Blood Freak (Unrated)

Starring:Tera Anderson, Dana Cullivan, Bob Currier, Dolores Currier, Randy Grinter, Domink Grutta, Steve Hawkes, Heather Hughes, Sandy Kneelen, Lee Morris (IV), Linda Past, Linda Preuwet, Anne Shearin, Francis Sipek, Debbie Smith (II), Sam Taker, Jane Tarber, Steve Vaughan, Larry Wright
Director: Steve Hawkes
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
The world's only turkey-monster/anti-drug/pro-Jesus/gore film! Musclebound Herschel (former Tarzan Steve Hawkes) falls under the spell of bad girl Ann when she offers him some weed. Now a writhing, spastic addict, the big galoot works at a turkey farm where he's fed meat treated with an experimental drug and naturally turns into a man with a giant turkey head. Who also gobbles. Still hungry for a fix, Herschel-the-Turkey-Man attacks fellow drug addicts whose blood he drinks with his pointy little turkey beak. He even buzzsaws the leg off a pusher who holds his stump and howls for what seems like days. Punctuated by philosophical pondering by co-director Brad Grinter (Flesh Feast), this is a monster movie unlike any other, a jaw-dropping milestone in crackpot filmmaking, and the ultimate cinematic turkey. Gobble-gobble!

Blood Freak (Unrated)
Average customer rating:

Psychedelic trash!!!

I've never eaten turkey with this much cheese.

Now I've Seen It All

just bad, not enjoyably bad

Caution: Extremely Fowl Movie!

Blood Freak (Unrated)
Starring: Tera Anderson , Dana Cullivan , Bob Currier , Dolores Currier , and Randy Grinter
Director: Steve Hawkes
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2002-09-24

Description

The world's only turkey-monster/anti-drug/pro-Jesus/gore film! Musclebound Herschel (former Tarzan Steve Hawkes) falls under the spell of bad girl Ann when she offers him some weed. Now a writhing, spastic addict, the big galoot works at a turkey farm where he's fed meat treated with an experimental drug and naturally turns into a man with a giant turkey head. Who also gobbles. Still hungry for a fix, Herschel-the-Turkey-Man attacks fellow drug addicts whose blood he drinks with his pointy little turkey beak. He even buzzsaws the leg off a pusher who holds his stump and howls for what seems like days. Punctuated by philosophical pondering by co-director Brad Grinter (Flesh Feast), this is a monster movie unlike any other, a jaw-dropping milestone in crackpot filmmaking, and the ultimate cinematic turkey. Gobble-gobble!

Customer Reviews:

Psychedelic trash!!!.......2006-02-24

Well, if you enjoy B-movies, crappy dialogue, bad acting and groovy music...this will be your movie; however, there is a little problem: pacing and blood. Pacing, because the movie is very slow, and it gets boring after the first 60 minutes; blood, because there isn't as much as say, Lewis' films. So if you can stand tedious narrative and just two decent murder scenes, you'll like it...in my case it wasn't enough. Rent it before buying it...life can't be complete without watching a movie in which the hero is a guy with a turkey head on acid!!!

I've never eaten turkey with this much cheese........2005-12-17

Blood Freak (Steve Hawkes and Brad Grinter, 1972)

Hawkes, star of a couple of obscure Italian Hercules films and the preposterously bad The Walls Have Eyes, a 1964 short which exists only to show Miami stripper Jody Baby naked, decided he hadn't quite made it into the stratosphere of cheesiness yet, so he, along with Grinter (whose best, and I use the term very loosely, film was Flesh Feast, Veronica Lake's final picture), came up with this turkey. And I use the term "turkey" literally. Blood Freak is a cautionary-drug-tale picture that makes Reefer Madness look like Oscar material. Without doubt, it propels Hawkes, and everyone else involved with it, into the Limburger Hall of Fame.

Herschell (Hawkes), a motorcyclist, meets and befriends Angel (Grinter favorite Heather Hughes) when her car breaks down. The unsubtly-named Angel, a Jesus freak in hot pants, lives with her sister Ann (Dana Cullivan, in her only screen role), who's more of the party-girl type. Herschell, as it turns out, is looking for a job in town, and nets a handyman position at the local turkey farm through Angel's church group. Meanwhile, Ann, who's fallen hard for Herschell, is trying to figure out a way to get him into bed. She uses what comes to hand-- drugs. These, combined with experimental turkey meat, turn Herschell into a bloodsucking freak, if you'll pardon the pun, with the head of a turkey. I kid you not.

