Placer sangriento (1967) User Reviews

Reasonably enjoyable.

[Hey_Sweden · 5/10 · 7 June 2020]

The only horror director of any fame to come from Argentina, Emilio Vieyra ("The Curious Dr. Humpp"), made the first of his low budget genre films with this minor shocker. Mauricio De Ferraris stars as a police inspector named Ernesto Lauria, who must solve the case of a masked maniac who injects women with heroin, and also uses organ music to turn them into zombie slaves.

Don't look for a particularly coherent story with this one, but you can expect a fair amount of black & white atmosphere. You can also enjoy a decent serving of sleaze, a steady assortment of sexy young women, and the creepiness of the villain. The mask he wears may be the most noteworthy thing about him. The performances are not great but they are adequate. The mystery to be solved is not all that difficult to deduce. The music is the work of a man named Victor Buchino, who also composed the song performed by one of our suspects in a nightclub. Pacing is efficient enough, resulting in a movie that wraps up in just over 70 minutes.

"Feast of Flesh" a.k.a. "The Deadly Organ" (as it is known here in North America) is no great shakes, but lovers of foreign B horror may appreciate its sense of weirdness and its ambience.

Five out of 10.

The black and white photography is crisp and attractive

[christopher-underwood · 3/10 · 22 April 2014]

Yes, well... Any reason why I might recommend anyone seeing this? The black and white photography is crisp and attractive, as are most of the girls and the Les Baxter like music has some appeal. My disc has the ambiguous title of The Deadly Organ on it but it is almost universally known as, Feast of Flesh and with this title accompanies, Night of the Bloody Apes on the Something Weird label. To be honest The Deadly Organ is more appropriate but this is a tale with a monster, some girls and a lot of police guys doing a lot of chatting and no story at all. The night club scenes are OK because we get some silly dancing and the passable music but I must mention here that we also get, apropos nothing whatsoever, a striptease and it is the worst I have ever seen.

Emilio Vierya strikes again--for the first time!

[lazarillo · 1 March 2005]

Emilio Vierya strikes again! Or to be more accurate, Emilio Vierya strikes for the first time as this was the first of a series of bizarre horror films by Argentina's most famous (and only famous) horror director. And though Vierya may strike first-time viewers as an Argentinean Ed Wood, there is definitely method to his madness--the cheesy delirium evoked by his films is entirely intentional. A man in a ridiculous monster mask lures female Argentinean swingers partying on the beach with his strange organ music(thus the suggestive alternative title "The Deadly Organ"). He then injects them with heroin to make them his slaves. Why? You wouldn't believe me if I told you, but it really isn't important.

All the ingredients of a Vierya film are there--the free-spirited Latino hippies, the goofy music, the gratuitous nudity, the gratuitous dancing. His two regular actresses--Gloria Pratt and Susana Beltran--also appear. Beltran (who looks a lot like her Italian exploitation contemporary, Rosalba Neri)has the lead in this movie though, with Pratt relegated to a more perfunctory part. Thankfully, this one isn't padded with American-shot sex inserts like "The Curious Dr. Humpp", but unlike "Sangre de Virgenes" it is dubbed into English which is only a problem because instead of giving Beltran a sexy Latino accent, they give her this grating Texas one(!). And "Feast of Flesh", the title this has currently been saddled with by the distributors at Something Weird is very inaccurate as there is no flesh here in the gore sense and not much in the sex sense. The Spanish title "Placer Sangriento" (literally "Bloody Pleasures") isn't any more accurate. Both are bound to attract your indiscriminating gore fans rather than your more refined and erudite fans of bizarro Argentinean horror/sexploitation movies who will appreciate a film like this. I guess this movie really defies ANY title, but I like "The Deadly Organ" the best.

No feast here!

[lastliberal · 2/10 · 4 October 2008]

Maybe I watched the wrong movie.

I heard this described as Argentine giallo. So, where's the blood. Not a drop anywhere.

I almost thought I was watching Gidget goes Hawaiian as the film was mostly a bunch of young beach goers and a man running around in a goofy mask stabbing people with a needle.

Supposedly, this goof was drugging young girls to satisfy his lustful passions before killing them. I say supposedly, because you never get to see any of this.

Feast of Flesh? Maybe if you are anorexic it is a feast. It should be more aptly named Nibble of Flesh, as that is all you got - not a mouthful, just a short taste. That was at the beginning of the movie and the rest was just PG. Who cares why this jerk killed the girls. Stabbing with a syringe is not giallo and it certainly wasn't horror.

Deliriously sleazy

[Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki · 3/10 · 18 June 2013]

Organ player wearing grotesque looking mask stalks young women, injects them with heroin, and then hypnotizes them with his organ playing and turns them into his love slaves, before stabbing them with a hypodermic needle the size of a turkey baster and leaving them on a nearby beach.

Mm hmmm.

