Review of Blood Sucking Freaks (1976) by Charles James I — 05 Oct 2010
Welcome to Sardu's Theatre of the Macabre.
"Tonight, we begin with torture.".
I know there's got to be something wrong with me for rating this film so highly. But this is definitely the best Troma production I have seen, and one of the greatest gore movies out there. Period.
It's not just gore. It's a form of sick and deeply depraved art. It transcends what you think you might know about sadomasochism, and torture. Although very fun, and campy as hell, this film touches on some very dark ideas. The acting in Troma films is always notoriously bad, and quite laughable at times, yet it seemed to work extremely well in this case. Some of the best campy-horror dialogue around, I guarantee.
"Her mouth will make an interesting urinal..".
I've seen a few Herschel Gordon Lewis films, and have really enjoyed those. For those of you familiar, a lot of this film is based on HGL's "Wizard of Gore". I feel I am unable to put it in proper perspective not having seen the film that provides precedence to the "Bloodsucking Freaks", yet I still feel confident raving about this movie. I was honestly impressed. You will notice also in viewing this film, that it has helped pave the way, and provide inspiration for a lot of newer gore movies that all the kids enjoy these days.
This review of Blood Sucking Freaks (1976) was written by Charles James I on 05 Oct 2010.
Blood Sucking Freaks has generally received mixed reviews.
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