The Incredible Torture Show (1976)

User Rating:

3.9/10   

Director:

Joel M. Reed

Writer:

Joel M. Reed (written by)

Genre:

Horror

Tagline:

Join The Fun!... Human Dart Boards... "Home Style Brain Surgery"... Dental Hijinks!

Plot:

Sardu runs the theatre of the macabre. Sardu is into S&M. Sardu likes to kill people in public and make them think it's fake.

Plot Keywords:

S&M | Macabre | Sick | Stage | Torture

Cast

Seamus O'Brien	...	Master Sardu
Viju Krem	...	Natasha D'Natalie
Niles McMaster	...	Tom Maverick
Dan Fauci	...	Sergeant John Tucci
Alan Dellay	...	Creasy Silo
Ernie Pysher	...	The Doctor
Luis De Jesus	...	Ralphus
Helen Thompson	...	Master's Assistant
Saiyanidi	...	Master's Assistant
Alphonso DeNoble	...	White Slave Dealer (as Alphonso)
Carol Mara
Linda Small
Illa Howe
Lynette Sheldon
Janis Beaver

Also Known As:

Blood Sucking Freaks (USA) (reissue title)
Bloodsucking Freaks (USA) (promotional title)
Heritage of Caligula
Sardu (USA) (informal alternative title)
Sardu, Master of the Screaming Virgins (USA) (original script title)
The Heritage of Caligula: An Orgy of Sick Minds (USA) (video title)
The House of the Screaming Virgins

Runtime:

91 min | Australia:89 min (uncut version) | France:88 min | USA:88 min (director's cut)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:(Banned) (Nova Scotia/Ontario) | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Manitoba) (re-rating) | Finland:K-18 | Germany:(Banned) | New Zealand:R18 | USA:Open (rating surrendered) (1984) | USA:R (re-rating) (1981) | USA:X (original rating) | Australia:R

Trivia:

This film was effectively "banned" (not rated by MPAA at all) in the U.S. following protest by Women Against Pornography.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sardu is done eating off the girls back, the plate of food is still full when he begins smoking. When he knocks the girl there is nothing on the plate.

Quotes:

Ralphus: Is she dead, master?
Master Sardu: Not quite.
Ralphus: If she died, no new show.
Master Sardu: I know, idiot.

Movie Connections:

Edited into Dying: Last Seconds of Life, Part II (1988) (V)

In bad taste and proud of it!

I bless the day that I purchased my DVD player and PC, for they have both allowed me to sample rare delights such as this. The BBFC have never taken too kindly to this kind of movie, thus leaving the british fans of exploitation and horror movies with little to write home about...until now!

For those of you wishing to open your minds, scour the web and grab yourself a sense of humour (albeit twisted), Bloodsucking Freaks is probably a good starting point.

Directed by Joel M. Reed and starring Seamus O'brien, The movie is set predominantly in a New York 'theatre of the macabre' Where the evil, yet witty, Sardu (O'brien) delights in torturing young (and often naked) women on stage with various medieval devices, for an audience that believe the proceedings to be nothing more than illusions. Off course, they are not!

The wafer thin storyline revolves around Sardu trying to pass off his 'work' as art, but a disagreable art critic who attends one of Sardu's shows says he 'has seen better' and refuses to review his Grand Guignal...so Sardu plots revenge!

What follows, is about 80 minutes of bad taste, poor acting, terrible special effects, nudity, violence and gore, all polished off in a nice campy 1970's fashion. Basically, everything I enjoy in a movie that cannot possibly be taken seriously!

Bloodsucking Freaks is pure trash...and I mean that in the nicest possible way! Watch for Sardu's killer line..."her mouth would make an interesting urinal"