Bloodeaters (1980)

User Rating:

3.7/10   

Director:

Charles McCrann

Writer:

Charles McCrann (writer)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

After drug crops are sprayed with a chemical by a passing airplane, the growers of the crop are poisoned...

Plot Keywords:

Chemical | Mental Retardation | Video Nasty | Anthropophagus | Cannibal

Cast

Charles McCrann	...	Tom Cole (as Charles Austin)
Beverly Shapiro	...	Polly Cole
Dennis Helfend	...	Hermit
Kevin Hanlon	...	Jimmy
Judith M. Brown	...	Amy (as Judy Brown)
Pat Kellis	...	Mother
Roger Miles	...	Father
Phillip Garfinkel	...	Jay
Bob Larson	...	Pilot
Hariet Miller	...	Pilot's Wife
Paul Haskin	...	Briggs
John Amplas	...	Phillips
Claude Scales	...	Farmer
Dennis Graber	...	Hippie Leader
Debra O'Leary	...	Leader's Girl
Bob Hanson	...	Vinnie
Gerald Cullen	...	Pete
Ronald Kienhuis	...	Joey
Kim Roff	...	Female Ghoul
Craig Harris	...	Male Ghoul
James Hart	...	Federal Agent #1
John Kuhl	...	Federal Agent #2
Alyssa Allyn	...	Lisa
William Shetterly	...	Sloan
Debbie Link	...	Bathing Girl
James McGonigal	...	Gas Station Attendant

Directed by
Charles McCrann

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles McCrann		writer

Produced by
J. William Lee	....	associate producer
Charles McCrann	....	producer

Original Music by
Ted Shapiro

Cinematography by
David Sperling

Film Editing by
Charles McCrann
David Sperling

Makeup Department
Gerald Cullen	....	makeup artist
Craig Harris	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Craig Harris	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jenny Lee	....	assistant director

Art Department
Craig Harris	....	set designer

Sound Department
Jack Higgins	....	sound re-recording mixer
James McDonigal Jr.	....	sound

Special Effects by
Craig Harris	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
James Hart	....	additional photographer

Editorial Department
Neil DiBernardo	....	assistant editor
J. William Lee	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Bob Ullmann	....	composer: incidental music

Other crew
Neil DiBernardo	....	production assistant
Ronald Kienhuis	....	production assistant
John Kuhl	....	production assistant
Octavio Molina	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• CM Productions

Distributors

• Parker National Distributing (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
• Monterey Video (USA) (VHS)
• Raedon (video)
• Raedon Video (USA) (VHS)
• Video for Pleasure (VFP) (1984) (Belgium) (video)

Also Known As:

Forest of Fear (UK) (video title (working title)) (USA) (working title)
Blood Butchers
Toxic Zombies

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 | Australia:R | UK:(Banned) | USA:R | West Germany:(Banned) | Germany:BPjM Restricted

Company:

CM Productions

Movie Connections:

Featured in Mad Ron's Prevues from Hell (1987) (V)

Call it Bloodeaters, call it Toxic Zombies, call it...kinda dull

Toxic Zombies is a rather cheesy film made in a rural area of Pennsylvania, and this is a good place to grow pot? Well, maybe, I don't think of that area of the country as a hotbed of that sort of activity. At any rate, the Feds zone in on a bunch of harvesters ready to pick their crop and get out of town fast, especially after they killed a couple other Feds. But, a lunatic government agent (are there any other kind?) decides to spray the area with an unproven toxin to kill the pot & oh, and if it makes the pot growers sick, who will care? Of course, after the initial dusting, the harvesters are puking blood & not feeling too well, but not long afterward they begin to change into...wait for it....zombies.

Now, these are not your usual George Romero zombies, they don't pounce on a victim and rip out entrails and gnaw lustily on shin-bones, they just take a bite, and then let blood run out of their mouths as they wander off to do something else. Maybe they're just stoned. Anyway, I did kind of like the close-up shot of one victim with red lines painted on their body and perhaps plastic (or dead) flies lined up, with the buzzing sound dubbed in, now THAT was class.

This isn't God-awful terrible, but it's just not a very exciting film. The idea isn't bad, the locations aren't bad, but the actors are wooden & the whole execution of the thing leaves plenty to be desired. I do like cheesy movies but they need more life in them than THIS. 4 out of 10.