Blood Bath
Directed by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman
Written by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman
1966/US
American International Pictures
First viewing/YouTube
[box] Blood is thicker than mud. – Sylvester Stone “Family Affair”[/box]
This is the weakest of the several “crazed artist needs to kill to create” sub-genre of horror film I have seen.
Successful artist Antonio Sordi paints in the same old bell tower as his Renaissance ancestor Erno did. In a twist on the sub-genre, Antonio is also a vampire. He feeds on his victims, uses them as models for his grotesque and grizzly paintings, and then tosses them into a vat (of acid? of blood?). This kind of stuff happens over and over again until the ridiculous deus ex machina ending.
If you are interested in the sub-genre, may I suggest Roger Corman’s Bucket of Blood or Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Color Me Blood Red? Those are also very bad movies but at least have a black humor that makes them somewhat entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_RHWR2DyzE
