{"id":12453,"date":"2010-09-12T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2020-12-22T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T03:56:24","slug":"incredible-torture-show-the-blood-sucking-freaks-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12453","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Torture Show, The \/ Blood Sucking Freaks (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Look on in awe at a man who has turned all his fantasies into realities.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-59152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster-87x128.png 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster-184x270.png 184w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Poster.png 595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen the sado-masochistic director (Seamus O&#8217;Brien) of a <em>theater macabre<\/em> show kidnaps a prima ballerina (Viju Krem), her boyfriend (Niles McMaster) hires a detective (Dan Fauci) to investigate.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Kidnapping<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s-Put-On-a-Show<\/li>\n<li>Magicians<\/li>\n<li>S&#038;M<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary accurately describes this egregious inclusion in his book as a &#8220;reprehensible film&#8221;, one which, sadly, has a &#8220;strong underground reputation based on its &#8230; sickening violence and torture scenes&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-1024x662.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-59156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-1024x662.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-128x83.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-768x496.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-1536x993.png 1536w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2-418x270.png 418w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Incredible-Torture-Show-Still2.png 1549w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s true that &#8220;some of the scenes are too ridiculous to be taken seriously&#8221; (the voluminous &#8220;blood&#8221; and amputated body parts throughout are very clearly <em>fake<\/em>), it&#8217;s equally true that &#8220;others&#8221; &#8212; <em>many<\/em> others &#8212; &#8220;are nauseatingly tasteless&#8221;. To describe them here would simply perpetuate their inexcusable titillation value, so I&#8217;ll leave it to you to read other reviews (see links below) for a blow-by-blow recap of the many ways in which women &#8212; and a couple of men, for good measure &#8212; are tortured and maimed throughout this film. Peary notes that part of the film&#8217;s notoriety comes from the fact that it was the &#8220;object of protests by women&#8217;s groups&#8221;, and argues that &#8220;if any film deserves to be banned, this [one] deserves strong consideration&#8221;; I must agree. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nothing. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nAbsolutely not; be duly forewarned. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077247\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/classic-horror.com\/reviews\/blood_sucking_freaks_1976\">Classic Horror Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/horror\/blood-sucking-freaks-1976-the-incredible-torture-show.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badmovies.org\/movies\/bloodsucking\/\">Bad Movies Review (SPOILERS ALERT)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Look on in awe at a man who has turned all his fantasies into realities.&#8221; Synopsis: When the sado-masochistic director (Seamus O&#8217;Brien) of a theater macabre show kidnaps a prima ballerina (Viju Krem), her boyfriend (Niles McMaster) hires a detective (Dan Fauci) to investigate. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Black Comedy Kidnapping Let&#8217;s-Put-On-a-Show Magicians S&#038;M Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Peary accurately describes this egregious inclusion in his book as a &#8220;reprehensible film&#8221;, one which, sadly, has a &#8220;strong underground reputation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=12453\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12453"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59157,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12453\/revisions\/59157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}