Blood Suckers (1971)
2/10
A Good Piece of Advice
9 March 2002
Warning: Spoilers
Two other reviewers have already made clear that this film is bad. I am not going to discourage that line of thought in any way. It is a muddled, worthless, boring film about some British scholar going off to Greece, because he is impotent and then turning into some type of vampire. The link is that vampirism is some kind of sexual deviation that relieves impotentcy. Hmmmm. The plot makes little sense. The editing, as mentioned previously, is a hatchet job. It looks like the presbiopic six(or seven?)got hold of it and put it together. Patrick Macnee supposedly is the star. He dies half-way through the film. The rest of the cast aimlessly wander through the film with little motivation and even less ability. Peter Cushing has so small a role as to have little bearing on the film's plot or feel. He is adequate but really has nothing to do with his role. The one lone bright performing spotlight comes from Edward Woodward in a five minute cameo as a scholar of mankind that knows something about vampirism. Woodward injects the only humour and wit the film has. More than half of the film takes place in Greece and the settings are not splendid or breathtaking but rather very tiring and weedy. Watching Macnee chase a beautiful Grecian woman(played with beauty if nothing else by Imogen Hassall)while astride a jack-ass was more Grecian scenery than I personally needed. Really and truly...an awful film!
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