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Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong>\u00a0 (1976)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Film Distributing Corporation\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated X (some language, extreme graphic violence and gore, sadism, torture, full frontal nudity, strong sexual content, human depravity and degradation)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joel M. Reed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joel M. Reed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Sahl\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ron Dorfman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 3, 1976 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Seamus O\u2019Brien, Louie de Jesus, Viju Krem, Niles McMaster, Alan Dellay, Dan Fauci, Helen Thompson, Ellen Faison, Ernie Pysher.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Rating<\/strong>: NO STARS!!!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m almost tempted to give Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> a higher rating for sheer chutzpah. It\u2019s easily the most depraved movie I\u2019ve ever seen. What happens onscreen during its 91-minute running time is so sick and sadistic I\u2019m hesitant to describe any of it. But you know I will, right?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0It was originally released as The Incredible Torture Show which describes the movie to a T. It was retitled Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> after Troma acquired it. A title like that might lead some to believe that it\u2019s about vampires, but it\u2019s not. The monsters in it are all too human. So why the title? There\u2019s a scene where a man drills a hole through a woman\u2019s skull, sticks in a straw and proceeds to suck her brains out. Sounds lovely, no?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I have to admit that I like the title Bloodsucking Freaks <\/strong>better than what it was called before. It\u2019s a real attention grabber. I remember when it came out on video in \u201984, the box had a straw attached to it. It was a pretty cool gimmick. Sadly, I waited too long and it disappeared from the local video story. I finally found a copy at West Coast Video in 1990. For once, the hype was real! It was every bit as twisted and f***ed up as its reputation suggested. Still, the fact remains that it\u2019s a bad movie on virtually every level. It has some of the worst gore effects I\u2019ve ever seen. It\u2019s so obviously fake that even the most forgiving gorehound will be disgusted and not in the way the makers intended.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Master Sardu (O\u2019Brien) runs the dilapidated Theater of the Macabre in New York\u2019s Soho with his midget assistant Ralphus (de Jesus). He stars in a show in which women are seemingly tortured and killed before an audience. Guess what? It\u2019s for real! No special effects or magic, these women are really being killed. In the audience one night is a prominent critic (Dellay) that mocks and insults Sardu in front of everybody. Also in attendance are prima ballerina Natasha Di Natalie (Krem) and her football player boyfriend Tom Maverick (McMaster). Sardu sends Ralphus to kidnap the critic and bring him back to the theater. Sardu holds him prisoner while he preps for his new show, a ballet. He wants Natasha to star and knowing full well that she\u2019ll refuse his offer, he has Ralphus abduct her as well. She isn\u2019t keen on doing anything for Sardu, so he shows her just what she\u2019ll face if she continues to resist. In short, he tortures and murders several girls in front of the horrified dancer. Meanwhile, Tom and corrupt police detective John Tucci (Fauci) investigate her disappearance. In all culminates in a perverted version of a ballet in which Natasha repeatedly kicks the critic in the face until he\u2019s dead. A true film classic, wouldn\u2019t you say?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0A couple of plot points I didn\u2019t mention: (1) the theater is a front for a white slavery operation and (2) Sardu keeps a bunch of naked feral women locked in a cage in the basement. It just keeps getting better, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0As you can see, Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> wallows in sleaze and degradation. It has just about every type of depraved behavior possible- dismemberment, decapitation, caning, sadomasochism, cannibalism and necrophilia. The movie\u2019s highlights include the following scenes: Ralphus pleasuring himself orally with a woman\u2019s decapitated head, Sardu and Ralphus throwing darts at a target painted on a woman\u2019s ass (guess where the bullseye is?), a girl placed into a guillotine is forced to hold the rope holding up the blade in her mouth then caned on her bare bottom with the expected results and the caged women mutilating and eating a man thrown into their cage. Then, of course, you have the brain-sucking scene.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m sorry, Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> isn\u2019t a horror movie. It\u2019s a carnival geek show.\u00a0 It\u2019s made for ghouls, perverts and psychos. It\u2019s an early example of the short-lived \u201ctorture porn\u201d trend. It\u2019s not scary, it\u2019s just gross. Yet at the same time, it\u2019s perversely fascinating. Here\u2019s a movie that\u2019s bad on both an artistic and technical level. It\u2019s also completely morally bankrupt. The acting and dialogue are awful. It\u2019s cheap-looking and sleazy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0Writer-director Joel M. Reed (Night of the Zombies) doesn\u2019t hold back when it comes to nudity. Most of the women in this pitiful excuse for a horror movie end up naked at some point. It\u2019s not sexy, it just adds to the sense of degradation. However, it\u2019s so unbelievably campy that it can\u2019t be taken seriously. It\u2019s like an updated Grand Guignol show.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \u00a0I\u2019m told that Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> is meant to be a send-up of gory movies. Okay, I can see where some might find it funny on that level. Surely Reed couldn\u2019t have been serious when he made a film this sick and depraved? It takes guts and balls to make a movie like Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong>. Isn\u2019t he afraid that some will think it\u2019s a reflection of his state of mind? Doesn\u2019t he fear being committed to a mental hospital based on this alleged evidence? Apparently not. For that reason alone, I was tempted to award Bloodsucking Freaks<\/strong> a four-star rating. In the end, I went with NO STARS because it\u2019s so badly made. Not because of creative bankruptcy, not at all. It all comes down to presentation and this is a very incompetently made flick. See it if you feel you must satisfy your curiosity.<\/p>\r\n Bloodsucking Freaks\u00a0 (1976)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 American Film Distributing Corporation\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated X (some language, extreme graphic violence and gore, sadism, torture, full frontal nudity, strong sexual content, human depravity and degradation)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Joel M. Reed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Joel M. Reed\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Michael Sahl\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Ron Dorfman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 3, 1976 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Seamus O\u2019Brien, Louie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guilty-pleasures","category-scary-gory-wild-i-love-it"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Blood-Sucking-Freaks-PICS.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Blood-Sucking-Freaks-POSTER.jpg?resize=620%2C954&ssl=1\")
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