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Bereavement
It is a combination of powerful and terrifying events that we live in differently through Martin Bristol, a 6-year-old boy who is undergoing an emergency that is completely changing his life. This boy seems to be suffering from congenital obstruction, which may make things go at a strange turn. Martin's story began when he was abducted from his backyard swing and forced to watch the brutal crimes of a madman, turning into a different person.
25 August 1949, Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA
28 July 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
12 June 1989, New York City, New York, USA
March 04, 2011
"Bereavement" isn't a bad slasher film, but after a few stabs (no pun intended) at being something more, it settles for being just a slasher film. And that's disappointing.
August 26, 2015
Evidence of a group of filmmakers who take their horror seriously.
March 09, 2011
Virtually every shot in Bereavement -- a sort of prequel to Mena's Malevolence (2005) -- is the right one; the editing, also by Mena, is first-rate.
March 09, 2011
The film is so laughably Freudian it could play as a parody of certain acclaimed horror film studies such as Men, Women and Chainsaws: Gender in the Horror Film.
March 17, 2011
Gruesome in the moment, but your memory of it is easily wiped clean.
March 19, 2011
Palinesque, bland and increasingly silly with oodles of unintentional humor instead of what every horror fan expects: palpable scares.
March 18, 2011
I'd sooner touch a nine-volt battery to my tongue than sit through this film again.
March 17, 2011
"Bereavement" is cruel and unusual.
March 15, 2011
Bereavement -- miraculously as dull as its title -- is neither far gone enough to be funny nor well thought-out enough to be disturbing.
March 03, 2011
This is an example of what happens when a clever, proficient filmmaker falls in love with brutal trash.
March 19, 2011
Effective atmospherics don't rescue this formulaic slasher flick.
October 19, 2012
while Bereavement is certainly a slasher, it is also a film about how monsters are made, in which every character, hero and villain alike, is figured as tragic prey to genes and circumstance.