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Bloodsucking Freaks [Blu-ray] [1976] [US Import]

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  • Language: English
  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00JOSOJ56
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 138,167 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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If you're going to proclaim yourself a true fan of cult cinema, particularly of the darkest kind, you really don't have a choice: you have to watch Blood Sucking Freaks (aka The Incredible Torture Show). Yes, it can be hard to stomach - but, fortunately, there is only the one ballet scene that gets in the way of all the torture, cannibalism, and recidivist horror going on. It's really pretty amazing that there are so many of us sick and perverted enough to watch something like this, but even I am not sure I would ever want to peep into the mind of Joel M. Reed, the writer/director who actually had this idea and convinced others to help him bring it to cinematic life.

Down Soho way, you'll find a little hole-in-the-wall theatre advertising Sardu's Theatre of the Macabre. It's a pretty good racket for Sardu (Seamus O'Brien) and his diminutive henchman Ralphus (Luis De Jesus): they basically have a license to kidnap, torture, and eat helpless young women just by honing their craft in front of an audience and calling it "theatre." For its part, the crowd actually seems to revel in the sadistic brutality it witnesses, which is sort of disturbing in and of itself. Well, not all of Sardu's customers appreciate his unique form of entertainment. Not believing what he is seeing to be real, one local critic (Alphonso DeNoble) decries everything he sees on stage and refuses to review the show - that's a decision he'll live (or not) to regret. Two other members of that same audience are also destined to return to the theatre, a pro quarterback and his famous dancer girlfriend (Viju Krem). Sardu wants to put on a unique macabre ballet, and so he kidnaps his leading lady and tries to dominate her into doing his bidding.
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Imagine Salo shot in Coney Island with none of the political subtext or directorial skill - just atrocity after atrocity for the sake of it. The gore and nudity in this movie is as relentless as it is ridiculous - bodily hair and fake body parts are the order of the day. The overall effect is numbing rather than disturbing as the director tries everything in his power to shock us. Personally I found it all got a bit boring although the sheer amount of violence and perverted ideas (the guillotine scene will stay with me) will wear down a lot of defences and it's certainly preferable to the draggy likes of I Drink Your Blood or, God help us, Snuff.
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Believe it or not, a motion picture with such a grotesque title as "Bloodsucking Freaks" (but which had been filmed as "Sardu, Master of the Screaming Virgins", then retitled "The Incredible Torture Show" for its original theatrical run) is, essentially, a ballet film, although there are only really a few minutes (central and climactic ones, however) of the crazed, ballerina-topless, murderously sadistic moments of dancing. One of two kidnapped ballerinas, Natasha, after having been tortured and brainwashed, in order to avoid having her feet chainsawed off, like those of her celebrated colleague, becomes the sado-masochistic love-slave of Sardu, the ugly white slaver entrepreneur, among whose murderous accomplices is the sadistic black dwarf, Ralphus.

As the climax of a choreographed ballet routine, Natasha kicks to death a bound captive critic (for real, folks!) with repeatedly powerfully swinging dance motions of her vicious, long, muscular, Terpsichorean-trained trotters. This is the best moment of the film, indeed, its very core, even if the ballet dancing is less skillful than that of the likes of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Maria Tallchief, Alicia Alonso, or Karen Kain. As for the other female dancer in the story, the one whose feet the dwarf has sawn off, that victim is left lugubriously to drag her bleeding stumps, her body facedown, across a floor revoltingly grotty with filth and gore. The principal ballerina, for her part, having become a willing minion of Sardu, slays her gorgeous sports-celebrity boyfriend, Tom, stealthily lobbing an axe into the back of his handsome head while Tom has been trying to rescue Natasha -- and a detective, too -- from Sardu. Unbeknownst to Tom, Sardu had become her new master and lover.
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It should come as no surprise that Troma has picked up this for distibution. It contains everything for which Troma is famed - bad acting, bad direction, poor plot (what little plot there is) gross special effects, gratuitous nudity, scenes of torture, mutilation and decapitation. If you like Troma, you will love this. The film starts with a bound and gagged naked woman being unloaded from a crate and then carries on in its relentless misogynistic way. Women are stripped naked and then abused in all sorts of ways. One woman is used as a dining table while another is tortured into guillotining herself. Another woman has her skull crushed while another has her hand cut off, both of these in front of a specially invited audience. You may think by now that this is a negative review but it is in fact the opposite. This is a must-see for all fans of trash cinema. The acting is laughable especially the actor who plays the most incompetent and lackadaisical cop ever to don the mantle of New York's Finest; and no horror film would be complete without the homicidal dwarf. The film really is quite laughable in places and should only be viewed after a few lagers and whiskey chasers.
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