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.
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.
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.
New York Times
March 18, 2011
I'd sooner touch a nine-volt battery to my tongue than sit through this film again.
"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.
