Bloodbeat
Its to Vinegar Syndromes credit that they manage to unearth some of the weirdest nonsense that ever graced a video shelf and give it five star treatment. Bloodbeat is one of their most 'out there' scores, with inexplicably psychic characters, possessed Samurai armour and plenty of bow hunting. Shot by a French director who headed west in search of his Horatio Alger moment and finding himself in snowy Wisconsin. After apparently getting into the local acid/pot scene he began writing then borrowed some money to make this. By his own admission he was inexperienced and was expecting at least a portion of the film to be improvisational. The end result is a mess. Its an interesting one though. Like runaway nightmare its a film that's somehow better than the sum of its parts based on the fact that its so damned weird it was difficult to tell exactly where it was going.
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