Bloodsucking Freaks [Blu-ray]

BLOODSUCKING FREAKS, also known as THE INCREDIBLE TORTURE SHOW (T.I.T.S.!), is one of the all time greatest sexploitation shockers ever released. This movie has everything the conniseur of fine filth could possibly ask for! There's plenty of naked girls, bloody gore, sadistic violence, over-the-top acting, cheesy dialogue, and even a midget. (o.k., actually I think this guy is technically a "dwarf").The DVD released by TROMA contains lots of little bonuses including a super-informative extra audio track by blood and guts film expert ELI ROTH. This movie will appeal to any B-movie buff who can tolerate the extreme sex and violence. A word of caution... this movie could be construed as incredibly misogynistic by anyone who would stoop to taking it seriously.This is the perfect getting drunk on a friday night with a group of friends kind of film. You will never forget the memorable performances of SARDU and RALPHUS... nor are you soon to forget the antics of the "caged sexoids". 3 thumbs up! The best white-slavery ring run out of an off-off Broadway grand guignol theatre by a thespian sadist and his midget assistant movie ever made!Everyone I've ever shown this film has been moved by it's outlandishly intense scenes. No one ever forgets the human dartboard or the brain-sucking scene. This is without a doubt one of the sickest, sleaziest, most mind-numbingly ridiculous films ever released.

and i had to own thisyou should have this in your collection too

I first heard of this film as a freshman in HS English class.The teacher described a night of drinking and possibly 'smoking'then seeing this film. She described the straw scene.Within 2 years of graduation, my best friend called and said: "We have to go to the midnight movie and see this: the title alone makes it worth it!"We went. It was truly cheesy fun, and reached cult status in years to come. It precedesmany of the current attempts at gore, but does it with a Catskills sense of humor.THE DVDThe over-the-top analysis of the movie with symbolism explored in depth, reminded me of attending film school, so much was made of minutia. The film is not for everyone, but then again, those who hate THIS movie, probably watch Jennifer Anniston or Disney pictures and enjoy them. I find those two latter categories more tortuous to watch.The sad fact many of the actors died shorty after the movie was made, prevented a sequel. I'd enjoy a big name update, however.It's like watching Rocky Horror without all the annoying singing.

Bad acting , cheap

This film handles such heavy subjects as insanity, torture, abduction, corrupt police officers, white slavery, and much more and still manages to be entertaining. Much of this is due to the performance of Seamus O'Brien, who, as Sardu, delivers the sometimes surreal dialog completely straight faced. It is a shame this actor was killed by a burglar in his house early in his carreer, as I believe he could have been as great as Christopher Lee. The interaction with his assistant Ralphus (played by Luis De Jesus, who later found his way in the Star Wars universe as Ewok in Return of the Jedi) is very light-hearted, especially during some gruesome scenes of extreme horror. The music score also adds to a strange atmosphere by using very light themes during the heaviest scenes and rather disturbing sounds during rather comedic scenes but especially by not always using this technique, so that the viewer is constantly disoriented.The production value of the film is enhanced by director Joel M. Reed's ingenious ways lighting, use of darkness and thus suggesting much more than there is without distracting from the story and the characters, but actually managing to add to the films atmosphere not in spite of, but because the limited budget. I very much doubt if the same wonderful result could be achieved, even today, over thirty years later, with a limitless budget and all the CGI effects in the world.The DVD includes, amongst many other things, a very revealing introduction by Lloyd Kaufman. Plus interviews with some of the actors and a highly informative audio-commentary by Eli Roth, director, writer and producer of such films as Cabin Fever and Hostel.

Hate on women time. There are b-movie's that want to be liked and watched with lots of respect for its "ART" and irreverence for political correctness. Then there is Blood Sucking Freaks, a movie that never asked you for your input or cared if it had a following.I watched this film with a drunken friend and band mate of mine in '92, on VHS; it had a funny impact on me, I hated it so much I couldn't stop laughing at the screen.Plot: S&M without the actual realism, so it's a statement of society? No. White slavery, and how it ruined women's lives? No. How a pervert and his demented friend, felt disrespected by a critic; while locking up naked women, and training them to torture and cannibalize? YES...This is the real plot, and it comes off as comical, and realistic; although not one actor is to blame for the poor script, but the bad acting doesn't take away from this movie.there is no sex. and no erotic scenesThe unprofessional way in which its produced, makes me want to only see this if I'm drunk again. So, thank gaud I am sober now and don't drink like I did as a young 20 something in the early start of my Rock band days.

