Wonderful character development!

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Best movie ever!

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Listen up. If you dig far enough into the 70's trash bin of foul and disgusting movies that are equally forgettable, you're going to find Bloodsucking Freaks, a toast to all who love to see women get tortured and murdered for no apparent reason. Sound like your cup of tea? Maybe you should have your mental health examined, whatever is left. Cult followers of this mound of gorilla dung will dig the senseless humor and offensive view of gores that are delivered, however, the vast majority of the population can safely bypass this one up. 97 percent of the film is torture porn, the other 3 percent is the story line. ( If you think I'm joking, then I suppose it must be seen to be believed, or you can just take my word for it, which I strongly suggest. This is damn near impossible to watch!) I don't like torture movies in general, but I did watch Bloodsucking Freaks years ago...somebody rented it back in the day when we had these little things called video stores ( you know, before the internet came along and screwed that all up!) Bloodsucking Freaks is far from anything intelligent. Just like the title may suggest, it's as dumb it sounds. Women are literally flown in shipment cargo boxes and tortured in front of live audiences just for shoots and giggles. Somebody wouldn't give Sardu a good review, which pisses him off, and in retaliation, he wants to force one of his victims to dance with him...uh, do you think I'm making this up? Even I couldn't make up something as messed up as this! His assistant is Ralphus, who stands about two feet tall...what kind of a threat as he, anyways? Together, they run the Theater Of Macabre. And this actually makes money for some odd reason. An odd investigation follows, which renders totally useless, especially since the investigator is more crooked then a New York politician...probably cranked out from the same assembly line. The violence executed is poor quality, obviously fake as hell, but nevertheless still offensive. So proceed with caution, and hopefully, I have talked you out of watching or renting this abomination of a movie. Thank you, and good night!

A film that seemingly has no other goal than shocking and offending its audience, "Blood Sucking Freaks" (the lack of a hyphen is annoying) must be deemed a complete success. From first scene to last, this is a picture that gleefully parades its repugnant, gross-out set pieces and depraved characters for the viewer's questionable delectation. Initially appearing in 1976 under the title "The Incredible Torture Show" (a better, more apropos appellation, I feel; "Blood Sucking Freaks" suggests that a vampire type of story will be unreeling, which this film most certainly is not), it was later renamed by those wackos at Troma, which released the film on VHS and DVD with the memorable admonition "Warning: This film contains scenes of freaks sucking blood." Something of a legendary bad-taste cult item for almost 40 years now, the film recently surprised me on my initial viewing. Yes, the film is as crude, misogynistic and offensive as its reputation would suggest, but fortunately, much of the distasteful subject matter is played for laughs, the acting (for the most part) is surprisingly decent, and the production values are, well, just good enough.The plot, such as it is, concerns a Grand Guignol-style show run by the despicable Sardu (the unforgettable Seamus O'Brien) in his Soho, NYC-based Theatre of the Macabre. What audience members fail to realize, however, is that all the tortures and murders shown on stage are real, as Sardu and his assistant Ralphus (Luis De Jesus, here playing the most hateful "little person" since Torben Bille's Olaf in the 1973 Danish film "The Sinful Dwarf") gleefully do away with some of the gals in Sardu's white slavery collection. When critic Creasy Silo (Alan Dellay) belittles the show from the audience, Sardu has him kidnapped, along with Lincoln Center ballerina Natasha Di Natalie (Viju Krem), to be the future stars in his next production. Can Natasha's hunky-dude, pro football player boyfriend Tom Maverick (Niles McMaster), aided by dirty cop John Tucci (Dan Fauci), track down the pretty blonde before Sardu tortures her into cooperation and brainwashes her into mindlessness?If "Blood Sucking Freaks" truly does set out to be the sickest film ever made, it surely leaves little out in its determination to be so. It is the type of film that might embarrass the viewer as to just WHY he/she is watching it, and yet, as mentioned, it does have entertainment value, twisted and repulsive as it is. Just about every single scene in the film stuns, sickens, revolts, amazes or amuses the viewer; it is a completely unpredictable experience. The film's director, Joel M. Reed, actually does a competent job (Reed also wrote the script for this thing), and some real kudos must be given to Michael Sahl, whose creepy, appropriately cabaret-style piano theme goes a long way in creating an unpleasant mood. Thankfully, the special FX for the film are decidedly on the cheesy side. Realistic FX for the bloody carnage that the film dishes out would have been just too much to look at; the cheese factor, fortunately, helps take the edge off. OK, I'm going to give you a laundry list, now, of just some of the things you might expect to see in this film. Yes, they might constitute spoilers of a sort, but your reaction to the following items will in large part determine your suitability to venture into this film to begin with. Thus, in "Blood Sucking Freaks," we get to see an iron tourniquet squeezing a head; a hand sawn off; the gouging out and eating of a human eyeball; imprisoned cannibal women eating raw meat; a human dining table; S&M; nipple electrocution; noise torture; a crazed doctor who pulls a woman's teeth out, then drills into the poor unfortunate's brain and sucks out her cranial fluid with a straw (perhaps the sickest moment of the film, and one which even manages to gross out Sardu and Ralphus!); those same cannibal chicks disemboweling and devouring a man, while Ralphus capers about and cheers them on; a game of darts on a woman's naked posterior; torture on the rack; a guillotining; a game of backgammon with chopped-off fingers used as betting counters; the chainsawing of a pair of feet; Sardu's ballet, in which a man is kicked repeatedly in the face to death; Ralphus frying up a panful of eyeballs; and, of course, necrophilia (I did say that the film leaves little out to offend the viewer, right?). If this inventory of shockers seems to be your cup of (Red Zinger) tea, then "Blood Sucking Freaks" might just be the movie for you. Surely not a film to watch with your Aunt Petunia, the picture really is as sick as they come.For viewers today, "Blood Sucking Freaks" is available via a nicely packaged DVD from Troma Entertainment, loaded with hilarious extras. (The extensive tour of the Troma facilities in Hell's Kitchen, NYC is a riot!) The Troma motto happens to be "Movies of the Future," and if the cinema of years to come really is similar to the film under discussion, audiences truly have every reason for concern. Proceed with caution here....

Lets face it, for 1976 there were probably no movies around like this. The exploitation and overall rediculousness of the movie is quite ahead for the time. The movie has an insane amount of torture and nudity, which is... OK? The movie did not have good acting, and I thought the plot was weak. There's over the top movies, and then there's the point where your skipping ahead cuz its getting too repetitive.In the end, if you wanna see a movie with 1976 grade torture effects and lots of nudity and over the top exploitation. See it. If you're looking for a movie with decent acting, plot, or simply diversion its not your movie.

Jesus H. Christ!! What on Earth was that I just watched?!?Sardu is a sado-masochist who just happens to run a stage show called The Theatre of the Macabre. Ralphus is his assistant, a midget with a sadistic streak and a taste for blood. Together they prepare shows which the audience think are make believe, but which are in fact (drum roll please), reality. Women - usually naked - are tortured and dismembered live on stage, and the audience applaud wildly.None stop sleave, gore and violence from start to finish, if you can cope with the extreme levels of misogyny on display, you're in for a treat.Distributed by Troma - truly the masters of the exploitation flick - this is a tour de force of bad taste: Feral women in a cage eating human flesh, thumb screws, dismemberments, whipping, beheadings, this has the lot. The lead characters are a joy, and really seem to be having a good time in their roles. There's a good line in black comedy too, and the matter of fact way they carry on with their sick and sordid business is nothing if not entertaining. Not for the faint hearted, this is an exploitation cult classic.Loved it.