Vampiro 2000
Italy 1975. Director: Riccardo Ghione
Cast: Enzo Tarascio, Marina Malfatti, Daniela Caroli, Claudio Biava
Aka: Il Prato Macchiato di Rosso

A truly sickening film of the kind you'll love to hate. Or hate for loving. It's about two hippies who are invited by a strange doctor to a party in his big house. It later shows that the doctor (Enzo Tarascio) have invited many homeless people as well and soon some of them disappear mysteriously without a trace. The party soon degenerate into orgies in bad sex and bad dope. Our two hippies decide to go down in the cellar where they discover plenty of nude bodies in a gigantic fridge. When our hippie hero see the fridge with all the bodies piled up he complains about the cold. It is soon unveiled (surprise surprise) that the doctor is mad and that he and his chainsmoking ice-cold wife (played by blond blueeye Marina Malfatti) are dragging people down to the cellar where they kill them (I think), strip them and empty them of all their blood which they then sell to a good profit. The gigantic device used for the purpose must be seen to be believed. It look like spare parts from a diving-bell and a vacuum cleaner. Actually the whole movie plays as if director Ghione has smoked something bad while writing the plot. Psychedelic acting (Enzo Tarascio is especially dreadful, wearing an enormous bow tie), blurry photography and dreadful editing, it's all tied together by a disgustingly oily theme song. Ghione previously directed The Love Circle in 1968 from a screenplay by Dario Argento and he also wrote the stylish The Dark Side of Love twenty years later. Vampiro 2000, on the other hand, is a complete failure on all levels and a total waste of time. Though for some reason I suspect some of you will adore it because of it. I know I do.