Go to content
Thriller about a jet set couple on a trip who are kidnapped by a recluse. Using some tricks for the missing scenes, the footage from 1993 - shelved after the death of star actor River Phoenix - can finally be presented as a complete feature film.
In 1993, George Sluizer was making good progress with the shootings for Dark Blood, featuring big movie talent River Phoenix in the leading role. About eighty percent of the script had been shot when Sluizer’s star actor died suddenly and very prematurely. The film reels ended up on a shelf. Years later, Sluizer was able to save the footage, which had been confiscated by the insurance, from destruction. By means of crowd funding and creative solutions in the editing room, Sluizer could finally finish his film with the promising young actor. The thriller revolves around a Hollywood couple that wants to celebrate their ‘second honeymoon’ with a trip across the desert. When their car breaks down and they are stranded in the arid and hot surroundings, they are saved by Boy (Phoenix). But the young recluse does not intend to let the couple go.

Credits

Production Design
Set geluid
Geluidsnabewerking
Cast (bijrol)
Production company
Sluizer Films BV

Title: Dark Blood
Year: 2012
Duration : 1 hour, 30 minutes
Category: Feature film
Edition: NFF 2012

Blik naar buiten(land)

NFF Archive

You are now in the NFF Archive. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. The NFF does not dispose of this material. For this, please contact the producer, distributor or broadcaster. Sometimes, older films can also be found at the Eye Film Museum or the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.