Malatesta's Carnival of Blood is a long lost drive in flick starring Herve'de (De Plane De Plane) Villechaize that showed up over the last year on DVD. I wish this would have stayed lost lets take a look at this train wreck. The movie in a nutshell is about a man who is running a carnival that below it harbors zombie-like cannibal people that eat some of the patrons who visit.
Let me start off by saying that when the movie first started I thought this would be something along the lines of an H.G.Lewis or one of the many other cool drive-in classics that are out there. However once I reached the end I realized I had just seen a "movie" that was so incoherent that I was amazed that someone actually wanted to dare release this in the first place let alone re-release it to DVD. Where to begin lets start with the good...... It had Tattoo in it from Fantasy Island.....it had cannibals.....someone gets decapitated.....oh who am I kidding this movie BLOWS!!! For me to say that is a lot as I always try to find something good in everything I watch. Let me just skip to the bad here and it is a lot. Do you have an hour of course not so Ill do a brief list of the issues: 1) Editing was GARBAGE. 2) The story (though sounding quite simple) was confusing (thanks to the poor editing and a director that does not know what he is doing). 3)We do not know where the cannibal people come from until the last 3/4 of the movie. 4) Unless I was heavily drugged (or on drugs) most of the sequences were mindnummingly trippy (in a bad way). Lastly 5) The editing was Garbage..oh I already said that.
In conclusion if your idea of a good movie is a scotch taped story held together by horrible editing that would make a 3 year old Mongoloid proud and weird sequences that you cannot tell if the person in the movie is dreaming or if it is really going on (again this goes back to editing) Then have at it. I was hoping this would be a cool drive-in movie but it turned out to be THE WORST EDITED FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN (and that is saying a lot cause I have seen A lot). If you could look past all the confusion that this story conveys you are still left with a massive gleaming mess.
My Score: 2/10 Very Bad Movie, and not in the good sense either.....I give 2 points for Tattoo only and we don't even get him in the film until the midway point....Please avoid this carnival at all cost, you'll be a better person if you do.
That is it for now I hope to have some more reviews up over the next week until then remember: Midgets are cool but midgets used in bad films just makes the film fall that much "shorter".
Let me start off by saying that when the movie first started I thought this would be something along the lines of an H.G.Lewis or one of the many other cool drive-in classics that are out there. However once I reached the end I realized I had just seen a "movie" that was so incoherent that I was amazed that someone actually wanted to dare release this in the first place let alone re-release it to DVD. Where to begin lets start with the good...... It had Tattoo in it from Fantasy Island.....it had cannibals.....someone gets decapitated.....oh who am I kidding this movie BLOWS!!! For me to say that is a lot as I always try to find something good in everything I watch. Let me just skip to the bad here and it is a lot. Do you have an hour of course not so Ill do a brief list of the issues: 1) Editing was GARBAGE. 2) The story (though sounding quite simple) was confusing (thanks to the poor editing and a director that does not know what he is doing). 3)We do not know where the cannibal people come from until the last 3/4 of the movie. 4) Unless I was heavily drugged (or on drugs) most of the sequences were mindnummingly trippy (in a bad way). Lastly 5) The editing was Garbage..oh I already said that.
In conclusion if your idea of a good movie is a scotch taped story held together by horrible editing that would make a 3 year old Mongoloid proud and weird sequences that you cannot tell if the person in the movie is dreaming or if it is really going on (again this goes back to editing) Then have at it. I was hoping this would be a cool drive-in movie but it turned out to be THE WORST EDITED FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN (and that is saying a lot cause I have seen A lot). If you could look past all the confusion that this story conveys you are still left with a massive gleaming mess.
My Score: 2/10 Very Bad Movie, and not in the good sense either.....I give 2 points for Tattoo only and we don't even get him in the film until the midway point....Please avoid this carnival at all cost, you'll be a better person if you do.
That is it for now I hope to have some more reviews up over the next week until then remember: Midgets are cool but midgets used in bad films just makes the film fall that much "shorter".