Blood Freak
Blood Freak
R | 12 October 1972 (USA)
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A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister, then follows her to a turkey farm owned by her father, a mad scientist. The father turns the biker into a giant turkey monster who goes after drug dealers.

Reviews
SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen
Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Cleveronix A different way of telling a story
BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
rdoyle29 This anti-drug Christian gore flick is about a biker Herschell (named in honour of the man himself ... Herschell Gordon Lewis) who meets this chick Angel and gives her a ride home. Angel is a clean cut Christian, but her sister Ann is into the whole drug scene. Ann eventually lures Herschell into the scene and her bed (in that order), but her jealous pusher friend gets Herschell hooked on some unspecified drug. Ann also gets Herschell a job at an experimental turkey farm. When Hershell eats some of their turkey (an entire roast turkey actually), the drugs in the turkey interact with the drugs in his system and he becomes a turkey-headed monster with an insatiable lust for the blood of drug addicts. This is not a conventionally good movie ... not even close to one ... but it has a strange, nightmare charm to it. It's certainly never dull. Co-director Brad Grinter appears in linking segments, clearly reading his lines off the table in front of him and smoking a cigarette the whole time. He even coughs during his last appearance (no multiple takes done on this flick!).
ang-lee I am a lover of films so ugly to be beautiful, this' one of my favorites ... the film is initially a bit ' boring but in the second part you shoot best with the entry into the field of mythical man turkey ... do not miss a lot of splatter scenes and scenes fun to make you want to cheer for the killer and to enjoy his every move but the ending leaves a little ' bitter taste in the mouth ... forgetting some holes in the script and often directed superficial and careless the film in my opinion and ' enjoyable ... but not I can do anything about my love for this movie and ' visceral ... PROMOTED and then RECOMMENDED !!! PS. out of reach from people who love movies full 'action and big- budget!!!
lamoreauxba I know many people say that "this" or "that" is the worst movie ever made but Bloodfreak reigns supreme without question. I have suffered, slaved and piled through countless bad films, cult classics and flops.After a single viewing years ago, my friends still quote the movie over and over again. The scientists are incredible, the turkey head costume amazing as the story unrolls like old fruit leather.Then we come to the narrator, chain smoking and obviously read from cue cards, he coughs and clears his throat.If you enjoy bad movies, steer clear. If you want to take it to the next level, find a copy of Bloodfreak. You will never be the same again.
MisterWhiplash Yup, that's right, two people directed this... or so-called directed it. This is direction for the celluloid impaired, the likes of which only show up in the worst of Troma movies. It's about.... GOD! Yes, you heard that right, obeying God's laws, and if not you'll take drugs as an addict, get hooked up with evil scientist turkey, and then in the midst of a hallucination turn into a turkey-head and attack the drug pushers that did this deed! You dig? Actually, don't dig, at all. This has moments of spontaneous hilarity in the worst possible way, but it's undermined by any and all attempts by its creators (and future role model for Larry Bishop's Hell Ride, Steve Hawkes as writer/director/ego-maniac/turkey) in making it a Reefer Madness style message movie about drugs and, eventually, God itself. Now some of this would be alright for some laughs (lord knows how damn random it is to keep seeing the director, Grinter, pop up from time to time as a "narrator" who reads from the script as a would-be Bela Lugosi out of Glen or Glenda). And by the time the filmmakers get to the turkey headed creature-man-thing, looking like a cross between a discarded Skesis from the Dark Crystal and a Docor Who villain, one can join in the fun with the repetitive screaming sound effect and awkward edits.But really, it's just so poorly made- this kind of movie will make cinematographers' heads spin perennially over how absolutely God-awful some of the shots are as being pseudo-documentary and pseudo-horror (or, better yet, pseudo-suck)- and acted (everyone, from Hawkes to every single player, including two actors who look like they wandered off from the Allman Brothers band) and plotted (the ending, which provides a whole "It was all a dream" twist may be the most offensive thing of all), that you'll groan and feel completely sickened with yourself for watching what one hoped to be a ridiculous tongue-in-cheek turkey-killer flick.My advice, and I can't believe I'm saying this, go back and re-watch Eli Roth's Thanksgiving trailer. You get more turkey for your buck in a 20th of the time.