Bloodbath (1999)

Directors:

Dan Speaker
Kim Turney

Writers:

Dana Fredsti (writer)
Dan Speaker (story)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

B-movie actresses are turning up dead, or simply vanishing, so two L.A. detectives are assigned to investigate...

Cast

Susannah Devereux	...	Countess Bathory / Elizabeth Bartholomew
Dan Speaker	...	Maximillius Tscedronesciu / Max Zedron
Jennifer Patterson	...	Candi Cohen
Jan Bryant	...	Klara Bartok
Charles Currier	...	Guy Ferencz
Dana Fredsti	...	Maggie Donovan (as Dana Thomas)
Anthony Martini	...	Tony Marten
Joey Pal	...	Chief McBain
Kathryn Cleasby	...	Tina
Debby Dodds	...	Miss Cluephone / Police Interviewee
Flame	...	Snake Dancer / Police Interviewee
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dave Amplifier	...	Gargoyle
Phil Aslaksen	...	Gargoyle
Chris Barbeau	...	The Czygany (Klara's henchman)
Bernard Donohue	...	The Czygany (Klara's henchman)
Daniel Forcey	...	The Czygany (Klara's henchman) (as Dan Forcey)
Joe Garcia	...	Police Interviewee
Darrin Jaques	...	The Czygany (Klara's henchman)
Tony Milazzo	...	Police Interviewee
Eric Oram	...	Rudolph, the film star
Karen Quick	...	Partier
Jeri Reeder	...	Police Interviewee
Dana J. Ryan	...	Isabella, Mistress of the Sword / Police Interviewee (as Dana Ryan)
John Searles	...	The Czygany (Klara's henchman)
David S. Sterling	...	Gargoyle (as Dave Sterling)
Eric Streit	...	Murphy
Jeffery Yarborough	...	Partier

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

cheezy community center weekend trip

I think this videotaped movie was made in a community center where they have little kids' acting classes and clown classes and stuff. What a boring set! I was half expecting there to be ballet class in the next room!

Poorly edited and acted, but full of manly renaissance festival mullets and beer gutted heavy handed sword fights! The only semi-decent acting was by the detective lady, and even then, it wasn't very impressive.

So the plot is something like this - a theater group called Countess Productions has been taking in actresses off the streets of Hollywood and using them in their S&M "art" films. Then, they turn the ladies into vampires and have crazy orgy parties and other vampire stuff like that. This werewolf guy (who just says he's a werewolf but never actually turns into one. However, he gets it on with a girl in one scene and we see he is hairy enough as it is and probably wouldn't need a costume anyway!) and some police detectives are investigating unsolved murders and going to these parties and talking to the film directors about what's going on. They drink blood, have sex, sword fight and argue and that's about it. It's kind of amusing to me. I think the cast is full of Dungeons & Dragon guys and strippers.

There is one major goof that I saw, and I'm not good at picking these out, so it was REALLY obvious. At the beginning, the girl going for the audition is aimlessly walking around calling, "hello? anyone here?" over and over. She checks rooms and doors in the hallway and says, "no one's here. where is everybody?" Well, she flings open a door and you can see a mirror in the room that fully shows about 4 guys standing there talking and pointing at stuff. She shuts the door and says, "nobody's here!" It's a hugely obvious mistake and I watched it a few times because I couldn't believe they'd leave it in.

Anyway, I found this movie amusing and you might too.