Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)-Michael Patano
Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)
By Michael Patano
Troma films, the sicko’s who brought you The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke ‘Em High in the 80’s, now owns the rights to this film, which is great, because they’ve re-released it out on DVD which I just picked up recently. This film would’ve never been released nowadays, but back in the 70’s, it played in Drive In’s in such great cities as Podunck, Texas and such. I first heard of this great gem by reading Joe Bob Briggs’ review for it in one of his books, and wound up finally finding it in some obscure video store out in the middle of the nowhere one night and just had to rent it. This was back in da daze g, befo’ there was an internet, and purchasing a original VHS tape costed anywhere from 49.95 to 99.95, so yeah.
Anyway, there is a bare thin plot to this, so if that’s what you want, forget it, but if you actually have any desire to see this film, you should know that there is not going to be much of a plot, if any. It’s all about Master Sardu who runs a cheap off-broadway show down in New Yawk where he performs ‘magical illusions of torture’ similar to the Grand Guignol back in da daze g. But guess what! It’s not really a illusion, he’s actually getting WHITE SLAVES from the ARABS in exchange for, I think it was cocaine (which would make sense in the mid 70’s) or whatever, dopes them up, throws them on stage, strips them nekkid and tortures them. Plot? Uh..oh yeah, he sees this hot ballerina and comes up with a great idea to mix torture with ballet and create a sensation. Uh, hey, if Warhol can paint pictures of Campbell soup cans and make it work, why not. Postmodern art is merely all about the spectacle..isn’t it?
Anyhoo. There’s tons of nekkid women in this. Lotsa boobs, butts, and so forth, but no sex or hardcore stuff, just wanted to let you know in case this stuff offends you. Oh wait, there is a scene in which Ralphus the midget does RAPE a decapitated head, and Sardu has homo love with a corpse, but eh…There’s also a ton of extremely fake, yet graphic violence. My favorite is when the ‘doctor’ comes over for a little ‘fix’ of his ‘fetish’, and Sardu allows him to take a nekkid slave, shave her head, grabs a power drive, drills INTO her head, sticks in a straw and now you know why it’s called Bloodsucking Freaks. YEAH BABY!!!
The infamouse ‘bloodsucking’ scene begins!
Ralphus has some popcorn and enjoys the show!
Copyright C 2007 Michael Patano