Review of Blood Freak (1972) by Manuel T — 13 May 2008

This movie is so full of cheeze you might as well bring some crackers along too to eat with this cheeze while your at it. Even if this movie is cheezy and bad I still love watching it once in awhile.

I think this movie was suppose to be one of those scare films about the effects and dangers of taking drugs from the Holy Roller's P.O.V. back then in the 70's. This is just plain awful with the narrator who keeps interrupting certain scenes with him reading from the script talking about the effects of drugs and he's their smoking a cigarette in front of the camera,.

How funny is that. Hahahahaha.

After Herschell the main character eats the turkey meat that the scientists injected with an experimental drug that was laced in it. Herschell after awhile begins to feel the effect, trying to walk he staggers and falls down to the ground, when he awakens and gets up he's horrified that his head mutated into that of a turkey's and then he goes out attacking the drug pushers and addicts by killing them and drinking their blood to satisfy his drug addiction. He even Gobble Gobbles like a turkey too. Their is one scene on their that has no audio, it's with Herschell, the drug addicted sister and the preacher girl talking, I don't read lips at all and I can't understand what they are saying so it's useless. At the end of the movie the Narrator comes back on, talks some more, and then he takes a deep drag of his cigarette and than starts having a coughing fit real badly. I thought I was going to see the gory part of him coughing up a lung but it didn't happen. Bonus Features which are kinda interesting but some I didn't care for:

Before this turkey movie Steve Hawkes and his girlfriend fall victim to a sleazy motel manager in the 28-minute, 1969 skin noir featurette "The Walls Have Eyes!".

A short subject film called "Narcotics, Pit of Despair!" It's like a "Leave it to Beaver" type setting, set in the late 50's about a clean cut teenage guy who falls victim to heroine who starts out by being invited to a beatnik party and then from their his life starts going to hell. The narrations are cheezy too like for example: "Oh, Oh Johnny just got finished using the bathroom and he didn't wash his hands. Sally noticed something was wrong when she saw Johnny coming and running out of the bathroom quickly so she confronted him asked Johnny politely to go wash his hands. Johnny turns around and heads back to the restroom. Good job Sally now germs won't get on anybodys hands now that his hands are clean". This short film is very, very weird and trippy.