When you're rushing to get a gory movie, the easiest way to find
what you're looking for is to, uh, go for blood. But watch out,
because not all movies that start with the word "blood" are equally
horrifying. Here's a crib sheet to keep with you on that last
minute dash to the video store. Blood (1971) Blood and Black Lace (1964) Blood and Guns (1968) Blood Harvest (1986) Blood of a Poet (1930) Blood Sabbath (1972) Blood Spattered Bride (1972) Bloodsuckers From Outer Space (1984) Bloodsucking Freaks (1978) Bloodsucking Pharoahs in Pittsburgh (1990) If you really love blood: Hunt down Darkness (1992). It features "300 gallons of fake blood and exploding
heads." Where are those folks from the Guinness Book of World's Records when you need them? - Sarah Armour and Neil Gladstone
Bloodbath
Rosemary Dexter imagines her psychiatrist-lover is a psycho killer.
It's only scary if you're one of those '70s chicks who fell in
love with her shrink. This movie also makes the perfect Mother's
Day gift.
Remember to bring this one along to your next Sisters of Mercy
fan club meeting. It's a goth's dream come true.
A political Western with Orson Welles. If you want to see something
really scary with Orson Welles in it, track down those old wine commercials
he was in - you'll be witnessing a genius at the end of his rope.
Blood Feast (1963)
Herschell Gordon Lewis' gruesome tale of an Egyptian caterer and
a limping psychopath. You'll rent it for the blood, you'll keep
it for the splatter.
Tiny Tim stars as "Marvelous Mervo," a man who lurks around in
clown makeup, ties up girls and cuts throats. (Rent this and you'll
find out where the "Tiny" nickname came from.) You'll understand
what Tiny Tim was really all about after seeing this one.
This is false advertising at its worst. Someone ought to sue Jean
Cocteau for trying to sell a pretentious art-flick to horror fans
by just sticking "Blood" in the title.
Tony Geary (of General Hospital fame) stars as a hitchhiking Vietnam vet who's terrorized by
naked hippies. It includes blood drinking, baby-killing flashbacks
and topless dancing - what more could you ask for?
Blood Song (1979)
Frankie Avalon in the role he was born to play - a flute-loving
axe murderer. Make this a double feature with Blood Harvest.
Lesbian vampires on the prowl! Let's hear a big Marv Albert "Yesshhhh!"
Texas farmers turn into bloodsuckers. Is this a horror flick or
an X-Files episode?
Any movie where someone's brains are sucked out through a straw
deserves an Oscar for "Best Use of Utensil."
All those magazine surveys that tell you Pittsburgh is such a
wonderful place to live forget to mention the bloodsucking pharaohs.