This film centres around the exploits of witch/medium Mara, who is happy to perform curses if the price is right, and her coven who like to sacrifice men - which is a kind of gender reversal as it's usually good looking, naked women who normally end up on the alter in such movies. Films concerning black magic were quite popular around this period & this certainly has a stand out title. Sadly it does not deliver on the promise of either orgies or blood. I'm surprised that it's rated 18 here in the UK, it really is quite tame. It's also pretty boring & repetitive, suffers from bad acting & poor production values, though it's low budget obviously has to be taken into account.

This is not a scary or polished horror film, but a very personal and knowledgeable morality play about the supernatural evils of our world. Ted V Mikels has made so many fluffy and shallow movies that works like this get overlooked. He has some genuine experience with the occult and its dangers and his best stories reflect this. The characters and action in "Blood Orgy" are his most realistic and disturbing. Mikels pays more attention to his art direction and soundtrack here to produce an appropriately dark and creepy atmosphere and mood. This isn't as commercial and fun as HG Lewis or other schlock from the period, but its more sincere and effective. This film shows Mikels was probably the least cynical of that genre of filmmakers even if he wasn't the most polished.

So here am again trawling through known worst in some hope of locating a redeeming factor (as someone here earlier assessed it, in a sort of 'masochistic movie musings mode'), and you should know - especially if paid attention to other reviews here - that being a T. Mikels' film, the answer is that still, it's a resounding NO: not least because most of it is shot in the dark (even one bright sunlit exposition scene still has one of the dialogue interlopers filmed in darkened face shadow, still!)In fact the most useful advice I could pass on was that perhaps it would be a good one to put on for the background to a (Halloween?) party or the likes (thanks 'Al Omega' of online Creature Features) coz in its way, this could be of aural interest, first for all the really hokey dialogue (Main witch star, Mana (Lila Zaborin) mostly not really acting, only emoting - once in almost an (ex UK PM) Margaret Thatcher style barking out "I'm not here to frighten you; I'm here to help you!"), but also because the soundtrack has some great trippy sounds on it seeming more appropriate to a sci-fi offering (kudos to Carl Zittrer and/or James Christopher in the music / sounds departments): and yes, as warned, no orgy folks, but towards the end some pretty dancing (well hop and jumping) girls bop about to a pretty cool drumming beat. Oh, and also that if right on full throated feminine screaming somehow does it for you, then these otherwise amateur delivery actresses really put their heart and, well, lungs, into their cue, 'scream' scenes, indeed!So there you go; plenty to keep ya ears attuned to, but otherwise, visually, on the whole - i.e. throughout - absolutely nothing (although I do wonder if the Monty Python team, circa Life of Brian, had seen and been inspired by the flashback stoning scene): as one other reviewer also suggested rank as below = sub zero: so, actually, standard fare for Ted as usual, really. What would you otherwise ever expect?

Bad, boring, black magic mumbo-jumbo written and directed by Ted V Mikels("The Girl in the Golden Boots", "The Corpse Grinders")shows no blood, but there is an orgy of tedium. Mara, the "Queen of the Black Witches" kills via black magic - in this case, muttering the lines "so mote it be" over and over ad naeuseum, or pretending to channel an native american spirit who talks in the worst "Injun" dialogue ever ("you no want-em pappoose". The She-devils are her scantily-clad, empty-headed dancers, who perform odious dances not unlike those in Mikels' other miserable dance-choaked films ("The Girl in the Gold Boots")- in fact, Leslie McRea appears in both films, and is equally wooden. What "Blood Orgy" has that other Mikels' debacles doesn't is a lot of screaming - a whole lot! So much of the dialogue is screamed by the actors that the whole herd got a raging headache long before the much-welcomed ending. This is one of the longest 73 minutes you're likely to spend, and certainly one of the moost boring. As one character aptly states: "I don't like what I see here". The MooCow agrees whole-heartedly. :=8P