Steineded How sad is this?

Reptileenbu Did you people see the same film I saw?

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

eddie-177 The horror films I enjoy usually fall into one of two categories: excellently made, or not well-made but still enjoyable in a trashy or kitschy way. This is a rare example that straddles the line between the two.The film was obviously made with very little budget and by people with only minimal experience in film. But the cast and crew still had experience in the art world. They had good ideas. They knew how much a movie could be driven by its aesthetics.To start with the negatives: the pacing is off, the acting is sometimes amateurish, and while the dialogue is okay, the script is hard to follow. You don't walk away understanding much regarding character motivation, or how action A led to consequence B. But those are secondary concerns if a film is pleasurable overall, which this one is. The framing and lighting are disquieting throughout, with some dream-like scenes producing eerie effects that I've never quite seen before. Certain images--such as a closeup to a distorted view of the main girl's head wrapped in plastic, or a tracking shot of a bleeding man being slung across a ceiling in some kind of otherwise purposeless contraption--will haunt the view regardless of whether or not she could follow the plot. The film's strongest aspect is probably its sound effects and minimalist score, which a blu-ray extra explains were made by a duo consisting of the director's older brother and a man who had been a military audiologist (seriously). The "weaponized" sound effects overcame technical limitations to produce a simulacra of bass-heavy "fear notes," the likes of which were copied and stolen by hundreds of horror pictures. Overall, I'd consider this an important film if it were more well-known. I'm not exactly a horror buff, but I'm somewhat knowledgeable and I'd never heard of it until it was released on Blu Ray by Arrow Films (it's not even mentioned in the Psychotronic Video Guide). But its effects upon trash and horror cinema are palpable, and it's plenty enjoyable for anyone who has a moderate interest in such films.

ChiefGoreMongral Malatesta's Carnival of Blood is a long lost drive in flick starring Herve'de (De Plane De Plane) Villechaize that showed up over the last year on DVD. I wish this would have stayed lost lets take a look at this train wreck. The movie in a nutshell is about a man who is running a carnival that below it harbors zombie-like cannibal people that eat some of the patrons who visit.Let me start off by saying that when the movie first started I thought this would be something along the lines of an H.G.Lewis or one of the many other cool drive-in classics that are out there. However once I reached the end I realized I had just seen a "movie" that was so incoherent that I was amazed that someone actually wanted to dare release this in the first place let alone re-release it to DVD. Where to begin lets start with the good...... It had Tattoo in it from Fantasy Island.....it had cannibals.....someone gets decapitated.....oh who am I kidding this movie BLOWS!!! For me to say that is a lot as I always try to find something good in everything I watch. Let me just skip to the bad here and it is a lot. Do you have an hour of course not so Ill do a brief list of the issues: 1) Editing was GARBAGE. 2) The story (though sounding quite simple) was confusing (thanks to the poor editing and a director that does not know what he is doing). 3)We do not know where the cannibal people come from until the last 3/4 of the movie. 4) Unless I was heavily drugged (or on drugs) most of the sequences were mindnummingly trippy (in a bad way). Lastly 5) The editing was Garbage..oh I already said that.In conclusion if your idea of a good movie is a scotch taped story held together by horrible editing that would make a 3 year old Mongoloid proud and weird sequences that you cannot tell if the person in the movie is dreaming or if it is really going on (again this goes back to editing) Then have at it. I was hoping this would be a cool drive-in movie but it turned out to be THE WORST EDITED FILM I HAVE EVER SEEN (and that is saying a lot cause I have seen A lot). If you could look past all the confusion that this story conveys you are still left with a massive gleaming mess.My Score: 2/10 Very Bad Movie, and not in the good sense either.....I give 2 points for Tattoo only and we don't even get him in the film until the midway point....Please avoid this carnival at all cost, you'll be a better person if you do.That is it for now I hope to have some more reviews up over the next week until then remember: Midgets are cool but midgets used in bad films just makes the film fall that much "shorter".

EyeAskance An off-road ramshackle amusement park is maintained and operated by an odd assemblage of resident vampires, ghouls, zombies...and Herve Villachaiz. When night falls and the gates are closed, these fun-loving fiends retreat into their subterranean home within the murky depths below the park. A strange family unit of sorts, they enjoy watching old horror classics while they wait like hungry spiders for juvenile delinquents and random miscreants to illegally enter the carnival grounds.There's an omnipresence of highly effective eeriness in this divergent, psychedelirious obscurity...in fact, the entire film is viscid with an unearthly distortion of its own secret recipe. It's entirely possible that this surreal edge could be merely incidental to misguidance or clumsiness during production(a scarce but occasional phenomenon exclusive to the country-club of penniless amateur cinema). Whatever the case, it works in a gangly, but wonderful way. MALATESTA'S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD is a gratifying sensory overload in a very elite minor-league of uncatagorizables, agnate examples of which might include BLOOD FREAK, DEATH BED;THE BED THAT EATS, and GODMONSTER OF Indian FLATS. This crazy flick slipped through the cracks once already...let's not let it happen again.7/10

reptilicus I have not seen this movie, but I want to! I have wanted to ever since I read that glowing review in an issue of "The Monster Times" so many years ago. I know the film is out there somewhere because I saw a trailer for it on a Seattle, Washington TV station so it does still exist. Where IS it? I want to see it. Heck, I want to own it! Okay people start checking those film vaults. It has to be out there somewhere so start looking for it. And when you find it, drop me a line.