Blood Suckers

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Audience Member You may say, "This title sounds a lot like Amicus' Dr. Terror's House of Horrors." The studio and their lawyers felt the same way, as this movie was forced to change its title, which means that it played under the other names Return from the Past, The Blood Suckers, Alien Massacre, Gallery of Horror and The Witch's Clock. It was directed by David L. Hewitt, who went from working in a traveling spook show to making movies like The Wizard of Mars, Monsters Crash the Pajama Party, The Mighty Gorga and The Girls from Thunder Strip. He wrote the script, basing it on stories by Russ Jones, who created Creepy. Jones also plays a man killed by a mob and a corpse back from the dead, even creating his own makeup. "The Witches Clock" is the only story with lead actor John Carradine in it — he also narrates — and tells the story of a couple buying a Salem mansion with a haunted clock that has the power to bring the dead back to life. It has a pretty great conclusion, as the entire house and everyone in the story is set on fire, with Carradine's character coming back to start the cycle all over again with a new family. "King of the Vampires" features Scotland Yard against a bloodsucker. There's a pretty forward thinking close here as well with the police unable to wrap their minds around the fact that the killer just might not be a man. "Monster Raid" isn't as good as the first two stories, as it's a simple back from the dead to get revenge on a conniving wife story. "The Spark of Life" lives up to its name, as Lon Chaney Jr. is a scientist who gets two students to help him bring a man back from the dead. However, their experiment isn't a success because that man was a murderer and he may have been better dead. "Count Alucard" pits Dracula against Harker (one of several roles in this movie for Roger Gentry), a vampire hater with a secret. This movie does something amazing: it steals from Roger Corman, who usually steals from himself. There's footage from The Terror, House of Usher, The Raven and The Haunted Palace used in several places in this. "So shocking it will sliver your liver!" That's a great tagline. This isn't a great film. But any movie that has Carradine as a narrator can never be hated. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Good old school horror shorts. Lon Chaney and John Carradine. Worth the watch! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member So bad it is an epic masterpiece of great entertainment--The Cinema Art of David L. Hewitt!! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Jings. Having the great John Carradine narrate the linking sequences can't hide the fact that this film is pants. And pants out of the bottom drawer at that. A portmanteau horror film with the same actors appearing in each segment would be passable if the actors were any good. They're really, really bad. In addition to acting so wooden I thought I could discern traces of Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus (ash dieback), there's cardboard scenery and footage recycled from Corman's Poe adaptations and a script that could have been written during an episode of Loose Women (with the author going out for a fag during ad breaks). No cliche is left unturned. F***ing hell! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Notorious turkey has nostalgic followers who saw this on TV, but I didn't have the pleasure. Laughably inept and best viewed with a group. The short stories are bad to horrid and the ludicrously titled "King Vampire" has become an in-joke at our house. Carradine pads the running time with endless introductions to each story. The sight of a bloated, disspirited Lon Chaney, Jr. is just sad. Only for those who love good bad movies. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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