Synopsis
When he whistles this tune... The time for killing begins.
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
1982 Directed by Alan J. Levi
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
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Hypnosis via the layering of wooden panelling/walks on the beach mundanity, small talk procedural conversations and lifetime thriller melodrama with blood transfusion telepathy, weird eyeball scene transitions saturated in pink, forklift and black bin bag murder and Frankie Avalon as a psycho nutter obsessed with a weird flute.
Dramatic sentimental bollocks sliding between short trance-inducing synth loops and built up yet unrealised subplots of mental illness, disability and alcoholism. Just layers and layers of things that don't mesh at all forced higher and higher until they grow into a giant slasher tiramisu slathered in video static that becomes so heavy the layers fall into each other forcing the mesh to happen in a malaise of comfort, as Frankie Avalon evil laughs atop a fade to black.
I was too paralyzed over my general lack of knowledge of changes in the mental health care system between the 60s-70s to write this review yesterday. It occurred to me that it's never really ocurred to me the 'crazy unstoppable killer escaped' thing in horror might be related to people not really buying that chemical voodoo (that psychiatric drugs would fix everything) because I needed to first read five barely comprehensible articles.
Anyway, this was fine and had an unsettling score and some intetesting family drama which is made utterly worthless in the third act...I found myself thinking well, what was the point of making us care about that?
Later that day, I was reading this Girl Talk book, the…
Today has been a blast. Three great movies followed by two so-bad-they're-good movies. How do people come up with this stuff?
It'll be strange to explain the basic plot of this, because it doesn't explain much. It shows scenes and then just jumps to the next without any explanation, so I will try to put the pieces of this puzzle together to explain the genius behind this film's story.
We begin where a boy witnesses his father shooting himself, and then it pans over to the boy...who starts playing a flute.
A girl who is crippled has a boyfriend. (She walks with a cane and a leg brace.) Her dad ran her over or something, which is why she's crippled.…
HE TRIIIIIED TO KILL HER WITH A FORKLIFT!
It's day 23%!7 of BLOOD WEEK and put a tourniquet on it, we're done! And holy misleading poster! What genre even is this? It's kinda like if Halloween was a Lifetime stalker thriller instead of a horror, but then there's some pretty intense violence mixed with early 80s melodrama music you'd hear in a movie about like, competing softball players in love. (No that wasn't the blood song, but I kinda wish it was.) It's weird! Not the movie so much, just the tonal shifts.
This is nothing amazing, but it's a pretty easy late night watch. Has that old TV movie feel, just with a little more blood (not nearly as…
I always appreciate when people try to make a real movie while rolling around in the trash ghetto that is early 80s slashers. This works because the high schoolers actually look and act their age, and while the stakes aren't super high, the characters are likable enough to maintain some tension, even where visually the movie remains flat (save for some psychedelic transitions and a cool synth score). This excels because fuckin' Frankie Avalon is the killer, and he's having the time of his life. He even gets to say so in character, shouting, "THIS IS FUN!" while attempting to run over a child with a forklift.
A 1982 cat and mouse slasher featuring a killer who plays a recorder, it’s like those horrible memories of Sunday School have taken a turn for the worst!
Post JAWS 2 Donna Wilkes is our star here and leads the final girl role strong, avoiding many cliches and bringing a fun likeable character to the mix. Lenny Montana and Frankie Avalon join the cast to reel in fans of their careers. Avalon is our non disguised killer and shows his inner Ted Bundy as his heart throb looks help get victims through the window.
The film lacks surprise and twists but it lasts the course as a solid slasher that focuses on Wilkes and the cat and mouse game between her and the killer. A solid ending and some hardcore horror approved gore keeps it a worthwhile watch.
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This probably isn't a good movie but it does have Frankie Avalon having the time of his life as the killer so how can you hate it?
This one has some alright kills, a guy gets a axe to the head and another killed by a forklift. The synth music is great and works well during the chase scenes in that it adds intensity to them. Plus Frankie Avalon tries to run over a child with a forklift while shouting "THIS IS FUN" so its great.
Overall Blood Song is a silly slasher movie with cool synth music and a fun finale. This needs a Blu-ray since the quality is pretty bad to be honest. Despite that this is a fun movie.
Watch here: youtu.be/4WSbUTXWiUA?si=a2Wtt2nxgS1L86Bt
When death plays a flute...
Frankie Avalon is on the loose and smashes his axe in simply everyone who's gonna dislike that curious childhood song he's relooping every f**king time and Donna Wilkes - the cutie from JAWS 2 and SCHIZOID - has a telepathic connection to him and is haunted by visions of his bloody work since a blood donation, I guess. Sounds a little bit like Craven's SHOCKER, huh? The rest is just monotone stuff, but what makes BLOOD SONG so damn special is it's german (vhs-)dubbing, which is freakin' nuclear in so many ways. The crew acts extremely lethargic on the mic ... such a shame, but I laughed my ass off so many times ... not to forget that Frankie did a damn good performance as forklift-maniac, pretty similar to my mate Ovidio Mainardi.
I can't dislike this, it's so hilarious ❤
51/100
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One of those movies you can feel slipping out of your grasp the moment the credits roll--and there's nothing wrong with that! Generic in pretty much every way, but the set-pieces are fun enough and generic serial killer joint is my shit so I had a good time! If you like generic serial killer shit then you'll like this and if you don't you won't, simple as that. Though I've forgotten this already, it's a fun time and I'm glad I watched it.
Interesting in that this deals with disability and alcoholism through two of the main characters - a father and daughter, which are themes that are not too often explored as seriously or deeply in movies of this genre. These aspects aren't used later in the movie and kind of disregarded (surprisingly), but are fascinating nonetheless.
Then you have hilarious flute noises - made by a flute obsessed killer whose father had given it to him not long before he killed his wife and her lover, cheap looking psychic color transitions, cheesy over-the-top wall chewing acting, glorious freakouts, some good cat & mouse, and a completely nutzoid Frankie Avalon. Yeah, this is to say Blood Song is an interesting Slasher in the least.
This movie could be considered more drama thriller than slasher. However there was a horror element in this that made the slasher label valid, besides being considered a video nasty.
Blood Song started off strong but does a bit of stumbling when it came to the characters and the drama within the story. It felt a bit uneven and at times we were waiting more for the next kill to be triggered than anything else.
The effects in this were decent as we get some axe chopping and even a severed head reveal. Overall though, this was a decent watch. It'll be something worth checking out for who starred in it and the video nasty label to see why it was considered that.