Das experiment.

I was recently stating how easy it is to stage an horror movie in a medical environment. Well, Bloodwork just proved me wrong. There's a really cool story : two college boys sign up to be guinea pigs for a new antihistaminic and, well, they don't look too bright right from the start, but they're not the slighest bit tripped by the fact that the "experiment" requires a complete lock out of two weeks and by the enormous amount of money promised by the way too hot doctor - straight out of an E.U advertisment for science.

The pitch being quite convincing, one would expect the right amount of blood and scary experiment. So when it turns to shit - because it does of course - one can be disappointed. The slow and not very subtle introduction of doubt -"Wait! Are we really testing antihistaminics?" - misses the point, the explanation comes way too soon and is so didactical you'd think you're in a Brechtian play. The characters are not even remotely interesting, they're just... well, they're just there. The experimental-decorum is kind of redeeming the whole thing, this and the use of a significant amount of bugs and worms and the like.  And there's the surprising Levi-Strauss-like hypothesis about the existence of taboo and human survival that makes the whole thing funny, for lack of being scary.