Blood Diner
1987 Directed by Jackie Kong
Synopsis
Two cannibalistic brothers kill various young women to make their flesh part of their new special dish at their rundown restaurant while seeking blood sacrifices to awaken a dormant Egyptian goddess.
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"He is armed and dangerous, and has been spotted in the West Side area, armed with a meat cleaver in one hand and his genitals in the other."
This movie is bizarre. If you have heard nothing about it and have seen no clips of the movie and go into this with nothing more than the knowledge of the poster art, you're likely to lose your mind. That's the experience I had with this one.
Insane. That's the only word to describe it. I'm honestly surprised I hadn't seen this movie sooner, it seems to have been forgotten by the horror genre, which is a shame because for a genre fan there is a lot to enjoy here. Jimmy Hitler…
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I was expecting a little more from this. It has it’s moments for sure, but most of the film is a little boring which something like this should never be. The ending is great as things go a bit mental at a rock show including a woman with a giant mout in her stomach killing people. There needed to be more stuff like this throughout and there unfortunately isn’t. The story is basically HG Lewis’ Blood Feast and doesn’t have anything much going for it. There is a strange scene with a bunch of topless cheerleaders dancing about for no real reason who are then machine gunned down. A bit of a let down for me.
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Sloppy (on many levels) gore comedy loosely related to Herschel Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast. Gloopy buckets of fun!
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Every generation thinks they did <INSERT NAME OF THING HERE> best. In my case, the late 70's—80's is pretty much the best generation for horror. DON'T DISPUTE ME! We gave the world VHS tapes and then the direct video market, which made insane shit like this possible! This level of weirdness is gone! Kids these days.... they don't know shit.
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Apart from the bad acting, the movie was way too fast, too long and too chaotic and the gore wasn't done properly, so didn't enjoy that either. Too bad, 'cause the one liners on the poster and the plot sounded good.
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Nothing can prepare you for Blood Diner, not even seeing it - my mom rented this for me when I was probably ten years old. I was recovering from some minor surgery, saw a window of opportunity in her sympathetic nature, and decided to go for broke at the video store: Blood Diner! We popped some of that shitty microwave popcorn (and it burned the way it always used to burn in those old microwaves that didn't have properly calibrated popcorn settings) and sat down prepared to be horrified. Blood Diner delivered, in the extreme - my mom shut it off after about twenty minutes, and while I protested with the volume and passion I felt was expected of me,…
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"He is armed and dangerous, and has been spotted in the West Side area, armed with a meat cleaver in one hand and his genitals in the other."
This movie is bizarre. If you have heard nothing about it and have seen no clips of the movie and go into this with nothing more than the knowledge of the poster art, you're likely to lose your mind. That's the experience I had with this one.
Insane. That's the only word to describe it. I'm honestly surprised I hadn't seen this movie sooner, it seems to have been forgotten by the horror genre, which is a shame because for a genre fan there is a lot to enjoy here. Jimmy Hitler…
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There are limited words that can describe this film. It tends to be genrefied as a "horror" flick, but it really cannot be contained within those bounds. It could easily be screened at midnight showings once a month to a packed house. If you find it batshit weird after the first 10 minutes, there's nothing I can do to help you.
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I was expecting a little more from this. It has it’s moments for sure, but most of the film is a little boring which something like this should never be. The ending is great as things go a bit mental at a rock show including a woman with a giant mout in her stomach killing people. There needed to be more stuff like this throughout and there unfortunately isn’t. The story is basically HG Lewis’ Blood Feast and doesn’t have anything much going for it. There is a strange scene with a bunch of topless cheerleaders dancing about for no real reason who are then machine gunned down. A bit of a let down for me.
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The fun kind of bad movie.
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Sloppy (on many levels) gore comedy loosely related to Herschel Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast. Gloopy buckets of fun!
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After chatting briefly with Patrick Sandberg, I jumped straight on to Amazon.com and ordered one of those six pack horror sets, as I only had a worn old video copy of Blood Diner and it's an old fave of mine.
And it was just as much fun as I remembered it. :)
I'd forgotten just how good the smarmy cop is too!
My biggest concern was getting three movies on one disc, as I thought they'd be so compressed that the quality would drop right off, but I needn't have worried, the picture quality was very good. -
Every generation thinks they did <INSERT NAME OF THING HERE> best. In my case, the late 70's—80's is pretty much the best generation for horror. DON'T DISPUTE ME! We gave the world VHS tapes and then the direct video market, which made insane shit like this possible! This level of weirdness is gone! Kids these days.... they don't know shit.
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Apart from the bad acting, the movie was way too fast, too long and too chaotic and the gore wasn't done properly, so didn't enjoy that either. Too bad, 'cause the one liners on the poster and the plot sounded good.
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So this is pretty much a MAD Magazine approach to horror, with more gags and gross-outs per second than most movies have throughout their entire running time. It reminded me a little bit of Tsui Hark's We're Going To Eat You, although Blood Diner is a much more sustained exercise in bad taste than that movie ever hoped to be.