Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40378 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-10-01
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: NTSC
• Original language: English
• Running time: 80 minutes

Video Details
The world's only turkey-monster/anti-drug/pro-Jesus/gore film! Musclebound Herschel (former Tarzan Steve Hawkes) falls under the spell of bad girl Ann when she offers him some weed. Now a writhing, spastic addict, the big galoot works at a turkey farm where he's fed meat treated with an experimental drug and naturally turns into a man with a giant turkey head. Who also gobbles. Still hungry for a fix, Herschel-the-Turkey-Man attacks fellow drug addicts whose blood he drinks with his pointy little turkey beak. He even buzzsaws the leg off a pusher who holds his stump and howls for what seems like days. Punctuated by philosophical pondering by co-director Brad Grinter (Flesh Feast), this is a monster movie unlike any other, a jaw-dropping milestone in crackpot filmmaking, and the ultimate cinematic turkey. Gobble-gobble!

Review
This bizarre, Florida-lensed oddity attempts to be an ecology-themed monster movie, a sensationalistic exploitation item, and a religious anti-drug propaganda piece all at once, but the resulting mess doesn't get anywhere near succeeding at these aims. Technical credits are generally awful; the photography is grainy and poorly lit and the editing is choppy. Even the sound effects are bad; the same scream is used over and over during the scare scenes. The film also suffers from inept acting (leading man Steve Hawkes is particularly wooden) and dialogue that would make even the best actors look silly. Despite all these problems, Blood Freak is guaranteed to entertain fans of cinematic misfires because it is bad in such a strange and uniquely creative way. It is full of touches that push the film out of the realm of mere bad filmmaking and into the realm absurdly surreal. For instance, the narration delivered on camera by director Brad Grinter mixes scientific mumbo-jumbo and brain-damaged mysticism in a manner worthy of Criswell and the title creature's sublimely goofy design must be seen to be (dis)believed. In the end, Blood Freak's thorough ineptitude is likely to frustrate most viewers but any brave soul with a yen for filmmaking at its most misguided will find plenty to be amused by with this one-of-a-kind effort. ~ Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide

On the DVD
Digitally remastered
Original theatrical trailer
Bonus blood drenched horror trailers
The Walls Have Eyes featurette
Short subjects
Ghastly gallery of ghoulish comic cover art with music by the Dead Evil

Customer Reviews

Caution: Extremely Fowl Movie!
This movie is absolutely sublime. If you appreciate truly terrible cinema, you MUST order this turkey now! Right now! This movie has it all! Terrible plot, awful dialogue, wooden acting (I am convinced some of the actors are actually made of wood), and THE most ridiculous monster in movie history, period. The plot revolves around Herschell, an ex Vietnam vet biker who gets involved with some pretty unsavory situations in the diabolical and powerful poultry industry, but thanks to the Grintner treatment, we never quite understand what is going on, and confusion reigns.

As bad as this sounds there is so much more that combines on so many levels to make this one of the very worst of the worst. This is worse than anything by Ed Wood or Al Adamson. My favorite diversions in the movie are twofold. First, director Brad Grintner (you see a lot more of him in the DVD extras) narrates this whole mess with a pro-religion, anti-drug, anti-giant mutant murdering turkey monologue, which I could make neither heads nor tails of. In the manner of William 'One Shot' Beaudine and Ray Dennis Steckler, he clearly did the narrative all in the first take, so you get a bonus of Grintner lighting cigarettes, smoking, and having horrible hacking coughing fits on camera. The second delicious diversion in the film is the scene right after Herschell becomes the turkey monster when he reunites with his girlfriend. I won't spoil it for you, but it's certainly a scene that you will never forget. I won't say more on the subject other than that I guarantee that you will love this film.

Also of note are all the extras, including a documentary on poultry farming, and other short subjects, two of which must be singled out for special mentions: "Brad Grintner: Nudist" is a short featuring Grintner and pals frolicking in the buff (note: this will NOT arouse you in any way); and, "Narcotics, Pit of Despair!" starring Kevin Tighe, future star (as Roy DeSoto) of TV's hit show "Emergency!" from the late seventies. Here he plays John Scott, a good looking high school student hooked on all sorts of bad stuff. Of course drug addiction is a terrible thing, and not to be mocked, but you are allowed a few smirks in this heavy-handed anti-drug film.

Just say no to drugs, but say yes to this movie. It is an inspired work of utter brilliance; in its own fowl way.

Greatest bad Movie, EVER
If you like bad movies/B movies you will love this movie, and if you don't well I think you shouldn't even waste your time reading this review.

Horrible acting, very obvious fake gore, laugh out loud monster, weird dialog, unbelievable characters, and a "twist ending". This movie has everthing that makes a movie so bad its good.

the dvd is packed with extras noted above. If you are a bad movie fan you must see this film!!!

Giving the DVD a 5 and I've only seen the VHS!
I willingly spent 30 of my hard-earned dollars to own a copy of this film when you only could get it on VHS. so all I own is the film itself, a film that brought me and ten of my friends into full-blown MST3K mode when we saw it once (complete with rewinding and watching a couple scenes over and over because they were so bad). A friend of mine had thought to bring PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE because he thought it was bad, but quickly yielded. This was worse. Obviously. And therein lies its beauty.

The fact that the DVD contains something entitled "Brad Grinter: Nudist" puts it into the realm of the sublime.