Blood Frenzy
Horror • Mystery
Overview:
A psychologist takes a group of patients into the desert for unorthodox therapy only for them to be picked off by an unseen maniac.
Director:
Hal Freeman
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$0.00
Revenue:
Key words:
Cast
Wendy MacDonald
~ as ~
Dr. Barbara Shelley
Tony Montero
Rick Carlson
Lisa Loring
Dory
Lisa Savage
Cassie
Hank Garrett
Dave Ash
Monica Silveria
Jean
John Clark
Crawford
Chuck Rhae
Lonnie
Carl Tignino
Dory's Father
J'Aime Cohen
Little Dory
Wuchak
Written 2 year(s) ago
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Hammy slasher in the Mojave Desert
A Los Angeles psychologist takes six troubled patients (three men and three women) out to an isolated mine in the arid wasteland, but the situation turns ugly when someone’s neck is slashed.
“Blood Frenzy” (1987) has an engaging set-up and a unique location for a slasher. While the tone is too exaggerated and mixed with droll humor to take very seriously, the characters are fleshed out enough to make them interesting.
Masculine Tony Montero is effective as a Vietnam Vet with PTSD while petite Lisa Savage is a highlight on the female front. Meanwhile Lisa Loring (Wednesday from The Addams Family) is striking as an adult and very good at playing a biyatch. Actually, she might do it too well, not to mention she hams it up a little too much in the last act.
An eye-rolling sapphic episode in a dirty cave (off camera, for the most part) dooms any possibility of taking the flick seriously. Why Sure! Still, there are some positives if you like 80’s slashers and don’t mind low-budget ones released direct-to-video. Think “Sands of the Kalahari” if it were a low-rent slasher.
The film runs 1 hour, 27 minutes, and was shot entirely on location at Calico Mines, Barstow, SoCal, which is a 2-hour drive northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.
GRADE: C
