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‘An appalling amalgam of carnage and carnality…’
The Flesh and Blood Present is a 1972 horror movie produced and directed by Pete Walker (Home of the Lengthy Shadows; Frightmare; Home of Whipcord) from a screenplay by Alfred Shaughnessy. The film stars Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, Luan Peters, Robin Askwith and Patrick Barr.

The soundtrack rating was composed by Cyril Ornadel (Die Screaming Marianne).

The movie’s ending was shot in 3D. Within the US, it was additionally launched as Asylum of the Insane.

A bunch of younger actors rehearsing a brand new improvised play in a derelict theatre on the finish of a seaside pier are murdered one after the other by a hooded killer…

Assessment:
There’s little or no blood and a great deal of flesh. The Flesh and Blood Present was Walker’s first horror movie. Earlier than shifting into the horror style, Walker specialised in making titillating titles and it’s sort of apparent that, when he directed this movie, he was nonetheless extra comfy asking folks to undress than asking them to play lifeless.

Versus different slasher movies, the vast majority of the younger solid survives and the just about all the murders happen off-screen. Each couple of minutes or so, another person is getting undressed. The fixed nudity really begins to get fairly humorous after some time. One might very simply use The Flesh and Blood Present to assemble a consuming recreation.

As for the movie’s plot, it offers with a gaggle of actors who obtain invites to an deserted theater.  An unseen producer apparently needs all of them to carry out an notorious play, maybe the identical play that’s rumored to have led to tragedy again in 1945.

If it appears somewhat odd that the movie’s characters would willingly go to an deserted theater in the midst of nowhere and carry out a probably cursed play, nobody is ever going to accuse anybody on this movie of being good. Why ask why when there’s a lot dancing and undressing to do?

There’s additionally an aged main (Patrick Barr) hanging out across the theater. He was really one in every of my favourite characters within the film as a result of he approached the whole lot with this very British, very stiff higher lip angle. After all, the most important himself has a secret. That mentioned, the key isn’t that stunning. It’s apparent as quickly as he confirmed up.

Naturally, all of the murders on the theater are linked again to a tragedy prior to now. The ultimate fifteen minutes of the film are made up of an intensive flashback to that tragedy and I’ll say this: it’s the most effective a part of the movie. The flashback was initially filmed in 3-D and Walker makes use of this as an excuse to bask in some surreal thrives.

There are just a few optimistic issues to be mentioned about The Flesh and Blood Present. Pete Walker was a gifted director and that expertise comes by way of in even his weaker movies. There are just a few scenes the place Walker manages to take care of a correctly ominous environment and the film’s rating is so melodramatic and excessive that it’s sort of arduous to not like it.

Nonetheless, for essentially the most half, The Flesh and Blood Present is a somewhat forgettable movie.  To see a great Pete Walker movie, observe down Frightmare.
Lisa Marie Bowman – take a look at Lisa’s different critiques at HorrorCritic.com

Purchase Blu-ray: Amazon.com

Particular options:
Flesh, Blood, and Censorship: An Interview with Pete Walker, by Elijah Drenner
3-D sequence (10 minutes) within the stereoscopic format (requires a 3-D tv system)
3-D sequence within the anaglyph format (requires purple/blue 3-D glasses, not included)
Authentic theatrical trailer

Trailer:

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Alternative dialogue:
Main Bell [Patrick Barr]: “At all times been keen on the theatre myself. Nothing like a great play.”

Main Bell [Patrick Barr]: “They’re all the identical, younger actors. Filthy and degraded lechers. All of them! And the females. Flaunting their our bodies, providing their thighs and breasts. Scum. Excrement!”

Solid and characters:
Ray Brooks … Mike – Home of Whipcord
Jenny Hanley … Julia Dawson – Scars of Dracula
Luan Peters … Carol Edwards – The Satan’s Males
Patrick Barr … Main Bell / Sir Arnold Gates – Home of Whipcord
Robin Askwith … Simon – Queen Kong; Horror Hospital; Tower of Evil
Candace Glendenning … Sarah – Devil’s Slave; Tower of Evil
Tristan Rogers … Tony Weller
Judy Matheson … Jane
David Howey … John
Elizabeth Bradley … Mrs Saunders
Jess Conrad … Younger Actor
Rodney Diak … Warner
Penny Meredith … Angela
Sally Lahee … Iris Vokins
Raymond Younger … Inspector Walsh
Alan Curtis … Jack Phipps
Brian Tully … Willesden
Jane Cardew … Woman Pamela
Tom Mennard … Fred
Stewart Bevan … Harry Mulligan
Michael Knowles … Curran

Filming areas:
Pavilion Theatre, Cromer, Norfolk, England

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