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Amateur film about a doctor who performs an illegal heart transplant only to have his drunken brother botch it. Film features actual open-heart surgery footage, as well as scenes of body painting and performance art.
Night of the Bloody Transplant
1970 Directed by David W. Hanson
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This is one of those super crude 'horror' movies made in the late 1960s where everything is filmed in rooms with wood paneling, and men wear black horn-rimmed glasses, and women do antiquated strip teases in cocktail clubs, while others lounge around their home in big bras and stretchy lace underpants. Like Hershel Gordon Lewis meets Something Weird Video, but more poorly executed. The transplant in the title is part of a plot about an ailing rich lady and a doctor who wants to earn fame and wealth as a daredevil heart surgeon who has created a new, experimental treatment. The transplant is bloody because it is actual heart surgery footage. Ugh. Come to think, this movie may exist just…
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November Horror 2020
15. Watch a film starting with the same three words as George A. Romero’s first and most popular film.Ooof. This was a rough one. This movie exists solely on the fact that the creators said "Hey, I have access to actual open heart surgery footage...how can we make a movie around that?"
This one was just bad. From the flat lighting and scenery, to the amateur acting, to the bad writing, to the scenes that go on way too long in clubs. And the sound leveling would tell me that the musicians are the ones that were working the sound board, as every seen has dialog that is drowned out with music.
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Long before the water in Flint, Michigan went bad, its regional horror movies were already there. Dr. Arnold is a visionary whose dream of transplanting human hearts is balked upon by his peers (despite successful heart transplants dating back at least three years) who refuse to greenlight it. A wealthy old woman not long for this world funds his research with hopes of being his first patient. Opportunity knocks in the form of his parasitic palooka of a brother, a punchy cocksmith who seemingly frequents every wood paneled basement lounge in Michigan with his barfly girlfriends. The well-documented entertainment ranges from inexcusably bad strippers and ass cheeks vocalists to near-nude interpretive dance on a paint splattered floor. Weep not for…
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Ancient gore film, made in a particularly snow bound looking Michigan, about a pioneering doctor whose attempts to perform a heart transplant are hindered by his peers, but aided by his trouble making brother, whose run in with a hooker leaves the Doc with an ideal candidate for heart surgery. Made by entrepreneurial regional filmmakers who even managed to talk real life policemen into being in the film. The tone is decidedly 'amateur theatre' occasionally enlivened by HG Lewis type splatter (as well as the vomitous inclusion of real life heart surgery footage) and padding designed to shine a light on local 'talent' ...tone deaf singers, burlesque dancers, nude body painting etc etc...giving you a rough idea of what passed for entertainment in chilly Michigan back then.
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Quick, cheap & sleazy. Fun little proto gore flick. Its very simple which allows it to achieve the feat of being entertaining. I love trash.
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The opening credits say that this was shot in VistaVision. It definitely was not…
This is actually a rather dull Michigan shot drama with a few spots of ‘real’ gore. Of greatest interest is the presence of some local musicians, but this is primarily filler. -
October Horrors 2013 #27:
Dull no-budget amateur film shot in Michigan. Doctor wants to do the first heart transplant for the little old lady who is paying his research bills, but he has to deal with the medical establishment who doesn't trust him; his nurse who wants to marry him; and his washed-up, brain-damaged boxer brother, who has a tendency to rough up his dates. When the boxer accidentally kills one of his dates, the doctor sees his opportunity to harvest her heart. Complications ensue, of course, leading to death, and a little bit of gore, but mostly boredom. There are also a couple of endless musical numbers, one of which features a beat-ass stripper dancing to an endless version of Night Train. Terrible and obscure, boring and not really worth watching.