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Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Scott LeBrun Four lovely young ladies are kidnapped off the streets of Manila, and are taken to a remote jungle location. Here they find out that they're supposed to supply a primitive tribe with the all-important blood that the tribe needs to maintain their youthful appearance. They fixate on one of the quartet, a stewardess named Laura (Jennifer Billingsley), who resembles a portrait in their possession, and intend to make her one of their own. Only, a tribe member named Baru (John Considine) falls in love with her and takes sympathy on her and her fellow abductees. While not altogether terrible, this is incredibly silly stuff, with dialogue spoken by Baru and tribe leader Ranu (Tani Guthrie) that may strike the viewer as being hilariously ridiculous. The principal problem with this thing is that it lacks humour, and is also a PG rated exploitation / schlock genre piece, meaning there is not going to be enough depravity, profanity, violence, and nudity to satisfy most trash lovers. Also, the direction by Terry Becker lacks any sense of style. The pacing is much too sluggish; it could have been sped up, to make the movie more fun, and there really should have been more action and not just talk. In any event, it's worth it to see the level of 1970s era cheese on display ("The Thirsty Dead" does have an adequate "late show" sort of appeal), right down to some absurd costumes. Get a load of those collars! A climactic ageing scene, using the old fashioned time lapse technique, is a mild highlight. Billingsley is much too stiff in the lead role, but she is a looker, as are her three co-stars - Judith McConnell as Claire, Fredricka Meyers as Ann, and Chiqui da Rosa as Bonnie. They make for fine scenery attractions in their skimpy outfits. McConnell delivers the standout performance in this thing as the go-go dancer who would be perfectly happy to change places with Laura, although Considine is remarkably sincere, giving his role lots of gravitas for such a silly movie. Frequent Filipino cinema performers Ken Metcalfe and Vic Diaz appear fleetingly, and the story really would have been better off had Diaz had more scenes. "The Thirsty Dead" is immediately forgettable in the end, but if one is a forgiving and easy enough to please fan of Filipino made schlock, they might find this modestly entertaining. Five out of 10.

Woodyanders Several young women are abducted by a mysterious cult located deep in the jungle. Said cult needs the blood of healthy young gals in order to sustain their immortality. While the offbeat premise has promise, alas Terry Becker's lifeless by-the-numbers direction fails to effectively realize the potential of said premise: The pace is sluggish, the tone too serious, there's precious little tension or spooky atmosphere, and the PG rating puts a damper on any tasty gratuitous female nudity and graphic gore. The competent cast do their best with the blah material: Jennifer Billingsley makes for an appealing heroine as the perky Laura, John Considine acquits himself well as charming cult member Baru, Judith McDonnell adds some much needed (and appreciated) humor and energy as brash and cynical go-go dancer Claire, and Tani Guthrie projects a perfectly ruthless quality as lovely, but evil high priestess Ranu. Moreover, the dungeon of withered old crones is reasonably creepy, Nonong Rasca's fairly polished cinematography provides plenty of pretty shots of the lush tropical scenery, and Richard LaSalle's shivery score hits the spirited shuddery spot. Unfortunately, the always welcome presence of the ubiquitous Vic Diaz is wasted in a regrettably minor part as a police lieutenant. In addition, this picture quite simply lacks the necessary spark to qualify as a fun Grade B fright flick. A merely passable time-waster.

dbborroughs Philippines lensed story of four women kidnapped by a group of men in monk's robes and hauled off into the jungle. There they find themselves unwilling guests for a vampiric cult that follows Juan, a living head in a glass jar full of a red liquid. One of the women attracts the attention of one of then men who wants her to stay with him in their underground lair. Will the girls escape? The real question is will the audience remain awake? This is a snoozer of a film where everything is in a pastel color and it all looks like Hollywood sets. The film is okay to start (I like the sewer sets) but once we get into the jungle this film goes into the toilet. Its so dull and ponderous as everyone talks but no one really does anything. To be perfectly honest once you get to a certain point in the film you realize that there is no real danger any reason to watch kind ceases to exist.For insomniacs only

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Almost Incomprehensible horror movie that can't seem to make up its mind to what it's all about involving these four kidnapped beauties who are needed to supply the heads of this cult of wackos with their blood to keep them alive. The actual head man, someone or something called Raul, of this cult is seen in more or less a cameo role with only his disembodied head seen in what looks like a red dyed water filled fish-tank giving orders to his under-links. What was even more amazing then Raul's head in its being able to stay alive without a body attached to it was its unique ability to both breath and talk, without gargling, while it was submerged underwater!Raul's second and third in command is a couple of crackpots, Baru & Ranu, who've survived the ravages of both time and the aging process living to be almost 500 years old. It's because of the blood of the young woman who they had kidnapped by their hulking servants, a bunch of shaved headed mutes, that the two drink that's been keeping them alive and kicking all these years.The kidnapped girls-Laura Clair Ann & Bonnie-being of sound mind and body, and free of venereal disease, are to be used to supply Baru & Ranu with their youthful and healthy blood for their survive. It turns that Laura is given a free pass in not donating to the Red Cross in that she's actually an old flame of Baru who passed away some 500 years ago. Baru came to that amazing conclusion by his uses of automatic writing that had his hand,totally independent from his both brain and body, sketch an image of her before he even met Laura.Despite being offered the miracle of eternal life Laura is anything but impressed by spending the rest of her life, which would be eternal, with the creepy looking Baru who's anything but a Cary Grant or Tyrone Powers. Baru comes across more like an up to date, as well as better dressed, and modern version of the butterfingered Fritz! Dr. Frankenstein's bumbling assistant in the horror classic "Frankenstein"!After thinking things over Baru himself decides to join the girls with the exception of Claire, who stayed behind and ended up being eaten alive by a hoard of hungry rats, to make a break and escape from Raul, the head in the fish tank, and his partner Ranu's compound. It's later that Baru falls by the wayside, in the Philippine jungles, when his age catches up with him leaving him looking like a dried up and decomposed mango that even the ants and roaches in the jungle would avoid eating.The girls-Laura Bonnie & Ann- making good their escape from Ranu's hulking and diaper wearing thugs and reaching civilization are now in danger of being committed for the crazy and unbelievable stories they tell, the Philippine police, about their incredible adventures in the wild. This in effect gives Ranu and her boss-the head-Raul much needed breathing room to continue and conduct their criminal actions! Of them having kidnapped and then sucking the blood out of young girls, like the one's who just escaped, to keep them alive forever.