Bloodstream (1985)

Bloodstream (1985)
Director: Michael J. Murphy
Cast: Patrick Olliver, Jacqueline Logan, Catherine Rowlands, Mark Wells
A maker of really bad movies is showing his product. He´s rejected. He gets copies of some movies by Britain´s so-called King of Horror. There are a lot of different horror movies. One of them is a cheap zombie movie. Another features a mummy. There´s a bad vampire and awful werewolf film. In the real world, a skull masked killer is going around and murdering people. It seems to be connected to the making of a horror movie. Who could the killer be?
Slimeball producer William King rips off crap horror director Alistar Bailey, so Bailey alongside Kings secretary decide to get revenge on him and his small production team. For most the films duration the down on his luck director sits in his bedsit and spends his time sulking and and watching video nasties that poorly parody films like Hammer's Dracula, The Exorcist and Mad Max. The director then goes on a murder spree while filming the deaths for his latest stinker.

The films director Michael J. Murphy as stated he made the film as an attack on film distributers he'd had problems with, which kind of backfired because Bloodstream failed to secure a distribution deal so nobody got to see it. Its real zero budget fair from the UK, the acting is dire grade z stuff yet something about the feel and attitude kept me some what entertained and curious for its duration. Its not really recommended but if you do stumble over it and have an hour to kill theres worse junk out there, horror fans will no doubt have fun guessing some of the obvious references, I'm still puzzled why the secretary was obsessed with James Stewart but doubt I'll lose sleep over it or even remember Bloodstream in days or weeks to come.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 4 out of 10]
[Deathcount 12]
[Bewbcount 2]
[Gorequota 6/10]

Themes Included: Zombies ● English Pub ● Hunchback ● Wolfman
Witch Burning ● Dog Burning ● Cannibals ● Mummy ● Lesbian Vampire