The film tells the horrifying story of Martin Bristol, a 6 year old boy with congenital analgesia, who is abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman.
6 April 1998, Florida, USA
15 December 1964, Shafer, Minnesota, USA
28 July 1986, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
31 July 1956, Anniston, Alabama, USA
6 April 1998, Florida, USA
12 June 1989, New York City, New York, USA
7 June 1960, Appleton, Wisconsin, USA
16 March 1986, New York City, New York, USA
25 August 1949, Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA
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.
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 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 19, 2011
Effective atmospherics don't rescue this formulaic slasher flick.
March 03, 2011
This is an example of what happens when a clever, proficient filmmaker falls in love with brutal trash.
March 17, 2011
"Bereavement" is cruel and unusual.
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 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.
March 18, 2011
I'd sooner touch a nine-volt battery to my tongue than sit through this film again.
August 26, 2015
Evidence of a group of filmmakers who take their horror seriously.
