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BLOOD FRENZY

1987 • US HMDB
October 10, 1987

A psychologist takes a group of patients into the desert for unorthodox therapy only for them to be picked off by an unseen maniac.

Directors

Hal Freeman

Cast

Wendy MacDonald as Dr. Barbara Shelley

Wendy MacDonald

Dr. Barbara Shelley

Tony Montero

Rick Carlson

 Lisa Loring as Dory

Lisa Loring

Dory

Lisa Savage

Cassie

 Hank Garrett as Dave Ash

Hank Garrett

Dave Ash

Monica Silveria

Jean

 John Clark as Crawford

John Clark

Crawford

Chuck Rhae

Lonnie

Carl Tignino

Dory's Father

J'Aime Cohen

Little Dory

Eddie Laufer

Little Lonnie

Claire Cassano

Waitress
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Production: Hal Freeman (Producer)
Screenplay: Ted Newsom (Writer) — Ray Dennis Steckler (Story)
Music: John Gonzales (Music)
Cinematography: Richard Pepin (Director of Photography)

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Based on a novel by Arthur La Bern, the story talks about a sexual maniac who enjoys killing, in beloved London, beautiful women using a tie. A racy and perverse thriller as only the master knew how to do. Jon Finch plays well in the role of a former RAF officer, wrongly accused of the crime, even better Barbara Leigh-Hunt, ex-wife of this man who during the struggle with the killer shows a breast and various nudities praying to God. But watching the film, one understands that the best Hitchcock is not this one, if one thinks that the seventies were the years of the "animalistic" Argentine trilogy, one really does not know where to place this film by the English master. Splendid the scene in which a killer (Alec McCowen) is forced to travel in a van full of potatoes to steal a brooch closed in the mortuary rigidity of the corpse he has hidden there. Inappropriate, however, the pompous and classicizing music that does not instill tension at all. It was the penultimate work of "Hitch".
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Wuchak

Wuchak

5 /10

Hammy slasher in the Mojave Desert

A Los Angeles psychologist takes six troubled patients (three men and three women) out to an isolated mine in the arid wasteland, but the situation turns ugly when someone’s neck is slashed.

“Blood Frenzy” (1987) has an engaging set-up and a unique location for a slasher. While the tone is too exaggerated and mixed with droll humor to take very seriously, the characters are fleshed out enough to make them interesting.

Masculine Tony Montero is effective as a Vietnam Vet with PTSD while petite Lisa Savage is a highlight on the female front. Meanwhile Lisa Loring (Wednesday from The Addams Family) is striking as an adult and very good at playing a biyatch. Actually, she might do it too well, not to mention she hams it up a little too much in the last act.

An eye-rolling sapphic episode in a dirty cave (off camera, for the most part) dooms any possibility of taking the flick seriously. Why Sure! Still, there are some positives if you like 80’s slashers and don’t mind low-budget ones released direct-to-video. Think “Sands of the Kalahari” if it were a low-rent slasher.

The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot entirely on location at Calico Mines, Barstow, SoCal, which is a 2-hour drive northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.

GRADE: C

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