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BLOODSUCKING FREAKS

Sleazo-rama fake torture and degradation flick picked up by Troma and maintaining most of their type of films charm. I've heard H.G. Lewis Wizard Of Gore idea was ripped off in this as it is somewhat the same. In Wizard a magician named Motang The Magnificent performs fake mutilations on stage and then does them for real with the audience off stage. In Bloodsucking Freaks Sardu has a torture stage show where he performs very fake looking tortures which are in fact real unbeknownst to the audience.

Sardu and his assistant Ralphus (who's a cool and goofy looking black midget) run a white slavery ring and perform more atrocities back stage. We get the two throwing darts at a naked chicks arse with a bulls eye painted on her butt-cheeks, the drilling of a ladies skull and the drinking of her brains through a straw, a penis hot dog, nipple electrocution and other various tortures.

With most Troma stuff the acting is hilariously bad. Sardu and Ralphus have an especially annoying quality to them. The gore effects are pitiful and the music reminds me of the early H.G. Lewis gore flick Blood Feast. Director Joel Reed is responsible for other bottom feeding slop as Night Of The Zombies II and G.I. Executioner. Bloodsucking Freaks has a good line when Sardu tells Ralphus to "break a leg" and Ralphus responds "but whose master?". The film has its share of T&A, its loaded down with full frontal nudity like I've never seen before for this type of movie.

Sardu keeps a herd of nude "savage" women caged up in his dungeon and the amount of degradation displayed is beyond the point of sick, its hilarious and the fashion it is shown in is very fake but I'm sure feminists have kicked up a fuss over the movie some time in the past. It comes off to me as a silly little movie with some funny bits and a wacky sense of humor not to mention gobs of nudity.

"The movie has a midget, what else do you need!?"

Rating: 3 Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS

This film also appears on my list of Disturbing Movies. The movie takes place at a off-off Broadway theatre with the magician Sardu performing realistic scenes off gore, Grand Guignol style. He is of course a white slaver who leads a pack of Sadists in a gory house of torture. Filmed as The Incredible Torture Show, it was made to be a camp classic, yet fails greatly. The movie is very misogynistic and shows little respect towards woman, usually they are caged, sodomized or used as human urinals. The movie has very bad acting and not so special effects, the blood looks like it came from a Klingon Blood Bank. The scenes of torture and dismemberment look like they were done by 9 year olds. One of the few movies picketed by woman's groups that truly deserved the condemnation. Too offensive to be seen as camp, it is one of those movies that you will want your money back, even if you paid .49 cents for it. It seems the director of this movie got wind of my review and threatened to sue me if I did not remove or rephrase the review, Ok but I would not be proud of a film that is VERY similar to Herschell Gordon Lewis's Wizard of Gore.

Review by: Losman

Email: losman@express-news.net

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