Rent Brain of Blood (1971)
1.7 of 5 from 50 ratings
1h 26min
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- Synopsis:
In the late 1960s and early 70s, a bizarre alliance between the Filippino movie company Hemisphere and the American exploitation outfit Independent International yielded a series of weirdly interconnected horror movies, most of which work the word Blood into the title. The Filippino items are strangely fascinating vampire and mad scientist pictures with oddball colour effects and a mix of naive serial-style thrills and extreme-for-the-era sex and gore; the American efforts, from director Al Adamson, are shoddier, thrown together from offcuts of previous pictures, and are lead-paced but nevertheless curiously appealing. Gaze in awe at mutant killer trees, slobbering hunchbacked servants, faded matinee idols, stripper-turned-actress heroines with concrete blonde hairdos, evil dwarves, John Carradine or Lon Chaney, footage cut in from completely different films, Dracula and Frankenstein meeting hippies and bikers, red filters when the vampires attack, chanting natives! - Actors:
- Grant Williams, Kent Taylor, John Bloom, Regina Carrol, Vicki Volante, Angelo Rossitto, Reed Hadley, Zandor Vorkov, Richard Smedley, Gus Peters, Margo Hope, Bruce Kimball, Irv Saunders, Alex Elliot, Sean Graver
- Directors:
- Al Adamson
- Producers:
- Al Adamson, Samuel M. Sherman
- Writers:
- Samuel M. Sherman, Joe Van Rodgers
- Studio:
- Cinema Club
- Genres:
- Classics, Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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- Release Date:
- Not released
- Run Time:
- 88 minutes
