tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539389480904624558.post1170679347753661883..comments2023-12-10T13:43:08.526-08:00Comments on Cinema of the Abstract: Blood Freak (1972)Michael Hewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561500562612468808noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539389480904624558.post-42772178104189112702021-10-09T09:33:05.762-07:002021-10-09T09:33:05.762-07:00This review was from four years ago, which is a lo...This review was from four years ago, which is a long time ago for me and with many changes transpiring in my writings. Looking through it, there are things I would immediately re-write and clarify even just glancing through it.<br /><br />A lot of the film's build up in reputation influenced the review, so I was probably disappointed it was not as strange as it was supposedly was. In spite of it having, yes, a legitimately bizarre premise, back then it was probably coming from not finding scenes of endless talking that weird, or that I was expecting far weirder than this, to which I have over the years after still seen far stranger entities within just cult cinema. Premise is not enough sometimes for my own personal weird of bizarre, and Blood Freak was frankly a disappointment back when I covered it then. <br /><br />Nowadays, if I was to revisit it, I would probably find the thing is bizarre regardless and emphasis that fact. Yes, a man who develops into a paper mâché headed turkey monster is legitimately weird. The atheist line in the review would also be jettisoned nowadays, but I would still keep in the comments that 1) this feels a weird contrivance to have the religious moments in the film, and 2) as much of this film's reputation when I learnt of it felt like mocking its contrived form of religious comment for cheap laughs. I would definitely make it a hell of a lot more graceful nowadays, and remove half the stuff for another review, of how people snarkily mock the curious Christian films from this era rather than dissect them, for a more appropriate choice of title. Something like If Footmen Tire, What Will Horses Do? (1971) would have been a much more appropriate choice and definitely an even weirder film than Blood Freak.Michael Hewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16561500562612468808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539389480904624558.post-25643571720060677052021-10-05T20:55:44.392-07:002021-10-05T20:55:44.392-07:00If you think only atheists think this is a weird f...If you think only atheists think this is a weird film you're nuts. This thing makes NO sense. A man with a turkey head, why? Turkey snuff scenes? Looped screaming? Endless scenes of talking? The plot of minor league scientists creating a special solution that turns the guy into said turkey headed monster? Pure silliness.joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05656286524024635022noreply@blogger.com