The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) has a triple-feature Blu-ray collection lined for delivery just in time for a New Year’s celebration that will have genre-fans looking forward to Dec. 28 in anticipation.
The Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare features new 2K film restorations, in association with Something Weird, that are from the only known surviving 35mm prints. Rare and wonderful, indeed.
Certainly best-known among the collection is writer/director Leonard Kirtman’s 1971horror gem, Carnival of Blood, which was shot on location at Coney Island and featured among its cast a new arrival by the name of John Harris, who played Gimpy (it was actually Burt Young in his film debut … he would be nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1976 for Rocky).
A bitchy woman (Linda Kurtz) has her head cut off on a house of horrors carnival ride and soon a sleezy hooker (Eve Packer) is gutted under the fame Coney Island pier. Next comes a rather large blonde bimbo (Gloria Spivak) who meets a gruesome death in a nearby dark alley. The one thing they all have in common, they got teddy bears at the dark booth … could there be a connection?
Next on this triple-bill is director Charles Nizet’s 1974 bizarre horror tale, Help Me … I’m Possessed, which was also known as Nightmare at Blood Castle.
This is one of those late-night guilty pleasures. You have a monster on the loose killing people, it seems to be living in a cave. There is also a “rest home,” the Blackwood Sanitarium, which has a dungeon, where Dr. Blackwood (Bill Greer) carries out experiments. He is assisted by a hunchback named Carl (Pierre Agostino), who is handy with a hatchet. The dungeon also has a guillotine, which handy for chopping people’s heads off. Sexy nurse too (Blackie Hunt).
With so much going on it is hard not to fall in love with this micro-budget gem!!
Rounding out the Blood-A-Rama Triple Frightmare is director Joy N. Houck Jr.’s 1973 horror/mystery, Night of the Strangler.
Filmed in New Orleans, this is an American-made giallo murder mystery with creepy killings and it is near impossible to figure out who is doing the murders and why. A twist reveals all!!
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