Blood Relations is a 1988 Canadian horror film directed by Graeme Campbell and starring Jan Rubeš, Kevin Hicks, and Lydie Denier.

[2] Its plot follows the members of a dysfunctional family who congregate at an isolated mansion, where they expose each other's darkest secrets with lethal results.

They arrive at the empty house, while Thomas's estranged father Andreas, a neurosurgeon, is performing an operation at the local hospital.

Later, Thomas confesses to Marie that he wishes his father was dead, and laments that the prank they played earlier did not trigger a fatal heart attack.

Marie joins Andreas for a drink, and tells him she suspects either Jack or Yuri, the family's handyman, of murdering the cat.

The two are confronted by Andreas, who incapacitates Marie before restraining Jack to his operating chair in the basement, and performs a lobotomy on him.

When Marie awakens, she finds Andreas calmly frying pieces of Jack's brain tissue in the kitchen.

Jan Rubeš was cast in the role of Andreas, the mad surgeon patriarch of the family, based on his performance in 1987's Dead of Winter.

[5] TV Guide awarded the film two out of five stars, noting: "A baroque exercise in Grand Guignol horror, Blood Relations dresses up its thin, predictable plot with layers of menacing atmosphere.