AIqbal (Idan Aedan), a faith healer and exorcist in training, has spent a long time trying to suppress his ability to talk to the dead and see spirits. Sadly for him, when he was given the chance to fit in with the other child repair Waqas, Iqbal started doing the all. As soon as Iqbal’s parent takes the initiative to settle into a new apartment, his worst nightmare comes true. One of the most malicious spirits begins to torment everyone in the vicinity. From then on Iqbal is unable to ignore his supernatural gifts to help his family and friends.
The storyline given by Ben Omar, Nandita Solomon, and the director Said makes this even more human, and this is one of the reasons that makes the blood flower so appealing. It is effortless to witness how much Iqbal despises using his supernatural powers and instead harbors the thought of conquering the evil spirits around him, but is presented with any normal life. But instead, the entire event is built up about Iqbal’s innate hatred for using his supernatural powers.
Imagine having the power to levitate things and essentially defeat spirits that emerge around you, well most would think that Iqbal does, but he vehemently hates the idea and so he wants a normal life instead. The subject of his inability to grasp the traumatic event forces his mother and his aim to make friends was quite provoking to the point where the terrifying entity locked behind the greenhouse door becomes avoidable. Considering how his friends in the apartment donned the same age and were unaffected by any of it, the interactions they had with each other truly ensured an engrossing half of the movie. The paranoia that even the characters are unable to understand yet, is then deeply nurtured as the secrets within his family turn out to be such which are not meant to be found out.
This commentary is quite a riveting story that neatly links all the strands while also contextualizes the important characters within it.
Consequently, “Blood Flower” executes gruesome dark magic and gore action scenes with great success. Iqbal’s very first encounter with a possessed neighbor was quite a sight to experience. The ghastly action in that scene where the spirit of the haunted targeting the group who came there is not free was astonishing. The aspect where Iqbal and his companions remove the spirit from the locked greenhouse is spine-chilling since everyone disregards all the caution signs at a constant rate to pretend to be teenagers in an ‘unkonventional’ rebellion.
Those horrifying events that arise afterward are rather efficient. Considering gross action is now loosed from its bond and can now chase and prey on the rest of the inhabitants of the flat, and oil painted lives followed by some strange accidents and even death, followed by a rather menacing idea which features a person surrounded by a demonic figure and being forced to perform. Harrowing is not only the series of deaths and strange accidents that happened. The angle of demon domination which these friends of his turn out to be the traitor’s secret element leads to. The shocking ending is offset by the unbelievable battle which is the exorcism battle.
This type of genre is overly familiar due to the level of action and information introduced. This, however, serves as an entertaining point because the visuals themselves are compelling enough to make this overall experience pleasant.
Blood Flower is a self-contained story; however, it has some glaring concerns. The first concern is that the film has a lot of the same traits of other films, so there is a feeling of coexistence. Most of this is the case because of the possession and demonic influence that is portrayed in typical Southeast Asian manner, which turns the victim into a hyper rabid, bulging-eyed out of control monster until it is placed under a spell. This approach to the format has been adopted by an unfathomable number of movies in recent years, and tends to reduce some of the effectiveness. Also, the same kind of look of possessed people is also produced so that the look becomes repetitive as well as the action itself so that it is not very innovatively creative. This one shares the same condition as well as an unrealistic and somewhat lunatic looking CG that portrays the creatures’ last transformation, considerable similarities with the rest of the titles of this type which use this kind of material.
The supernatural elements alongside the ‘demon’ theme did seem funny in an otherwise quirky film. Paired up with a combination of other natural sequences, this negative quirk ended up making the film more amusing than scary. Along with this, the character to the demon was portrayed pretty poorly which included a friend of theirs in a family setting, which made the entire character of “demon” look silly instead of scary.
Even though all its negative aspects did bring down the performance significantly, “Blood Flower” is still a decent watch, regardless of its minor problems. Fans of Asian horror films will still enjoy the movie and what it has to offer as it explores the more modern side of the genre.
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