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Bleeders (also known as Hemoglobin) is a 1997 Canadian horror film directed by Peter Svatek and based upon H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear". It premiered at the Fantastisk Film Festival Lund in Sweden on September 14, 1997, and was released direct to video the following year. It is the last original script written by Dan O'Bannon produced during his lifetime. Plot John and Kathleen Strauss are a French-Canadian couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. They encounter Dr. Marlowe, who is intrigued by the case. They are unaware that the Grand Manan Island in Canada's New Brunswick which they are about to set foot upon is home to the Van Dam family, mutant-like creatures who have become deformed and bloodthirsty from centuries of inbreeding. Their mutation began with their relative Eva Van Dam, who had a incestuous relationship with her twin brother. Also, they are fully functioning hermaphrodites, capable of reproducing with themselves. They need to survive on (dead or alive) human flesh. John discovers that he is a Van Dam, born normal looking and taking part in normal society, but his rare blood disease can only be suppressed with human flesh and sex with his siblings. Cast Roy Dupuis as John Strauss / Van Dam Gillian Ferrabee as Eva Van Dam / John's Twin Sister Kristin Lehman as Kathleen Strauss Rutger Hauer as Dr. Marlowe Janine Theriault as Alice Gordon

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“For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”
— Acts 15:28–29 (NWT)
“Le sang qui vient de se repandre, est-il donc si pur?”
— Was the blood which has been shed then so pure?
“One tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees — . The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book 1, Chapter 5: The Wine Shop
“Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!”
— Genesis 4:10 (NRSV), of murdered Abel
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.”
— Jeremiah 48:10 (KJV)
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the dwell among the children of Israel.”
— Numbers 35:33-35 (KJV)

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Overview

Bleeders (also known as Hemoglobin) is a 1997 Canadian horror film directed by Peter Svatek and based upon H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear". It premiered at the Fantastisk Film Festival Lund in Sweden on September 14, 1997, and was released direct to video the following year. It is the last original script written by Dan O'Bannon produced during his lifetime. Plot John and Kathleen Strauss are a French-Canadian couple attempting to uncover the secret to John's rare blood disease. They encounter Dr. Marlowe, who is intrigued by the case. They are unaware that the Grand Manan Island in Canada's New Brunswick which they are about to set foot upon is home to the Van Dam family, mutant-like creatures who have become deformed and bloodthirsty from centuries of inbreeding. Their mutation began with their relative Eva Van Dam, who had a incestuous relationship with her twin brother. Also, they are fully functioning hermaphrodites, capable of reproducing with themselves. They need to survive on (dead or alive) human flesh. John discovers that he is a Van Dam, born normal looking and taking part in normal society, but his rare blood disease can only be suppressed with human flesh and sex with his siblings. Cast Roy Dupuis as John Strauss / Van Dam Gillian Ferrabee as Eva Van Dam / John's Twin Sister Kristin Lehman as Kathleen Strauss Rutger Hauer as Dr. Marlowe Janine Theriault as Alice Gordon

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Notable quotes

“For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to you except these necessary things to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you carefully keep yourselves from these things, you will prosper. Good health to you!”
— Acts 15:28–29 (NWT)
“Le sang qui vient de se repandre, est-il donc si pur?”
— Was the blood which has been shed then so pure?
“One tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees — . The time was to come, when that wine too would be spilled on the street-stones, and when the stain of it would be red upon many there.”
— Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Book 1, Chapter 5: The Wine Shop
“Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!”
— Genesis 4:10 (NRSV), of murdered Abel
“Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.”
— Jeremiah 48:10 (KJV)
“So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the dwell among the children of Israel.”
— Numbers 35:33-35 (KJV)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.