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Got this in a double feature movie pack the other being "Mausoleum". Lenny Montana, the hit-man who winds up sleeping with the fishes in "The Godfather," served as a co-producer, co-wrote the script and pops up in a small supporting role as an amiable tugboat skipper. A radically cast against type Avalon in particular has a field day with his juicy homicidal fruitcake part: Frankie plants a hatchet in a guy's face, strangles a hot young lady after making love to her, and, best of all, vigorously engages in a strenuous mano-a-mano no-holds-barred physical confrontation with veteran tough guy actor Richard Jaeckel (who's excellent as usual as Marion's stern, cranky, overbearing dad).
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Levi's able direction, Steve Posey's polished cinematography, some witty dialogue ("I've got a hangover that would make King Kong climb a wall"), a decent amount of gore, and the uniformly fine acting from an interesting cast are all up to par. Monty Turner's gratingly redundant droning synthesizer score tends to be more annoying than effective, but fortunately Alan J. Pauls escapes from the asylum, steals a van, and drives cross country so he can meet Marion in person, bumping off a few folks along the way. Frankie would appreciate it.ĥ0's teen idol Frankie Avalon gives a surprisingly solid, credible and even fairly creepy performance as Paul, a crazed, murderous flute-playing mental patient who develops a psychic link with sweet gimpy teenage girl Marion (appealingly played by the adorable Donna Wilkes of "Jaws 2" and "Angel" fame) after his blood is used for an operation she undergoes. So, mediocrity aside, Bloodsong is worth at least one view by all 80s slasher aficionados. If I had to make a comparison, I'd say this film is a mix between John Carpenter's Halloween (only much cheaper and not on Halloween) and William Lustig's Maniac (only toned down and a lot less bloody). That sub-story is worthy of the trashiest Lifetime movie of the week.
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Another plus is that the plot is embellished by the fact that poor disabled Marion has a father who is an abusive alcoholic who makes her out to be a slut and gives her hell every chance he gets. Avalon surprisingly creates a creepy and menacing character. The killings are semi-graphic but, otherwise, fully slasher film certified. Although far from a classic, Bloodsong is pretty entertaining and not a complete waste of time. Needless to say, it is inevitable that their paths will cross and it won't be nice. In other words, Paul's blood seems to have connected his mind to hers, making Marion an unwilling mental witness to his killing spree in which the murders always start off with him hauntingly playing a flute (hence, the title Bloodsong). The girl, Marion (played by Donna Wilkes), crippled but on her way to recovery at home, starts to have horrible visions of death both in dreams and awake. Frankie stars as Paul Foley, an escaped and homicidal mental patient, who prior to his liberation, supplied blood to a critically injured teenage girl brought to his hospital after a car wreck. The acting and storyline are pretty good, there's plenty of cheap 80s style and substance, and it's the only film in which you can see former teen heart throb Frankie Avalon play a hatchet wielding psycho.
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On top of all this mediocrity, there are some assets to Bloodsong.
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It's sleazy, but by no means a sleaze flick. Because, in quality this movie is quite mediocre and, actually, not at all that bad as some would make it out to be. I say trash in a good way defining the genre rather than the quality. Dream Slayer) is a rare and almost totally forgotten horror trash flick made during the 1980s' boom of slasher films.