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1972 (USA)
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A Dracula On Drugs! more
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A biker comes upon a girl with a flat tire and offers her a ride home. He winds up at a drug party with the girl's sister...
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Turkey
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Turkey Farm
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Severed Foot
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Blood-drinking turkey monster mania!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Steve Hawkes | ... | Herschell | |
| Dana Cullivan | ... | Ann | |
| Heather Hughes | ... | Angel | |
| Bob Currier | |||
| Anne Shearin | |||
| Linda Past | |||
| Debbie Smith | |||
| Sandy Kneelen | |||
| Domink Grutta | |||
| Randy Grinter | |||
| Larry Wright | |||
| Dolores Currier | |||
| Jane Tarber | |||
| Lee Morris | |||
| Sam Taker |
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Blood Freaks
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86 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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The original financier backed out during production and left directors Brad F. Grinter and Steve Hawkes to complete the movie with their own resources.
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Crew or equipment visible: After Herschell gets in a fight with the dope dealer (Guy) he pins him on the ground, lifts away his hands, and as the dope dealer lies there, the director can be heard saying, "Get up slowly."
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References "The Twilight Zone" (1959)
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I guess the first and most obvious question would have to be WHY???more
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A very shaky camera follows leatherclad 'Nam vet Herschell (Steve Hawkes) down the Florida turnpike, where he helps Angel, a stranded, bible quoting "seeker of the truth" in hot pants. The two go back to her place, where a hippie drug party hosted by Angel's cute, baby-voiced "far out" sister Anne is taking place. When Herschell ignores the advances of a woman, she informs him, "You' re nothing but a dumb b***ard who doesn't know where it's at, anyway!"
Herschell ends up getting a job at the father's turkey farm, Anne gets him "hooked" on pot and scientists in lab jackets trick him into eating chemicals that transform him into a turkey headed monster that gobbles, hangs people upside down, slits their throats and drinks the blood, all while dressed in flared bell-bottom pants!
One very blood, standout murder scene has a guy getting his leg cut off with a table saw. Some real turkeys are beheaded, too, for additional gore. But the action stops cold when the on-screen, chain-smoking narrator (played by director Grinter) reads preachy, pro-Christian commentary off of cue cards on a desk!
The big, muscular Hawkes sports Elvis hair, thick sideburns and weird, blotchy skin, and is one of the worst actors I can think of. Other cast members flub or forget their lines and often look directly at the camera and laugh! No one is credited with writing it on the version I have (the original VHS copy), but with lines directed toward Hawkes like, "He's strong, he's handsome and he enjoys being attractive to the opposite sex," I strongly suspect he had his hand in there somewhere.
Do NOT miss this movie!
Score: (technically speaking) 1 out of 10 / (for laughs) 10 out of 10!