A masked killer prowls the beaches of Argentina, injecting beautiful girls with heroin, and then using weird organ music to make them his zombie slaves.
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Yes, well... Any reason why I might recommend anyone seeing this? The black and white photography is crisp and attractive, as are most of the girls and the Les Baxter like music has some appeal. My disc has the ambiguous title of The Deadly Organ on it but it is almost universally known as, Feast of Flesh and with this title accompanies, Night of the Bloody Apes on the Something Weird label. To be honest The Deadly Organ is more appropriate but this is a tale with a monster, some girls and a lot of police guys doing a lot of chatting and no story at all. The night club scenes are OK because we get some silly dancing and the passable music but I must mention here that we also get, apropos nothing whatsoever, a striptease and it is the worst I have ever seen.
Organ player wearing grotesque looking mask stalks young women, injects them with heroin, and then hypnotizes them with his organ playing and turns them into his love slaves, before stabbing them with a hypodermic needle the size of a turkey baster and leaving them on a nearby beach.Mm hmmm. Really silly looking font for the title; beatniks playing bongos and dancing, then stripping; and buxom babes on the beach provide a few unintentional laughs. Occasionally (deliriously) atmospheric visuals, like killer shown reflected in shattered mirror, and its high contrast black-and-white photography and stark lighting give the flick a certain creepiness, but overall, this is the type of sleazy little flick which can only be watched to wonder what the hell was being taken/ drunk during filming (which couldn't have lasted more than a day or two)
I can't blast Placer Sangriento like everyone else on this board. I liked it. It reminded me of early Franco as did Vieyera's later effort, Dr. Humpp. The black & white photography is very atmospheric and moody, the girls are very sexy and the storyline is sleazy enough. Like a lot of horror films of that time, the police procedural footage is dull. I've often wondered if these scenes were meant to be for restroom breaks when they played theatrically. The ominous, memorable central music theme reminded me of the sensational main theme by Allesandro Allesdandrini in a film made years later, The Devil's Nightmare. Placer Sangriento is currently playing in a 20 minute version on Comcast on Demand in the Something Weird section (they sell the full version on DVD).
Maybe I watched the wrong movie.I heard this described as Argentine giallo. So, where's the blood. Not a drop anywhere.I almost thought I was watching Gidget goes Hawaiian as the film was mostly a bunch of young beach goers and a man running around in a goofy mask stabbing people with a needle.Supposedly, this goof was drugging young girls to satisfy his lustful passions before killing them. I say supposedly, because you never get to see any of this.Feast of Flesh? Maybe if you are anorexic it is a feast. It should be more aptly named Nibble of Flesh, as that is all you got - not a mouthful, just a short taste. That was at the beginning of the movie and the rest was just PG. Who cares why this jerk killed the girls. Stabbing with a syringe is not giallo and it certainly wasn't horror.