BloodSuckingFreaks


Intensity	Stupidity:Nudity Ratio 6:10	Budget Small

Intensity

Stupidity:Nudity Ratio

6:10

Budget

Small

Our movie opens as a delivery truck is making a late night stop to drop off a mysterious crate at a theater. After a couple of boards are pried open, a chain hoist is used to extract the contents which turn out to be a naked girl. We are quickly introduced to Master Sardu who has an Off Off Broadway review that apparently involves torturing women to death in front of a small but mildly approving audience. During his interaction with his audience, Sardu is taunted by a critic. This seems to bother him and after having himself whipped by his minions, Sardu has the critic kidnapped. Thinking that a little physical violence will garner better reviews, the critic is soon chained to a post in the theater's basement. However, during his discussions with the critic, Sardu decides that he will stage a new show featuring ballet and murder. Putting thoughts to deeds, he soon has kidnapped a ballerina that he eventually bends to his will. Sardu opens his new show (which seems to involve the topless ballerina kicking the critic to death) but before the reviews are in, the naked crazy women he keeps in a cage in the basement break free and run amok.

Hmm, I wonder which would get him in more trouble now? Mass murder or smoking in a No Smoking area? The man is just plain evil.

Snappy dresser, though.

The audience features a snarky critic. If there is a lesson to be learned from this movie, it is don't torment a psychopathic killer.

Where to begin with this one. Sardu is probably one of the most likeable villains I have ever seen. No matter what he is doing there seems to be no malice in his actions. The death and mayhem he causes just don't seem to be that bad. Much like a 10-year-old child putting salt in the sugar bowl, Sardu's actions seem more amusing than appalling. And that is the key to this movie. There is no evil plot behind his actions, he is not a deranged serial killer with a mommy fixation nor is he possessed by the devil. He does these things the same way a spoiled-rotten, self-centered child would do things they know are wrong; because it amuses him. And he does despicable things. Let me rephrase that, he does unbelievably despicable things in a way that is so flagrant we can't understand why it is allowed to go on. Very early on in the movie we know we are in for a sleaze fest with no basis in reality. No attempt is made to be scary or make us think that this is real in any way. The filmmakers have created a huge puddle of filth for us to wallow in and stand beside it going "here piggy, piggy". Needless to say, I dive in head first.

After brain washing the ballerina, he has her star in his latest production.	Said production calls for her to stumble around topless and then kick the critic to death.	Again, tormenting psychopaths never ends well.
Apparently the white slave trade pays well. Sardu gets a million dollars for his last shipment.	Not trusting banks, Sardu stashes the cash in a hole in the floor of cage where he keeps the women he cannot bend to his will.	Yup, a cage full of naked, angry women. This seems like a good place for an ex-wife joke.

After brain washing the ballerina, he has her star in his latest production.

Said production calls for her to stumble around topless and then kick the critic to death.

Again, tormenting psychopaths never ends well.

Apparently the white slave trade pays well. Sardu gets a million dollars for his last shipment.

Not trusting banks, Sardu stashes the cash in a hole in the floor of cage where he keeps the women he cannot bend to his will.

Yup, a cage full of naked, angry women. This seems like a good place for an ex-wife joke.

We get to see a performance of "Sardu's Theater of the Macabre" which consists of a naked woman having her finger crushed in a thumb screw like device, then her head crushed in a larger thumb screw like device. I'd like to have more accurate terms for the devices used but my Thesaurus was of no help and frankly I am afraid to Google "thumb screw for the head". This progresses to a naked woman having her hand removed with a hacksaw and then her eye gorged out and eaten by a midget. The rest of the movie carries on in this theme. It is mind boggling puerile and juvenile and funny as hell. Of course, it can be offensive if you don't get the joke.

Every now and then Sardu goes for a change of pace.	Allow me to demonstrate.	Actually there is only one blood sucking freak in the whole movie. Sardu feeds him to the caged naked women shortly after this.
Typical of the "special effects" of the movie. Normally with bad special effects you would not linger on the shot. You might do a couple of quick cuts between it and someone screaming because you don't want the audience to get past the shock value. Here, however, we get about a 10 second shot of the image and even get to see the finger wiggle.	Speaking of special effects.	Playing backgammon for lady fingers. This scene is shot and cut really well and plays at a frantic pace. Again, it is pretty amusing or hugely offensive. Take your pick.

Every now and then Sardu goes for a change of pace.

Allow me to demonstrate.

Actually there is only one blood sucking freak in the whole movie. Sardu feeds him to the caged naked women shortly after this.

Typical of the "special effects" of the movie. Normally with bad special effects you would not linger on the shot. You might do a couple of quick cuts between it and someone screaming because you don't want the audience to get past the shock value. Here, however, we get about a 10 second shot of the image and even get to see the finger wiggle.

Speaking of special effects.

Playing backgammon for lady fingers. This scene is shot and cut really well and plays at a frantic pace. Again, it is pretty amusing or hugely offensive. Take your pick.

For years there have been movies that try to justify the Marquis de Sade's take on love and sex. While movies like "The Story of O", "Justine" and even "Last Tango in Paris" play on the theme of total subjugation of one ego to another they all come off as more than a little creepy. The man is always considerably older and the woman is young and naive. Now I grant you this is an almost universal male fantasy but it is usually best left as a fantasy. In reality "relationships" like this tend to end with jail time. I don't really think the filmmaker was trying to play off de Sade's borderline mainstream acceptance, but it would be nice if he was. Sardu is not looking for love or even sex from his slaves, just total obedience. This movie seems to take de Sade's theme to its logical extreme. Again, this is my reading of the film. I did find a reference that the filmmaker Joel M. Reed (GI Executioner) may have gotten some financing from a group that actually had their own S&M shows, so maybe he was poking fun at the Marquis after all.

Viju Krem plays Natasha D'Natalie a lead ballerina that Sardu decides would be perfect for his next production.

So he arranges her kidnapping. This is supposed to be the dressing room at New York's Metropolitan Theater. After she has passed out on the floor, the midget goes into his little jig that we see several times during the movie. I guess the guy just loves his work.

Torture.

So is it worth seeing. I have to give it a qualified yes. The film insults everyone. Women, cops, women, midgets, women, athletes, women, ballerinas, women. If you have heard the joke that the movie "The Aristocrats" is based on and don't think it is funny, stay the hell away from this film.

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