Kevin Smith talked about this movie in a documentary. He said it was the nastiest movie he had ever seen. So I of course immediatley ordered it. He was right. It is really nasty. You couldn't make a movie like this these days.

It should come as no surprise that Troma has picked up this for distibution. It contains everything for which Troma is famed - bad acting, bad direction, poor plot (what little plot there is) gross special effects, gratuitous nudity, scenes of torture, mutilation and decapitation. If you like Troma, you will love this. The film starts with a bound and gagged naked woman being unloaded from a crate and then carries on in its relentless misogynistic way. Women are stripped naked and then abused in all sorts of ways. One woman is used as a dining table while another is tortured into guillotining herself. Another woman has her skull crushed while another has her hand cut off, both of these in front of a specially invited audience. You may think by now that this is a negative review but it is in fact the opposite. This is a must-see for all fans of trash cinema. The acting is laughable especially the actor who plays the most incompetent and lackadaisical cop ever to don the mantle of New York's Finest; and no horror film would be complete without the homicidal dwarf. The film really is quite laughable in places and should only be viewed after a few lagers and whiskey chasers.

this film is crazy, one of my favourites. Buy it, enjoy it!

Plenty of action,thrills and spills in this cult movie which is strictly for devotees of exploitation cinema,otherwise give it a miss

Believe it or not, a motion picture with such a grotesque title as "Bloodsucking Freaks" (but which had been filmed as "Sardu, Master of the Screaming Virgins", then retitled "The Incredible Torture Show" for its original theatrical run) is, essentially, a ballet film, although there are only really a few minutes (central and climactic ones, however) of the crazed, ballerina-topless, murderously sadistic moments of dancing. One of two kidnapped ballerinas, Natasha, after having been tortured and brainwashed, in order to avoid having her feet chainsawed off, like those of her celebrated colleague, becomes the sado-masochistic love-slave of Sardu, the ugly white slaver entrepreneur, among whose murderous accomplices is the sadistic black dwarf, Ralphus.As the climax of a choreographed ballet routine, Natasha kicks to death a bound captive critic (for real, folks!) with repeatedly powerfully swinging dance motions of her vicious, long, muscular, Terpsichorean-trained trotters. This is the best moment of the film, indeed, its very core, even if the ballet dancing is less skillful than that of the likes of Dame Margot Fonteyn, Maria Tallchief, Alicia Alonso, or Karen Kain. As for the other female dancer in the story, the one whose feet the dwarf has sawn off, that victim is left lugubriously to drag her bleeding stumps, her body facedown, across a floor revoltingly grotty with filth and gore. The principal ballerina, Natasha, for her part, having become a willing minion of Sardu, slays her gorgeous sports-celebrity boyfriend, Tom, stealthily lobbing an axe into the back of his handsome head while Tom has been trying to rescue her -- and a detective, too -- from Sardu. Unbeknownst to Tom, Sardu had become Natasha's new master and lover. Then there also are the awaiting threats from Sardu's minions and from his now liberated crazed she-demon cannibalistic, naked female caged horde, whose vengeance brings the movie to a close in a collective frenzy of vindictively murderous, cannibalistic violence.There is lots more that flogs, viciously tortures, cannibalises, guillotines, amputates, and brutalises variously and bloodily its way through the length of the film. "Bloodsucking Freaks" is tasteless, explicit, exploitative, and grotesque. In a word, this is one of the best movies of its kind, even compared to a non-dance film that recounts, abounding in sex, voyeurism, sadistic torments, and, in its case, drugs too, a somewhat similarly memorable tale, "The Sinful Dwarf" (the original Scandanavian title of which is "Dvaergen"), which features a far uglier and weirder Caucasian midget.By obtaining "the Collector's Edition Director's Cut" DVD (the North American edition being Troma Team Video DVD-9830), including numerous bonus features, the viewer can savour this strange film even further than by watching it, in full (and, admittedly, in more or less comparable visual quality) on YouTube. The reader knows if such movies as the one here reviewed and another singled out in this review for brief comparison are the kind of cult films (of "high camp" sensibility) that he likes best, i.e. movies which are so bad that, in their perverse ways, they are good!