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Human zombies rise from their coffins as living corpses!
A mad scientist implants an electronic device into the brain of an injured soldier, which turns him into a psychotic killer.
Blood Of Ghastly Horror
1967 Directed by Al Adamson
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The Man with the Synthetic Brain, Fiend with the Electronic Brain, The Love Maniac, Psycho a Go-Go, El Hombre del Cerebro Sintético, 살인 괴물의 공포, 恐怖之血
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17 Dec 1967
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I'm honestly a little annoyed I already watched most of this movie as it's one of the last pieces of real media I'm going to buy for a while. Not for 😷 related reasons, but just because I don't want to send a bunch of people to the post office on my behalf, even if it is how they make money. Maybe that's wrong of me but it's hard to know what to do in this situation. Oh that nurse triaged my dad (this is actually almost in reference to this movie, as all I could think at the beginning is, those masks are not secure at all and in fact, are not even tied on the bottom)!! and we…
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Another iteration of Adamson’s own Psycho a Go-Go (which I still haven’t watched yet). I enjoyed this one a bit more than The Fiend with the Electronic Brain, I mean there is a awful looking green monster in this one. Some crappy effects. Delightfully over the top performances. Competent direction. A hilarious ending. Good Adamson fun. I dig it.
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Director Al Adamson’s Blood of Ghastly Horror (great title that has no real relationship to the film) features a zombified killer, a bank robbery, a guy brain-damaged in Vietnam turned psycho-killer after botched brain surgery, and revenge for that by the Vietnam vet’s dad. And John Carradine as semi-mad scientist.
It’s pretty difficult to figure out what’s going on, when it flashes backward and forward and suddenly 1972 looks a lot more like the mid-1960’s. But when you learn that Adamson frankensteined this movie out of his own Psycho A-Go-Go (1965) and The Fiend with the Electronic Brain (1966) plus some new materials(?), you’ll forgive yourself for your confusion and really wonder that Adamson thought he could pull this off.…
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In the DVD intro Sam Sherman warns us not to fall asleep during this movie because we might wake up and think we're watching two separate movies.
I hate to break it to you Sam but you don't need to nod off to feel that way about Blood of Ghastly Horror.
He calls it "choppy" and that's the understatement of the century. I have no idea what the timeline is in this movie and I'm still confused as to how certain things happening had anything to do with anything else...
But it's an Al Adamson flick so I kind of figured that going in. Even though it's a shoddily pieced together movie I have a certain respect for these 60's/70's splice jobs.
Plus there's John Carradine...so that was enough for me.
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Blood of Ghastly Horror is rarely ever any of those things, but there are plenty moments of fun in between the lengthy dead space.
It's about a homicidal zombie, a deranged doctor, a heist, a bag of jewels, a daughter and her doll, and a lot more nonsense that's often wild, sometimes boring, but never fits together. There is, however, a fair amount of anti-Vietnam sympathy peppered in.
The acting obviously isn't Oscar-worthy, but a Brolin-like Roy Morton gives a committed performance.
The layer of illusion that turns a cheap set of actors into a magic story on the screen has never felt thinner, but watching a close-knit production crew that's having fun and trying hard despite the result is always infectious. Blood of Ghastly Horror is an easy, goofy Saturday matinee with a lot of heart if nothing else.
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5/32
Hmm, deja vu anybody?
A lot of these scenes are from the other two movies, which is a shame. The added stuff is cool but I can't rate this very high. Maybe in a sleazy theater on 42nd Street I would enjoy it more, but in my house on a Tuesday morning in stunning blurau it doesn't do much for me. I don't hate Al Adamson movies, they're unique time capsules. But unfortunately I'm not enjoying most of them that much. More of an interesting behind the scenes stories. I feel like I'll like the later films more.
Also I'm pretty sure Letterboxd had the wrong photo for Am Adamson. Looks nothing like nothing like him. -
Not as painful as Horror of the Blood Monsters, but close. Just didn't catch my interest, was a slog. Felt like 2 bad movies smashed together for the price of one. I can't say leaning in either way would have made things any better however.
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Al Adamson's Blood of Ghastly Horror is definitely the most unique cut of the footage from Psycho a Go-Go, if nothing else. For a few minutes, the film could even fool you into believing that it was its own thing entirely-- we actually get a couple of scenes of new content before diving back into the all too-familiar diamond heist.
By the end of the first scene we've already gotten our first view of our presumed primary antagonist-- a mass-murdering zombie prowling the desolate California streets. The following scene makes the film's position in the timeline clear (some vague point following the events of The Fiend With the Electronic Brain), and we get our first sequence of reused footage.
The…
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Al Adamson turns his older jewel heist movie Psycho A-Go-Go into a monster movie of sorts. It's marginally less enjoyable than the source material simply because the new and old footage don't gel too well together, but Roy Morton has some additional scenes and, boy, he's a great performer. Adamson's regulars (John Carradine, wife Regina Carrol, and Kent Taylor) are also on hand to shake things up. Bad, not bad.
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After two previous attempts, Al Adamson just could not make any money on his first feature film. But since this is the late 60s and movies just sold to drive ins and there was no internet promoting and remembering things it was time for another go.
Gotta give it to the guy. He didn’t stop until he made money on his film. No artistic integrity to be seen for miles. Just pure exploitation trickery and business.
This time around the film’s original plot (the jewel heist gone wrong) still contains the extra footage from Fiend with an Electric Brain starring John Carradine but is no framed as flashbacks to be exposition for the new story.
It’s more of a mess…
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Al Adamson box set #10
The worst one yet, though in many ways the most "Al Adamson" that I've watched in the set thus far. Contains new 1971 footage with Kent Taylor, Regina Carrol, a bleary-eyed and visibly inconvenienced Tommy Kirk, and a green-skinned zombie, with mad doctor Taylor and cop Kirk flashing back to incidents from Adamson's 1965 PSYCHO A GO GO and its first revamp, 1967's THE FIEND WITH THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN, and then there's a flashback-within-the-flashback from FIEND addition John Carradine. Most of the movie is the seven-year-old PSYCHO A GO GO, and coupled with a hilarious climax, visible microphones sticking out in the 1971 footage, and 1971 crew members audibly chattering and coughing off-camera, BLOOD OF GHASTLY HORROR is astonishingly bad, but there's no denying it's perversely entertaining.