Flesh for the Beast

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WOW WHAT A JOKE!!!! I think this is by far the worst movie I've ever seen.If you even want to call it a movie. Because its really a bad porno shot on dads video camera.There is really not to much i can say here this does not even qualify as a real movie.There is no story i can see here,There is no acting what to speak of but rather * talentless naked bodies in this,these people are not real actors but rather amateurs that belong in porno movies.There is no real photography to speak of,but rather a home video or should i say home * video attempt here.How does something as tasteless as this even get a video stores,its amazing to me.And the obscene amount of gore and blood is just laughable.What happened to CLASS! there used to be so many great old classics in this genre,what has happened to movies ,its so sad so very very sad.

watching flesh for the beast is comparable to jumping out of a three story window and suffering no injury. you have no idea how it happened but you know it was incredibly awesome. this movie has everything a horror fan looks for-tons of sweet gore, soft core *, bad acting, awkward plot, and heavy metal. the original score by buckethead is the component that puts this otherwise great horror flick into legendary status. i also applaud the originality in this film. carnax? carnivore from the nexus? succubines? that's amazing. while i do think this movie may be the greatest thing ever recorded, i do not recommend it to everyone, in fact, only handful of people in world are actually able or worthy to view it. i am just thankful that i am one of those select few.

Not that bad at all! I had read some user comments on this site and was worried I was going to completely waste my time watching it. Nothing like bad reviews to set your expectations low!!! True, the dialog was awful, I mean painful in some places, but the gore was a beautifully bloody mess! Got to love it when someone vomits up their own intestines...... I thought it could have been made more interesting at the end. It was interesting how the esp gal was one of them too. It could have been played up a lot differently for a much better effect. And why if the guy had the medallion didn't he USE IT. I read several comments on here that mentioned the soundtrack. I thought it was good, effective music in the places it was used....but i hate when the music is so much louder than the people's voices that you have to keep adjusting the volume. Overall, definitely worth renting...good gore scenes although the sex scenes were unconvincing. And the guys kept saying how "hot" the women were although I didn't get that! Relatively unattractive bunch in my opinion....

Flesh for the Beast is a film that comes very close to B-movie hall of fame, and then completely throws it's momentum down the toilet. The first few minutes are really intense, the best in the movie in fact. I was really overjoyed by what was happening on the screen. Add to that a creepy score (provided by Buckethead no less) over the credits and I was downright looking forward to the next 80 minutes. I wasn't even bothered by the fact that it wasn't shot on film. I was willing to overlook it. However, I was not willing to overlook some very lame actors. Some of the worst I've ever seen. But I still didn't want to fault it; I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. This was going to be a classic. I mean Caroline Munro and Aldo Sabrell were going to be in here somewhere so the acting level would rise, right? Right? Not quite. They have one scene, and it's a flashback. The movie kills whatever class it could have had by throwing in a very bad sex scene every five minutes...literally. Not that it would have necessarily been a bad thing. Nudity is sometimes a must have with these flicks, but it's something you really don't want in this one. Like many others have pointed out, there's not a gorgeous women in sight. Not even a remotely "she's alright" one. I mean, was Julie Strain that busy? Why were these lame sex scenes tossed in? It just wasn't necessary. I've read that the film was trying to be a throwback to the 70's Euroshock era, and I supposed they succeeded more-so than not. But it still wasn't a good movie. I wanted a Night of the Demons style gorefest and I got just another terrible softcore * that director Terry West has done in the past. Note for genre buffs: A few of the character names are actually famous horror authors.

This low-budget Euro-sleaze wannabe had much that should have been going for it. A haunted chateau, hosepipe levels of blood and cute girlies happy to share their comely wares with us. In theory it is exactly what the horror market needs given our long sleaze famine since the early 1980s. I was a wild optimist on first receiving my DVD. Unfortunately it is brought to screen as a combination of "Blair Witch" and "Deep in the Woods"- without the latter's great cinematography. Its low budget allowance kills off any sense of mystery and wonder. Being shot with a home-vid look makes it seem like a half-baked indie effort. It frankly looks like a group of film students on an away day in dad's attic. However what really seals the fate of this unfortunate exercise is the quality of the acting. It is truly WOEFUL. Ed Wood meets....well....Ed Wood. They must have signed up their local check-out assistants for this one. Lummie!! So, Terry West and Co., you tried. You had the right idea. But....well.....you failed.