Really silly looking font for the title; beatniks playing bongos and dancing, then stripping; and buxom babes on the beach provide a few unintentional laughs. Occasionally (deliriously) atmospheric visuals, like killer shown reflected in shattered mirror, and its high contrast black-and-white photography and stark lighting give the flick a certain creepiness, but overall, this is the type of sleazy little flick which can only be watched to wonder what the hell was being taken/ drunk during filming (which couldn't have lasted more than a day or two)

Feast of Garbage

[markapickles · 1/10 · 19 January 2021]

Sorry I'm not saying anything positive about this! I got as far as 28 minutes and turned the DVD off! Lot's of nudity......that we couldn't see! Pointless garbage! Why film nudity if we're never going to see it?

Atmospheric

[jameselliot-1 · 6/10 · 11 October 2009]

I can't blast Placer Sangriento like everyone else on this board. I liked it. It reminded me of early Franco as did Vieyera's later effort, Dr. Humpp. The black & white photography is very atmospheric and moody, the girls are very sexy and the storyline is sleazy enough. Like a lot of horror films of that time, the police procedural footage is dull. I've often wondered if these scenes were meant to be for restroom breaks when they played theatrically. The ominous, memorable central music theme reminded me of the sensational main theme by Allesandro Allesdandrini in a film made years later, The Devil's Nightmare. Placer Sangriento is currently playing in a 20 minute version on Comcast on Demand in the Something Weird section (they sell the full version on DVD).

Be there or be square.

[BA_Harrison · 7/10 · 12 October 2011]

The swinging 60s saw protective parents world-wide concerned that exposure to way-out music might turn their kids into sex-crazed, drug addicts. In Emilio Vieyra's Feast of Flesh AKA The Deadly Organ, that's precisely what happens: young women are subjected to some cool organ grooves and become the zombie-like sex slaves of a masked maniac who hooks them on heroin; once in the grip of the 'monster', the women become his sexual playthings, but their inevitable fate is death, their 'master' stabbing them in the chest with his over-sized hypodermic needle.

Although this film could be viewed as a cautionary tale for potentially wayward teens or as the ultimate nightmare scenario for concerned parents, I doubt very much if this was the makers' intention—it's far too lurid a piece of trash to be given credit for containing any kind of moral subtext or for deliberately mining the fears of the older generation. No... what we have here, I believe, is exploitation, pure and simple—a delightfully dated piece of nonsense featuring some mild gore, beautiful people soaking up rays on the beach, groovy dance scenes in a smoky jazz club, and plenty of bare boobage, with nearly every hot chick getting her threads off during the course of the film.

Casual horror fans might find Feast of Flesh strictly Dullsville (Hell, even fans of this type of cheap South American schlock don't seem to have much positive to say about it), but I had a blast with the hilarious 60s slang ('this place is a drag... I'm splitting. Ciao!'), all of the tasty skirt (especially one particularly big-breasted sunbather and the gorgeous Gloria Prat as Beba), the terrible dubbing, and the wonderfully daft scene in which the police use a girl as bait for the killer, but fail to step in until after she has been fatally stabbed.

Another mind-bomb from the director of "The Curious Dr. Humpp"

[Jens-28 · 30 September 1999]

Okay, "Deadly Organ" isn't as wacky as "Humpp" but there are plenty thrills for lovers of weird and obscure films. A spooky guy with a monster mask wrecks havoc on the beaches of Argentina by injecting heroin (!) into helpless young girls. He then plays an organ (hence the title, I thought it was another kind of organ..ha ha) and young zombielike girls come to him. In the film's most outrageous scene two cops interview a heroine victim of who the psycho is BY USING LSD AS A TRUTH SERUM!!?! According to the Mondo Macabro book "Deadly Organ" was made in 1965! The audiences of Argentina must've been pretty shocked by this druginduced gem. Only for the boldest trashfilm fanatics - mainstream Lynch/cultfilm wannabes should stay clear of this twisted little marvel.

I couldn't keep this putrid "Feast" down

[movieman_kev · 13 August 2004]

A man in a mask injects herion into a gaggle of girls in between bouts of organ playing in this boring late 60's film. It was on the same disk as the superior "Night Of The Bloody Apes", so I felt what the hell, ya know? And every film I watch I feel the need to review. Even the VERY horrid ones. This is futher proof that Emilio Vieyra should have never gotten into making movies. Everything I saw of his is putrid, he's like the Argentian version of Indy-feces director Micheal Legge. YES that bad.

Something Weird Dvd extras: Outakes; Combo trailer; TV spots; comic art gallery; Short subjects: 'Gorilla and the Maiden', 'world's championship women's wrestling contest', 'Artist's Paradise', and 'White Gorilla'; Trailers for "the Deadly Organ", "Face of the Screaming Werewolf", "the Flesh Eaters", "Fleash feast", "Invasion of the Flesh Hunters", "Shiver Shudder Show", and "Tender Flesh". It's on a double bill with "Night of the Bloody Apes"

Easter Egg: Trailer for "the Curious Dr Humpp"

My Grade: F

Decent Thriller

[Michael_Elliott · 29 February 2008]

Feast of Flesh (1967)

** (out of 4)

Argentina horror film about a masked killer who stalks women so that he can inject them with heroin and make them his slaves. Originally rated X when it was released to American drive-ins, this thing now is rather tame in its violence, subject matter and nudity but it's a shame the direction is so incredibly poor because we might have had a pretty good film otherwise. The look of the masked killer is the film's strong point but the rest of the film, while interesting, is rather dull due to the direction.