I can't call it the worst movie I've ever seen-- while it was obviously a basement-budget production, it was enthusiastic, the acting isn't quite as wooden as one usually sees in these efforts, and Dana Cullivan is far too easy on the eyes. While it's silly and predictable, so is Night of the Lepus, released the same year, and it's one of the best B-movies ever made. If you go into this expecting utter silliness, you'll get a lot out of it. * ½

Now I've Seen It All.......2005-09-22

Seeing this masterpiece has made me a better person.
Plot: Herschell, A Vietnam vet,gets involved with a woman, and gets a job with her father at a turkey farm. At the farm they administer drugs to turkeys where it's Herschell "job" to eat said turkeys. Unfortunately, this turns him into a turkey man-monster ( but it gets better, he's not a full monster, as he's still clad in jeans and nifty plaid button-up shirt!) His grotesque looking paper-mache turkey head with giant ping-pong ball eyes will leave you amazed- lol! And I thought Plan 9 From Outer Space was bad! This is so bad it's a cinematic work of excellence! You'll delight in the screams of victims without anyone's lips moving, and they loop the same "scream" sound effect for different people :) I'm leaving out quite a few details to this gem.
Something Weird Video comes through again with tons of extra material to fluff up this turkey.

just bad, not enjoyably bad.......2004-12-29

I guess I'm the lone reviewer here to date that found this film just bad/boring, not bad/fun. The production qualities (bad lighting, sound, "special effects," etc) are, for the most part, just annoyances. In "Plan 9 From Outer Space," it's fun to watch a scene turn from day to night and back -- or to see the strings the hubcap spaceships are dangling on. In "Blood Freak," the cheap plastic prosthetic leg that gets chopped off looks bad enough to elicit some laughs, but other mistakes (such as a long scene shot with such insufficient light that you can't see what's happening) are just poor workmanship, not fun. Am I supposed to keep laughing for several minutes because the director didn't know how to light a scene so he could capture it on film? I think not.

Sorry, but this movie is just not in the same camp league as Russ Meyers, John Waters, or Ed Wood. If you're a fan of camp movies, I suggest renting this before buying it so you can decide for yourself whether this is is bad/good or just plain bad.

The dvd is packed with lots of extras. I watched probably 3/4 of them and cannot say that I found any of them particularly fun, either. There is a soft core porn movie masquerading as a moralistic tale about the dangers of being a [...]. There is a very lame nudist colony movie which is neither funny nor titillating. Obviously compiled by someone who likes terrible "B" movies, most of these extras miss the mark by a wide margin as well. All in all, this dvd was enough to put me to sleep on my couch early.

Caution: Extremely Fowl Movie!.......2004-02-01

This movie is absolutely sublime. If you appreciate truly terrible cinema, you MUST order this turkey now! Right now! This movie has it all! Terrible plot, awful dialogue, wooden acting (I am convinced some of the actors are actually made of wood), and THE most ridiculous monster in movie history, period. The plot revolves around Herschell, an ex Vietnam vet biker who gets involved with some pretty unsavory situations in the diabolical and powerful poultry industry, but thanks to the Grintner treatment, we never quite understand what is going on, and confusion reigns.

As bad as this sounds there is so much more that combines on so many levels to make this one of the very worst of the worst. This is worse than anything by Ed Wood or Al Adamson. My favorite diversions in the movie are twofold. First, director Brad Grintner (you see a lot more of him in the DVD extras) narrates this whole mess with a pro-religion, anti-drug, anti-giant mutant murdering turkey monologue, which I could make neither heads nor tails of. In the manner of William 'One Shot' Beaudine and Ray Dennis Steckler, he clearly did the narrative all in the first take, so you get a bonus of Grintner lighting cigarettes, smoking, and having horrible hacking coughing fits on camera. The second delicious diversion in the film is the scene right after Herschell becomes the turkey monster when he reunites with his girlfriend. I won't spoil it for you, but it's certainly a scene that you will never forget. I won't say more on the subject other than that I guarantee that you will love this film.

Also of note are all the extras, including a documentary on poultry farming, and other short subjects, two of which must be singled out for special mentions: "Brad Grintner: Nudist" is a short featuring Grintner and pals frolicking in the buff (note: this will NOT arouse you in any way); and, "Narcotics, Pit of Despair!" starring Kevin Tighe, future star (as Roy DeSoto) of TV's hit show "Emergency!" from the late seventies. Here he plays John Scott, a good looking high school student hooked on all sorts of bad stuff. Of course drug addiction is a terrible thing, and not to be mocked, but you are allowed a few smirks in this heavy-handed anti-drug film.

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Step right up, folks, and feast your eyes if you dare on the freakiest, creepiest show on earth! It's a four-ring circus of sideshow scares straight from the Something Weird vaults, bound to keep you gasping, screaming, and squirming! First up is the ultimate midnight movie cult classick, Basket Case, the tender story of young Duane exploring sleazy Times Square with his mutant Siamese twin brother stuffed away in a basket! Packed with gore and giggles, this unspeakable ode to brotherly love will have you coming back for more. And you'll swear you're hallucinating when you see the Blood Freak, a killer Turkey-Man who drinks the blood of drug addicts with his beak! It's a monster movie unlike any other, the world's only bloodthirsty-gobbler/anti-drug/pro-Jesus epic. But if you want something a little more feminine, get a load of She Freak, a colorful and kooky carny-noir from producer David F. Friedman (Blood Feast) in which a gold-digging hash slinger finds out the hard way that a midget scorned is a very scary thing. Then take a trip up to Frankenstein#s Castle of Freaks, where the crackpot doctor (Rossano Brazzi) unleashes monsters Goliath and Ook for a monster rumble to top them all. Come on, come all, come scream!

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