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5.0 out of 5 stars
Citizen Kane, The Godfather and Bloodspit, July 15, 2008
This review is from: Bloodspit (DVD)
As my title suggests, this film is an instant classic, albeit, of the grindhouse/exploitation genre. The director Duke Hendrix has a keen eye for 70's foreign film sensibilities, with many of his shots portraying a perfect blend of atmosphere and parody. The narrative is as old as the ages, like Homer (or Ulysses depending on your historical preference) Count Bloodspit just wants to go home. Aided by his menagerie of kooky emo sluts, a scottish vampire with a foul mouth and temper, a wolfman who can't stop grooming his genitals and some weird geeky transvestite, he sets out on his way, but little does he know his arch nemesis Dr Ludvig and his assistant Mr Handsome, are hot on his trail.
Hendrix is a master craftsmen who uses his palette well, he seamlessly blends gore, sex, violence, atmosphere and humor to paint a picture worthy of remembering. Let's hope that Hollywood picks this guy up and lets him loose on one of the horror franchises or even better a Batman movie.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Thank God for Troma!, June 8, 2008
This review is from: Bloodspit (DVD)
Thank god for Troma. The titans of all things tasteless, tacky, and terrific are back with a film more than worthy of addition to their illustrious canon. Bloodspit is a fang fest of twisted depravity, a cacophony of decadent ear candy and a visual banquet of perversion. The story follows the crazed Dr Ludvic as he tries to steal the crest from Count Blaughspich's (aka Bloodspit's) coffin. Meanwhile the horny old count occupies his time by indulging in anomalous sex play with the female members of his castle in between bouts of an illness that gives him the death rattles, and constant pining for his homeland known as the "mirror world." Director, Duke Hendrix mashes a blend of John Waters, Andy Warhol's "Flesh for Frankenstein" and the "Munsters" into a toilet bowl of postmodern and old school mayhem. Hendrix and co writer Leon Fish, hang outrageous gags on a thin storyline that both tickle and fracture the funny bone. The beauty of such no budget films is that what they lack in money, they more than make up for in characterization and imagination. Bloodspit is a twisted, crazy vampire epic that not only follows the Ed Wood ethos, it embraces it. Viva la Troma!
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