BLOOD FREAK
Brad F. Grinter's Blood Freak (1972)
The VHS Archives Factsheet
Label: Regal Video Inc.
Catalog: R1025
Box Type: Clamshell
Year of Release: 1985
Runtime: 75:06
Print: 1.33:1 / English / No subs
Extras: None
About the Film
Director: Brad Grinter
Year of Release: 1972
Country of Origin: U.S.A.
Stars: Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Heather Hughes, Brad Grinter
AKAs: Blood Freaks, A Bloody Phenomena, Drug Story
Verbatim Box Synopsis
Lock your doors... check your windows... turn on all your lights... look under your bed... because the Blood Freak is on the loose. This horrifying, addicted monster is on the loose and has an insatiable thirst for addict's blood. To survive others must die a horrifying and slow death at the hands of the half-monster half-man mutant who stalks the night.
U.S. Regal Video sleeve! Apparently the company didn't feel promoting the film's turkey-headed monster was their best marketing choice...
U.S. Something Weird Video sleeve!
U.K. Midnite Movies sleeve!
Spanish Video Dimas sleeve!
French A.V.L. Production sleeve, courtesy of Nanarland!
Its key art is actually taken from Jess Franco's Manhunter (1980)!
French Colombus sleeve, also from Nanarland! This time,
the key art is stolen from Lech Kowalski's Story of a Junkie (1987)!
Awesomely gory theatrical trailer, uploaded by Dead End Drive-In!
Looking for Blood Freak on VHS? It's available on Amazon here. An even better choice is the excellent DVD from Something Weird Video, featuring a nice transfer supplemented with a ton of related drugsploitation and turkey shorts!
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(1966). This anonymously-directed fifth and final entry in George Weiss’ popular S&M-flavored series strays a bit from the blueprint laid by its predecessors, shifting the action to the suburbs where housewives are being pushed to boogie down with some shifty clientele. However, the gang’s true purpose is soon revealed as a front for a satanic cult specializing in human sacrifice! While certainly no classic, fans of NYC’s roughie movement will find some worth in Olga’s Dance Hall Girls. Audrey Campbell is sorely missed in the titular role, but at least sexploitation vet Larry Hunter shows up to keep the sleaze cranked to an appropriate level, and smaller roles are played with familiar faces like Linda Boyce and Uta Erickson. Plus, who can take umbrage at underwear catfights?
(1968). As their motto goes, "We don't owe nobody nothin' and we don't make no deals! We're swingin' chicks on motorbikes and maneaters on wheels!" Add in some splashy violence, groovy garage rock and hilariously quotable dialogue (including the legendary "Go fumigate yourself, craphead!") and you have a guaranteed night's entertainment.
once its rights were bought up by Jimmy Maslon's Shock Films, who reissued it themselves in 1990 as part of their incredible 'Sleaziest Movies in the History of the World' series hosted by Joe Bob Briggs. Shock then worked out a deal with Something Weird Video, and that's where it's resided since. Their DVD looks great and comes with a fun commentary, stills collection, trailers and more, so get on the road!
, containing the sleaze classic Chained Heat (1983) in a version with plenty of never-before-seen skin and gore, its chicks-in-chains follow-up Red Heat (1985) and the cult star-palooza action epic Jungle Warriors (1984). I got involved with the project years ago when Panik House was still an actual company, though the only thing that remains of my involvement now is an interview with Sybil Danning for Chained Heat. I conducted the chat in Los Angeles a while back and she was an absolute delight to sit down with. Hopefully you get a kick out of it! (We also discussed Jungle Warriors, but that section of the chat now seems M.I.A. Ditto with the stills collections. And for those of you wondering why Linda Blair isn't on the disc, her price was pretty outrageous. A shame, too, as the phone conversations I had with her about the film were hilarious!) 
(1973), coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in August. For this one, I scanned a bunch of my photo negatives, which includes a few shots I haven't seen printed anywhere before. Granted, some of them came out much nicer than others (I guess I should really spring for a proper negative scanner!), but overall I think it's an interesting addition to the disc. Thanks go out to DVD producer Greg Chick, who also wrangled up quite a bit of extra stuff for the gallery. The release will also include a new interview with the director, conducted by 
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to the anti-pot scare-film classic 
to the birth-of-a-baby roadshow jaw-dropper 
and Jimmy Maslon and Frank Henenlotter's upcoming Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore. The latter's same team are now working on a follow-up dedicated to the man himself, currently titled David F. Friedman's That's Sexploitation. 
(1970) is an odd duck of a movie -- a pre-slasher slasher heavily influenced by the gore trade of H.G. Lewis. The "plot," as it is, ostensibly follows an assistant D.A. and his girlfriend as they attempt to solve a series of gruesome mutilations centered around a game booth at New York's Coney Island. In reality, it's just scene after scene of annoying character after annoying character badly improvising their way through extended stretches of travelogue footage, bitching and complaining until they're relieved of a body part or two. Rinse. Repeat. Its singular mindlessness is actually quite fascinating, and the vintage footage of the popular tourist trap is a great time capsule of an era long gone. (Bonus points for a pre-Rocky Burt Young as Gimpy, the Hunchback!)
