Bloodsucking Freaks

1976 "Join The Fun! Human Dart Boards! "Home Style Brain Surgery" Dental Hijinks!"
4.7| 1h25m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 03 November 1976 Released
Producted By: Troma Entertainment
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.troma.com/films/bloodsucking-freaks/
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Sardu, master of the Theatre of the Macabre, and his assistant Ralphus run a show in which, under the guise of 'magic', they torture and murder people in front of their audience. But what the punters see as a trick is actually real.

Genre

Horror, Comedy

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Director

Joel M. Reed

Production Companies

Troma Entertainment

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  • Crew
Viju Krem as Natasha Di Natalie
Luis De Jesus as Ralphus
Ellen Faison as Sardu's Assistant - Straight Hair

Bloodsucking Freaks Audience Reviews

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
tdrish 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!
begob Slave trader by day, sadistic theatre impresario by night, Sardu kidnaps a famous ballerina and forces her to dance in his latest production, bringing down the wrath of her superstar footballer boyfriend and a corrupt cop.Yes, it is that bonkers - and enjoyable too.The acting is mostly weak, but the lead performance is suitably camp. And the pace is good. Above all the humour - not a laugh a minute, but there are genuinely funny moments. Plus a rather good scene with a guillotine.I often find this type of film dull, but they got the right balance here. The gore was campy enough not to make me turn away, and while there was plenty of nudity and s&m the film didn't have a mean bone in its body. Apart from all the torture, murder and dismemberment.One oddity: the actor playing Sardu was murdered in the following year, which fits with the sordid atmosphere of New York in the '70s.
Woodyanders Rating highly as a prime piece of raw'n'revolting 70's grindhouse sleaze, gleefully wallowing in the utmost depths of depravity with a certain jolly mean-spiritedness that's both fiercely funny and genuinely appalling in equal measure, this infamous cult splatter shocker delivers exactly what it promises in its foul tale of merry sadist Master Sardu (marvelously essayed with lip-smacking hammy brio by Seamus O'Brien) and his theatre of the macabre where he presents a "faked" Grand Guignal stage show depicting extreme acts of torture and depravity. Writer/director Joel M. Reed definitely gives the audience their grubby money's worth: brain sucking through a straw, dismemberment, snarling nude cannibal gals locked in a cage, nipple electric shock, a white slaver ring, gay necrophilia, fried eyeballs, grisly teeth extraction with pliers, vicious S&M whippings, a harsh'n'hateful misogynistic streak, oodles of bare female flesh, and one of the most repulsive examples of forced fellatio ever committed to celluloid are all present and accounted for. Moreover, the cast attack the blithely base and tasteless material with unfettered aplomb: Diminutive porn stud Luis De Jesus has a fiendish field day as Sardu's savage dwarf assistant Ralphus, Dan Fauci contributes an amusing turn as meddlesome blackmailing Sergeant John Tucci, Alan Dellay makes for a perfectly obnoxious jerk as uptight snob critic Creasy Silo, and lovely blonde Viju Krem is suitably sweet and fragile as fetching abducted ballerina Natasha D'Natalie. The authentically grubby New York City locations, Ron Dorfman's basic cinematography, a hilariously cruel sense of spot-on pitch-black gallows humor (this fine fetid flick is essentially a remarkably dark satire on the seamy underbelly of show business), and Michael Small's alternately jaunty and shivery synthesizer score further enhance this gloriously ghastly atrocity's considerable uniquely gross and repugnant charm. Absolutely essential viewing for sick cinema buffs.
toyman1967 I just got done watching this vile, disgusting, utterly repulsive piece of cinema............and I loved it!!!!!! This MUST be the inspiration for Eli Roth's Hostel. There are MANY OMG moments in this "movie" but my favorites were the "doctor" drinking the brains and blood out of a woman's skull with a straw, the midget getting "head" from a decapitated body and the "ass" dartboard. Listen for the sound effects when the midget pulls the darts out. UGH!!!!! The makers of this movie are not what we call normal. They set out to make a nauseating, sick, perverted movie and they succeeded on doing just that. I like my horror movies off-the-wall and that describes this one to a tee. If that is your type of horror film, then this is for you. The Jason, Freddy and Michael Myers type need not apply.