Let me start by saying that I had been waiting to see this movie ever since I saw "the making of" on the Blood Feast 2 DVD. This looked like it was going to be just incredible. I kept thinking to myself "Man, that movie is going to be such a bloodbath". I couldn't have been more disappointed. The story goes like this: there is an old mansion that used to be a Brothel about 100 years ago. Weird things happened and the place closed down with the owner of the place mysteriously disappearing. Present day. A group of ghost hunter's (I think) decide to explore the house and try to unlock its mysteries. The opening scenes to the movie made it look like it was going to be incredible. Unfortuanitly, after the opening scene the movie falls apart. The first thing to go is acting. Now, I am the type of horror fan to overlook acting as long as the movie itself is interesting. Not so with this film. The acting was just atrocious. The second thing to go was plot. The movie quickly falls flat on its face as it would seem that the plot is going nowhere. The third thing to go was an over abundance of soft core *. With a movie like this I would expect to see a few * chicks here and there, but this is just ridiculous. Especially a scene where 3 woman are having a sensual moment with very fake looking intestines. The only thing this movie had at all was maybe 3 good death scenes but that's it! Highly boring, no real plot, you need to be really loaded to like this movie. 3/10 stars

The first sign of trouble for "Flesh for the Beast" is that the DVD case (which is otherwise very nice) advertises most prominently music by Buckethead. Nothing against Buckethead, but since when do people watch horror films for their music? Good or bad (I honestly can't remember), the music does nothing to save this poor excuse for a horror film, which is in fact *. Sure, there's blood, zombies, and cannibalism, but the central focus of the film is sex and female nudity. The plot concerns a crew of ghost busters hired by a rich man to investigate his haunted mansion. A video crew accompanies them for what I guess was supposed to be comic relief. Soon succubi show up and promptly take their clothes off to bed down with the male cast members before killing them. Each killing is preceded by a different succubus related sex fantasy. After the killings we are "treated" to a loooong sequence of the unfettered girl-monsters playing around in the blood. Anybody who sits this far into the movie won't be able to call it horror with a straight face. And no, it isn't at least funny instead of being scary. This movie is a thorough going piece of crap that expects you to take each pointless scene seriously. It's all especially disappointing because the first scene makes it look like "Flesh for the Beast" might be a real horror film. Unfortunately, like the stud arriving to fix the cable, this is only a set-up. There are a couple of twists that render the plot ridiculous just to reminder the renter/buyer of this film they've been cheated. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece here or even in interesting failure, but if I'd known this was a movie exclusively about hetero-* I'd never have bothered with it. I wish distributors (this means you Shriek Show) would mark movies like this with a soft-core tag accompanying whichever genre their movie is pretending to be. The scariest thing about this movie is the DVD art which successfully hides nearly any trace of the film's pornographic content.

Boy, am I in the minority on this one. I thoroughly enjoyed this film and consider it to a very fine throwback to the gloriously down'n'dirty European exploitation horror films of the 70's. First off, I appreciated Terry West's moody and visceral approach to banging out a horror film. There's very little CGI (one quick morphing scene), the editing wasn't done in that hateful rapid-fire MTV music video style, and the digital photography was a tad rough, but overall quite spooky and effective. Moreover, the gore was plentiful and suitably sickening (splatter highlights include one guy vomiting forth his entire intestinal tract and another dude being literally drenched with a bucket of grue). The fact that the story was told with utmost seriousness and an increasingly all-too-rare sense of conviction (thankfully there's no dreadful "Scream"-like" "it's-only-just-a-movie-folks" self-consciousness to be found here) was a substantial plus. Okay, I'll admit that the acting was strictly hit-or-miss and the dialogue tended to be clunky. Furthermore, I personally found the much-derided sex scenes to be quite steamy and the much-maligned actresses to be very attractive (it's nice to see a recent horror film with equally ample amounts of both sex and violence that are prominently presented throughout with extremely graphic and unwavering explicitness). The key aspect of this movie which for me makes it a true winner is the fact that not a single woman gets killed in it (with the notable exception of Caroline Munro, who gets offed in a flashback by Aldo Sambrell). For once it's only the guys who get gruesomely bagged left and right. On in interesting note, almost every last man gets offed after having sex with one of the succubi, thereby illustrating how sex can be used to manipulate men into a vulnerable position. It's this gender role reversal that makes "Flesh for the Beast" so refreshing. Usually just woman are killed for being openly sexual; here the tables are turned on the men for a change. (This is probably why a lot of folks don't like this movie.) And this pic even comes complete with a profound statement about how such fundamental human weaknesses as lust and greed feed evil and keep it thriving for perpetuity. It's articulated in a throwaway line at the very end, but it's a spot-on astute statement that I give the movie additional props for saying.

I don't even know where to start. Let me just say that every time one of these new "horror" movies gets released, I keep hoping that this is going to be the one that finally nails it. Instead, I get a badly acted and badly written mess of a film that's only purpose seems to be to display gross * women that you wouldn't even want to see naked anyway. The most thought seems to have gone into the awfully drawn out and completely rigid sex scenes that are about as tantalizing as the drab dialogue. However, the saddest thing about this film is that the gore sequences actually had the potential to be really creepy, if they hadn't gotten lost in all the other rubbish. After watching the documentary, I could see that the director was incapable of coaching an actress into being convincingly scary and "evil" as a demon. It also doesn't help that he hired a bunch of sleazy sex flick chicks who wouldn't know acting if it bit them on their pasty asses. I can honestly say that the best thing about this movie is the music by Buckethead. Therefore, I recommend that you go out and buy a Buckethead CD instead.