A Disastrous And Wonderful Film Called Horror Of The Blood Monsters
I knew nothing about The Horror Of The Blood Monsters when I innocently clicked “play” and sat back in my chair. It’s a low budget piece of junk cobbled together from several other low budget pieces of junk like a cut-rate junkenstien, but the sum of all this junk is greater than the individual pieces of junk that constitute the whole. It may be a mess but it’s an endearing mess like a kindergartener’s school play. In fact, many of the production decisions seem as if they were last-minute solutions made by a five-year-old. For instance, large parts of the film were in black and white and when Al Adamson, the director/producer tried to sell the film to drive-ins (his target market) they weren’t showing black and white films anymore, so Al processed the black and white portions of the film turning them into red and white. Again emulating the lack of impulse control indicative of a kindergartener Al decided while he was coloring things why stop at red and white? Al changed some parts to yellow and white, others to blue and white, or pink and white. The movie switches colors every few minutes and then switches to full color and then to stock footage and then to purple until your eyes just want to give up and leave your skull in a huff.
