Blood Sucking Freaks

Master Sardu runs a theatre in New York where he stages a show built around torture and killing. His assistant Ralphus helps him, and the audience takes the violence for clever stagecraft. It is not; the victims are real, and the women who appear on stage have been abducted for the performances. When a critic refuses to write about the spectacle, Sardu and Ralphus seize him and put him behind the scenes. The disappearance of the dancer Natasha pushes her boyfriend Tom Maverick to search for her, while the police show little interest in the theatre.

Joel M. Reed directed and wrote the film, with Alan C. Margolin producing for Troma Entertainment. Seamus O'Brien plays Sardu and Luis De Jesus plays Ralphus, with Viju Krem as Natasha, Niles McMaster as Tom, Dan Fauci as Sergeant Tucci and Alan Dellay as Creasy Silo among a credited cast of twenty-two. Released in November 1976 and running eighty-eight minutes, the film mixes comedy with horror.

Audience response has been modest: on IMDb it holds a rating of 4.7 from around 6,700 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 4.9 from about 130 votes. Both figures point to a small but settled following rather than broad approval.