Blood in the Face

The title refers to a white person’s defining ability to blush. Set at a Michigan gathering of the American Nazi Party, Blood in the Face features blithe talk about executing and gassing Jews, ”niggers,” and homosexuals. Hitler is a hero to these young thugs; Nazi fetishes are their hobby; the Holocaust never happened. Their white-trash, trailer-park mentality easily proves historian Hannah Arendt correct: Evil is banal. Though not particularly well-crafted, with sloppy editing and some truly lifeless scenes, this documentary on America’s white-supremacy movement is nonetheless fascinating, in the same way as being at the scene of a horrible calamity. B-