BLOODSUCKING FREAKS – I first set eyes upon ‘Bloodsucking Freaks’ when I was a more militant kind of horror fan, the kind who wouldn’t watch ‘Troll 2’ but would bang on about something like this as if it were the second coming. Now I’m middle aged I prefer stuff like ‘Cellar Dweller’ – such evolution of the spirit. Anyway, I was quite amused when ‘Bloodsucking Freaks’ was passed uncut by the BBFC five or six years back, but looking at it now, I suppose you could say that the grossness is more tonal than explicit. Well, you do get to see a cageful of naked madwomen rub torn-out organs into their breasts, arses repurposed for use as dartboards, electrified nipple clamps etc etc, but I always remembered it as far nastier and less comedic. On the other hand, the ‘lightness of touch’ that seems designed to make ‘Bloodsucking Freaks’ appear to give its audience a knowing wink is more difficult to swallow than the gore in some ways. For the unacquainted, it’s about Sardu, the purveyor of a reviled Times Square basement grand guignol show, who operates a human trafficking business on the side with his mate Ralphus. They get embroiled in a vendetta against a snooty theatre critic and kidnap a ballerina; a football hero (!) and a corrupt detective investigate. Whilst all of this is going on, various little asides and scenes turn up like inverted comedy sketches, most of them involving flakily rendered sadism of some kind along with Sardu’s wisecracks (all courtesy of a genuinely mesmerising performance by Seamus O’Brien). ‘Bloodsucking Freaks’ has always enjoyed an obnoxious reputation, and in some ways it’s quite difficult to defend. There’s undoubtedly way ‘worse’ out there as far as explicitness goes, but it’s just the attitude, sneery and misogynistic. On the other hand, it’s quite shrewd, and could even be seen as a self-aware parody turning the screw on that kind of horror, or maybe brought into, or closer to, the fold of the acceptable through a kind of rehabilitation as a wilful blast of post-John Waters bad taste. Regardless of its underlying intent, it does conjure up a real ambience of sleaze and decrepitude, pure mid seventies NYC, a grimness that clings to the celluloid like a layer of pond scum but takes shape as a series of glimpses of starkly lit cellars, squalid interiors, naked flesh pressed against dripping, peeling walls, and that ever-swarming film grain. In that way, it is still quite an effective film, the shadow of a flyblown past cackling away in its own darkness. A lot of genre fans think it’s wretched, but in its callous way it’s less hypocritical than the last few dozen flicks on at your local multiplex (as was).

As always, Frankie, kudos on an outstanding review. :hail:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B46CwkwyRU
A young man who is accused of murder whom says it was a beast and not a man is be escorted to be killed.

They end up staying at a secluded in for the night , soon the young man finds out that the owners are planning too kill them. The guest banned together and kill them but this is the start of their problems when they find out they where going to be sacrificed to a group of werewolves whom come looking for there meals.

The acting while not the best is passable and the film movies at a fast pace and is very gory and is the only film I've seen with a werewolf shitting on someone!7/10

I was going to pick up Werewolf... in Morrisons yesterday but there are only a couple of days left and I still have a load of films I plan on watching before the end of Saturday, so skipped it. I'm sure I'll get to it at some point though, MusicMagpie next October possibly :D

Zombie Holocaust. 1980.

An expedition on a remote Island to find a tribe of the Kito find a doctor conducting experiments on humans turning them into zombies.

Another film I wasn't keen on but warmed up to it on a second viewing and love it, Zombi star Ian McCulloch returns to a different remote island to battle zombies and cannibals with a small team who fall foul to the cannibals with eye gouging moments and cutting people up while still screaming. I didn't think the premise would work but it actually does, the removal of vocals cords was causing the doctor to be disturbed while operating on a woman while she is alive..what was he thinking it would tickle? The cannibals seem to have a thing for blonde women with a perfect body and designs.

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#Alive (2020, Il Cho)

Director's first full length effort apparently. Accomplished enough then.
I enjoyed this in the comforting way that horror fans will in these times.

Ah, bless, the undead, you can always rely on them :skull:
As an infection spreads rapidly, a millenial prat is left to cope on his tod. Can he? Let's all see shall we .....
Reasonably constructed, the moral being, do you know who your neighbours are?
I'll say no more as I'm off to see what comprises of the finale of Lovecraft Country, and you'll all be hearing about that in an hour or so :skull:
No nodding off at the back there now! :laugh::rolleyes:

I love it. O'Brien is just crazed . REWATCH!!!! :skull:

(Rob Zombie's) 31 (2016)

https://i.ibb.co/P5kgSM0/31-Doom-Hea...Silhouette.jpg

I'm unsure about 31 at this very moment in time. On one hand, it has some very atmospheric and well shot scenes, on the other hand, as soon as anyone talks the dialogue is so awful it just ruins it all. It's also very mean and nasty but I'm sure that was the point.

However, possibly Sheri Moon's least annoying character performance, and a pretty good chainsaw section in the middle! But I doubt that I'll ever watch it again!

:chainsawkill:

Final thoughts, all the way through the Doom-Head opening sequence in B&W I was thinking how cool and ballsy would it be if the entire film was shot like that.

Mausoleum. 1983

A woman becomes possessed by a demon that hovers over the females in her family for years and tries to free herself from the curse.

Apart from the plot being something that has seen before and family's having curse's and the next generation trying to defeat it, this is one of those B movies from the glory 80s that not that bad. The acting may not be great but certainly entertaining enough and some dark atmospheric moments. The cinematography is close to being the same as the Italian-American horrors we love that helps the tone of the film seem a bit haunting. Enjoyable enough for me to watch it again.

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I was disappointed first time round, but second time thought it better.

As for Sheri's best performance - definitely 3 From Hell - she's incredible in that.

reminds me. I saw that last night and haven't reviewed it yet.