A young child with the inherited disease CIPA (Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis) is kidnapped from his yard by the former employee of a meat packing plant that has since become condemned. Five years after the initial kidnapping, the deranged madman sees the kid as an otherworldly entity, due his total lack of nerve sensation. He brings young women back to the factory and slaughters them in front of the boy, as some kind of sacrificial ritual for his cow skull "god".
There's an uninteresting sub-pot involving a teenage girl moving in with her uncle's family after her parents are killed in a car accident. The uncle doesn't want her dating the local boy because his mom's suicide messed him up... blah, blah ,blah. None of it matters in the end, that's all I'll say.
Firstly, "Bereavement" is really nothing all that "new" or exceptional in terms of serial killer-slasher flicks, especially those from recent years. There's a few decent gore scenes mingled into it, but everything involving Michael Biehn was a complete fuckin' snoozer with poorly written, schlocky dialog and didn't pertain to anything! The end is a total bloodbath, which was cool, but it was still incredibly predictable.
One thing, however. Brett Rickaby, who played the killer, should win a fucking Oscar for 'Best Serial Killer Performance'. Seriously. The dude pulls out all the stops in this role and knocks it out of the goddamn park! Watch the movie JUST for his performance. Otherwise, "Bereavement" is just okay.
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