Line #25 Film/LifeBlood


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3	''Life Blood'' (a.k.a. ''Pearsblossom'' and ''Murder World'') is a supernatural horror thriller film released in 2009. The film was directed and produced by Ron Carlson.
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5	On New Year's Eve 1969, a lesbian couple, named Brooke and Rhea, encounter the Creator of the Universe while driving on the Pearblossom Highway as they leave a party, when Brooke killed a rapist. The women are laid to rest for 40 years and awake New Year's Day 2009... as vampires. The film follows them as they are meant to lead a life of greater purpose.
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7	Instructed to devour evil, and thereby gain eternal life, the story portrays their first 24 hours of survival as these reborn creatures. Brooke starts to go on a killing spree, to prove herself loyal to the Creator, while Rhea tries to put a stop to the chaos that Brooke started after she kills a sheriff, his deputies, a married couple on vacation, and a hitch-hiker.
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9	!!''Life Blood'' contains examples of:
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11	* AngelUnaware: God, having already appeared to Rhea as God earlier in the film, appears again as the waitress in the diner at the end of the film.
12	* AssholeVictim: Warren James is portrayed as an arrogant movie star and a rapist. However, Brooke is an UnreliableNarrator and later admits that her original description of his death was not accurate.
13	* AttemptedRape: Brooke finds Warren James about to rape a woman, and kills him for it. She later admits not everything about her story was accurate however, so it's anyone guess if all this actually happened.
14	* CoincidentalBroadcast: In 2009, Rhea and Brooke are able to catch a documentary that fills them in on what happened after they left the party in 1969. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in this case as Dan mentions that it is a rerun, and it makes sense they would be showing a documentary about the unsolved murder of a famous actor on the 40th anniversary of his death.
15	* DivineRaceLift: God appears as a LipstickLesbian wearing a diaphanous wrap and nothing else.
16	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Apart from the prelude in 1969, the film chronicles Brooke and Rhea's first 24 hours as vampires.
17	* GasStationOfDoom: Rhea and Brooke decide to hole up in a remote gas station till the sun goes down; taking the clerk hostage. It is here that Brooke goes completely off the deep end and most of the killings occur.
18	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Dan is noticeably turned when it looks like Rhea and Brooke are making out (Rhea is actually biting Brooke in order to feed on her).
19	* {{God}}: [[DivineRaceLift She]] comes to Rhea in the form a lesbian in [[VaporWear very little clothing]], granting Rhea eternal life as a vampire in return for killing evil people on Earth.
20	* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The events of the film take place over New Year's Eve/New Year's Day, although the date has no real bearing on the events.
21	* IgnoreTheFanService: When Brooke and Rhea enter the gas station, Rhea tells Brooke to distract Dan, the clerk, while she closes the blinds. However, Dan knows that if two gorgeous, scantily clad women enter his station and one of them starts flirting with him, then he's about to be robbed, and panics.
22	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A super-powered punch from Rhea leaves Brooke impaled on a stop sign.
23	* InertialImpalement: Rhea delivers an uppercut to Brooke that [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom propels her into the air]] and leaves her ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice as she comes down on top of a stop sign.
24	* LesbianVampire: Brooke and Rhea are lesbians who are transformed into vampires by God. The transformation does not change their sexual preference.
25	* LipstickLesbian: Brooke and Rhea are models who are also lesbians, and later they're {{lesbian vampire}}s.
26	* MissionFromGod: God charges Rhea with killing evil people on Earth in Her name. Rhea only gets around to [[spoiler: killing her girlfriend Brooke, who turns evil after both are made vampires.]]
27	* NeckLift: The vampiric Brooke demonstrates to the overweight Dan that she is a serious threat by grabbing him round the neck with one hand and effortlessly hoisting him off the floor.
28	* NeckSnap: Brooke kills Rhea and Patricia by snapping their necks. Rhea gets better.
29	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vampires are avenging angels created by God to punish the wicked. They are vulnerable to sunlight to remind them that their work must be done in darkness. Those killed by vampires do not rise as vampires themselves. They still feed on blood.
30	* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The 1969 New Year's Eve party is a decadent [[TheSixties Swingin' Sixties]] party, with plenty of topless women and awash in booze and drugs.
31	* ThePlace: The film's two alternative titles, ''Pearsblossom'' and ''Murder World'', both refer to locations: the film is set in Pearsblossom County, and Murder World is the name of tourist attraction at the GasStationOfDoom where Brooke and Rhea hole up (an attraction that seems to exist for the sole purpose of allowing this as a title).
32	* PrettyLittleHeadshots: The Sheriff is shot through the head and left with a single bullet wound in the centre of his forehead, and no exit wound. As he was shot with a 9MM, this should have realistically blown out a large chunk of the back of his skull.
33	* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: A [[spoiler:possibly]] fatal version when Rhea delivers an uppercut to Brooke that propels her into the air and leaves her ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice as she comes down on top of a stop sign.
34	* RiseFromYourGrave: Forty years after being transformed into a vampire, Brooke awakens and claws her way out of her shallow grave by the side of the road.
35	* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Averted. When Brooke and Rhea enter the gas station, Rhea tells Brooke to distract Dan, the clerk, while she closes the blinds. However, the overweight and unattractive Dan knows that if two gorgeous, scantily clad women enter his station and one of them starts flirting with him, then he's about to be robbed, and panics.
36	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After Dan escapes from the gas station, he flags down Deputy Felix's cruiser and tells him what has happened. Felix is less than convinced (unsurprising since Dan is babbling about vampires), but tells Dan to get in and they'll go to the station and investigate. Dan yells no way and takes off running down the road. As a result, he becomes one of the few characters to survive the film.
37	* SlashedThroat: Brooke kills Steve by slashing his throat with a boxcutter.
38	* SunglassesAtNight: The Sheriff never removes his sunglasses; even indoors at night.
39	* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Brooke stabs Warren 87 times, a fact that Rhea does not learn until she hears it on the television, and which certainly discredits Brooke's claim that it was self-defence.
40	* VampireBitesSuck: Vampire feeding consists of literally biting a chunk out of the victim's neck and then sucking the blood out of the wound.
41	* VaporWear: [[DivineRaceLift God]] appears as a LipstickLesbian wearing a diaphanous wrap and nothing else.
42	* WarmBloodbagsAreEverywhere: Brooke is so completely overwhelmed by the scent of Bill, the first human she encounters after being resurrected as a vampire, that she bites him and kills him despite Rhea's attempts to stop her.
43	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While being held hostage in the gas station, Dan mentions that Pearsblossom County has been subject to a large number of unexplained deaths, and Brooke's first two murders are taken as being the work of this killer. This is never brought up again, and it is never revealed who or what is behind these other killings.
44	* YourMakeupIsRunning: When Brooke finds the mostly naked Carrie on the floor cringing away from Warren, her mascara has run most of the way down her cheeks.
45	* YourVampiresSuck: Dan attempts to throw a jar of garlic salt in Brooke's face. She sneers at him and asks if he learned that from a comic book.

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