to use mute very faded colour which i just hate and find annoying and what wrong with a nice colourful image . it seem to me to be a fad with current filmmaker who seem to think that it automatically make a film cool or add atmosphere which it most certainly doesn not and more often than not it just make your film look dull and drab a evidence here with bleed . this probably have a low budget and be shoot in los angeles and it have reasonable production value but it all so dull . the act do not impress me and i do not care for or about anyone which be never a good sign . bleed be a terrible vampire film that go for psychological horror as well a physical with all sort of parallel to real life dug addiction and what it can do to little or no effect because the whole thing be so dull . there might be an audience for a film such a this but consider the other comment not that big a one .