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3/10
Looking to the past
BandSAboutMovies30 January 2023
Warning: Spoilers
There's a moment in this movie where a date happens at the drive-in to watch Grave of the Vampire and that's how you know this is a movie, because the girl in that scene is so impossibly gorgeous the fact that she's down to go see Michael Pataki and eat in the car proves that this is either fantasy or she's a dream demon of some sort.

Anyways - this is a brand new movie made to look old and yet I can't hate it. Even when someone makes a smoothie out of a cat or it gets impossibly talky or too mean spirited, I still admire the DIY nature of it all, it still has Dave "The Rock" Nelson playing the role of Amber Lynn in Things and claymation credits and a segment about creepy crawling and that wins me over.

Made for about $5,000 by director and writer Bruce Longo, this also has a scene where the aforementioned girl shows off her tumor and dead mouse collection amongst her The Tomb of Ligeia poster. Women like this exist - I married one and you can't have her - but not all that often.

Also: Bonus points for Pacey wearing a River's Edge shirt.

This has the feel of real SOV, the kind made in backyards with no real budget, movies where weird kids got to be Herschell Gordon Lewis for a day and get their hands wet with animal guts and then upset all of their relatives who asked to watch it.
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9/10
Loving authentic tribute to SOV splatter.
revterry19 June 2022
If you stay up on your micro-to-low-budget horror (that's a thing everyone does right?), you may have seen quite a few attempted throw backs to the SOV horror of the 80s and 90s. Mostly this includes a obvious filter, applied to the digital film. However this is not the case for Blood Sick Psychosis, which breaks out the camcorder instead for that authentic, grimy feel.

More than that, it captures the genres vibe on every level from the story to the splatterific gore effects. Good old fashioned, mean spirited, gross fun - pure and uncut. Bringing to the screen grainy violence, Satan and metal/punk.

If you are a fan of early Olaf Ittenbach, Jon McBride, Marcus Koch or even the super 8 films of Nathan Schiff, give this throwback a try.
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