7.3
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Horror, Thriller • 2025 • 95 min
A Blind Bargain (2025)
A Blind Bargain (2025)
Overview
A Blind Bargain is a 2025 psychological thriller directed by Paul Bunnell, reimagining the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film. Set in 1970, desperate young man Dominic Fontaine (Jake Horowitz) strikes a dark deal with unhinged doctor Dr. Gruder (Crispin Glover) at the Gruder Institute, unknowingly offering his mother for twisted experiments. Lucy Loken stars as Ellie Bannister.
Starring Cast
Crispin Glover • Jake Horowitz • Lucy Loken
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
7.3
Overview
A Blind Bargain is a 2025 psychological thriller directed by Paul Bunnell, reimagining the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film. Set in 1970, desperate young man Dominic Fontaine (Jake Horowitz) strikes a dark deal with unhinged doctor Dr. Gruder (Crispin Glover) at the Gruder Institute, unknowingly offering his mother for twisted experiments. Lucy Loken stars as Ellie Bannister.
Starring Cast
Crispin Glover • Jake Horowitz • Lucy Loken
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: High
The film delves into individual struggles with addiction and ethical dilemmas in a post-Vietnam setting, without promoting or critiquing broader ideological positions. Its cautionary narrative on blind bargains remains focused on personal consequences rather than political solutions.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: High
The film employs traditional casting with a predominantly white ensemble in lead roles, lacking visible diversity or intentional recasting of majority roles. Its narrative centers on personal desperation and scientific horror without addressing or critiquing traditional identities through DEI lenses.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The narrative centers on a strained mother-son dynamic where the adult son's addiction leads him to exploit and betray his elderly mother by offering her for unethical medical experiments, depicting familial bonds as fragile and vulnerable to individual moral failures. This portrayal underscores themes of ingratitude and eroded trust without clearly favoring traditional or alternative family structures.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film contains no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The film features no transgender characters or themes. Its story centers on a desperate man's Faustian bargain with a mad doctor, exploring addiction and betrayal without any reference to transsexual identity or experiences.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
The 2025 film reimagines the 1922 silent version and 1897 novel without altering the genders of canonical characters; the male protagonist and male doctor remain male, while the mother's role expands but stays female, and the female nurse is an original addition.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
The 2025 reimagining features lead characters portrayed by white actors, consistent with the racial depictions in the original 1922 silent film, where the cast was also entirely white. No instances of race swaps occur.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
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