Victoria Silverwolf
Vegetarian Werewolf
Blood Mania (1970)
Sex melodrama disguised as a horror movie. Rich guy is dying from some disease or other. His doctor is being blackmailed* by some guy for performing illegal abortions. Rich guy's sex-crazed** daughter kills her father in a bloodless way, intending to inherit his wealth and pay off the blackmailer, in exchange for exclusive rights to the doctor's body. Surprise! It turns out the bulk of his estate goes to her younger sister***. Older sister freaks out and has to be sedated. Doctor starts a romance**** with younger sister. The last few minutes of the movie finally give us something that might be described as Blood Mania, as well as a final shock ending involving a macabre painting.
*In one of the movie's many gratuitous sex scenes, the doctor's girlfriend, a character who disappears from the story quickly, offers her body to the blackmailer if he'll leave her boyfriend alone, to no avail.
**In a very early scene, she attempts to seduce a pool boy by stripping and jumping into the water with him. Hilariously, this classic porno movie situation leads to the boy running away in fright.
***The younger daughter lives with an older woman in a Platonic relationship. It's made quite clear that the older woman is a lesbian but has made no advances to the younger woman. It's a surprisingly sophisticated, if completely irrelevant, subplot for this kind of cheap exploitation film.
****The film wastes a lot of time showing them wandering around a Renaissance Faire.
Sex melodrama disguised as a horror movie. Rich guy is dying from some disease or other. His doctor is being blackmailed* by some guy for performing illegal abortions. Rich guy's sex-crazed** daughter kills her father in a bloodless way, intending to inherit his wealth and pay off the blackmailer, in exchange for exclusive rights to the doctor's body. Surprise! It turns out the bulk of his estate goes to her younger sister***. Older sister freaks out and has to be sedated. Doctor starts a romance**** with younger sister. The last few minutes of the movie finally give us something that might be described as Blood Mania, as well as a final shock ending involving a macabre painting.
*In one of the movie's many gratuitous sex scenes, the doctor's girlfriend, a character who disappears from the story quickly, offers her body to the blackmailer if he'll leave her boyfriend alone, to no avail.
**In a very early scene, she attempts to seduce a pool boy by stripping and jumping into the water with him. Hilariously, this classic porno movie situation leads to the boy running away in fright.
***The younger daughter lives with an older woman in a Platonic relationship. It's made quite clear that the older woman is a lesbian but has made no advances to the younger woman. It's a surprisingly sophisticated, if completely irrelevant, subplot for this kind of cheap exploitation film.
****The film wastes a lot of time showing them wandering around a Renaissance Faire.