Horror Theater Video blood cult film review

BLOOD CULT (1985)

DIRECTED BY: CHRISTOPHER LEWIS

CAST: JULIE ANDELMAN, CHARLES ELLIS, JAMES VANCE AND BENNIE LEE MCGOWAN

RUNNING TIME - 89 MINUTES

REVIEW BY: TONY BERNARDINI

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This Tulsa, Oklahoma shot cheapie proclaims itself the first movie shot exclusively for home video on the box.

Charles Ellis plays a small town sheriff who has to investigate the murders of college co-eds by a cleaver wielding killer who may just be tied to a canine worshipping witch cult.

The opening gives us a clear picture of where we're headed: A darkened sorority house at night, a co-ed alone in the house taking a shower, a prowler creeping through the house with a shiny meat cleaver. All standard slasher movie scenes, with nothing new.

But then, we go to another sorority house a couple of nights later; a co-ed wakes in the night to find that the prowler's there in the bedroom, having already decapitated her roommate. He doesn't kill this one; he just beats her unconscious with her roommate's severed head.

There is a great amount of blood here, and the effects are a tad above average for an early direct-to-video film.

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