Also known as Blood Rites.
Well, no promises. That’s my intro to this, a random entry I could find online from the infamous DPP list of Video Nasties. These were the 39 actually prosecuted movies that ended up in court. Luckily a lot of them crossover with other things I’ve watched, such as a bunch of these are also Zombie series movies. Here’s the list. Underlined titles are what I have seen, complete with links:
- Absurd also known as Monster Hunter, Anthropophagus 2, and Horrible
- Anthropophagous: The Beast also known as The Grim Reaper, Man Beast, Man-Eater, and The Savage Island
- Axe also known as Lisa, Lisa and California Axe Massacre
- A Bay of Blood also known as Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood Bath and Bay of Blood
- The Beast in Heat
- Blood Feast
- Blood Rites also known as The Ghastly Ones
- Bloody Moon
- The Burning
- Cannibal Apocalypse also known as Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
- Cannibal Ferox also known as Make Them Die Slowly
- Cannibal Holocaust
- The Cannibal Man
- Devil Hunter
- Don't Go in the Woods
- The Driller Killer
- Evilspeak
- Exposé also known as House on Straw Hill
- Faces of Death
- Fight for Your Life
- Flesh for Frankenstein also known as Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
- Forest of Fear also known as Toxic Zombies and Bloodeaters
- Gestapo's Last Orgy also known as Last Orgy of the Third Reich and Caligula Reincarnated As Hitler
- The House by the Cemetery
- The House on the Edge of the Park
- I Spit on Your Grave also known as Day of the Woman
- Island of Death also known as Devils in Mykonos and A Craving For Lust
- The Last House on the Left
- Love Camp 7
- Madhouse (but not the one I watched!) also known as There Was a Little Girl
- Mardi Gras Massacre
- Nightmares in a Damaged Brain also known as Nightmare
- Night of the Bloody Apes
- Night of the Demon
- Snuff
- SS Experiment Camp also known as SS Experiment Love Camp
- Tenebrae also known as Unsane
- The Werewolf and the Yeti also known as Night of the Howling Beast
- Zombie Flesh Eaters also known as Zombie and Zombi 2
This is mostly so that I do not have to keep looking it up myself. So like I said, a lot of the Zombie series is on here and a lot of other random stuff I've seen like The Burning and Night of the Demon.
Plot wise this movie is the admittedly overdone "buncha people can inherit a fortune if they stay overnight in the creepy house" or whatever. Fuck, I wonder what the originator of that is? We've seen it before. Its completely incongruous with the insanity of the first 5 minutes in which video nasty becomes apparent as a insane man with a meat cleaver murders two people in the woods.
Which I'll say...is fucking NUTS with sped up footage and really great effects, its downright unsettling and no wonder it was censored! And that nutcase is the helper at the house the family has to stay at. A few minutes later we have ahead of its time topless scenes and Texas Chainsaw-esque just like disturbing mental disease and/or weirdness which is not to be underrated in terms of creep factor. There's also a pretty violent rape scene that begins later and its like....yikes.
This is barely 70 minutes long and with all that stuff going on it flies by. This feels like half a talky Agatha Christie early 60s "horror" and half a mid late 70s exploitation flick. No wonder they freaked out! The insane parts are really insane and then the rest is calm as a pleasant stream. Which is to say its uneven 1000%, it barely gets more uneven than this.
But there is one more thing to say, and I would not have expected it. This is also a huge proto slasher. Absolutely. This has a body count with a mysterious masked killer, it has a big reveal at the end with a exposition dump concerning the "why" of it all, it is hugely in that vein.
This movie is many many things, and all in all that's jam-packed into 70 minutes and suffice to say like, you will have a good time. With one of the many things this is. So I dunno what else to give it...?
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