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Fresh and Exciting

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Director Herschell Gordon Lewis's concluding film in his "Blood Trilogy" (and final film with producer David F. Friedman) unfortunately just isn't as enjoyable as its predecessors. It's not as delightfully nutty as "Blood Feast" or as much fun as "Two Thousand Maniacs!". In fact, it's downright tedious at times. That's not to say that there aren't good moments - there just aren't enough of them.Gordon Oas-Heim, definitely one of the better actors to be found in an HGL gore epic, plays the highly unlikable, mentally unstable painter Adam Sorg, who's impatient waiting for inspiration to strike. It finally comes when he realizes that human blood provides the perfect shade of crimson for his works of art. He realizes that using his own blood is a very wearying process, so he has to obtain blood from other unwilling donors.Overall "Color Me Blood Red" is fairly amusing cheesy nonsense with the gleefully squishy splatter and inept acting that we come to expect from HGL's films. It has its delightful parts whenever Sorg is busy doing his thing. It doesn't help him that "hip", goofy young folk keep hanging around his beachfront property. It's also cool to see Scott H. Hall, the police captain from "Blood Feast", here playing Farnsworth the art gallery owner. The young gals are all nice looking even if their acting chops aren't up to snuff. The beautiful beach scenery is another plus. And the movie does end on a very funny note with its final line.If you're new to the works of HGL and want to do the completist thing, then "Color Me Blood Red" is definitely worth seeing. Just don't expect the same level of entertainment if you've already seen and enjoyed "Blood Feast" and "Two Thousand Maniacs!".Six out of 10.

I owe this film a debt of gratitude as, increasingly sick of the tiresome goings on, I loaded up Football Manager 2013 on my phone while it was still on... And I'd forgotten how much I LOVE that game. I'm playing as Rangers you see, and I'm currently unbeaten...What? You want you know about the movie? Are you an insane masochist? What part shall I describe? The mind-numbingly bad music? The tomato sauce that's supposed to pass for blood? The MANY time-wasting sequences of teenagers at the beach, teenagers out at sea, teenagers round a camp... etc? The S L O W pace which makes it a chore to sit through? The fact that if this is worthy of an 18 certificate, I'm Bonnie Prince Charlie?Forget it. I'm going to back to thrashing the minnows in the third division... Clyde up next. GOODIE!! 2/10

it's fun to see with an audience going bananas over it...that said the DVD is very good, the print is really good quality. it's a very good looking movie and lots of fun and I like its take on art and violence and snobbery and "daddy-o" ness. it's definitely my favorite of the "trilogy".oh I need more lines. how about one from the movie, "Her blood, you, you used it as paint!?!!?""It's quite the thing to own a Sorge painting!""there is one great painting in all of us.""that caviar critic Farnsworth!"I still need more lines? I mean how much is there to say about "Color Me Blood Red" for goodnessakes!

In Herschel Gordon Lewis' third part of the "blood trilogy" he did with producer Dave Friedman, a local crackpot artist named Adam Sorel (Don Joseph) can't get the right shade of red for his canvases. One day, his girlfriend/assistant cuts herself on a nail and accidentally drips blood on to a canvas. Sorel thinks this is the perfect shade of red he's looking for so he starts off by cutting his fingers and supplies his own blood to his first canvas.But he soon realizes that he doesn't have enough blood to supply all the red 'paint' that he needs, so he goes on a gore killing spree. He starts by killing his assistant/girlfriend by stabbing her to death and burying her body out on the beach near his oceanside bungalow.The next victim is a female sunbather who's pedaling on one of those boat-cycles and is grabbed by Sorel after he kills her boyfriend by ramming into him with his powerboat. He takes her back to the house, hangs her from the rafters and disembowels her. It doesn't look very effective, though. It looks like red-painted pieces of plastic hanging down from the waistline of her pants. We see Sorel squeeze the so-called 'entrails' as he tries to wring every last drop of blood out of her.The daughter of a woman who wants to buy one of Sorel's paintings from him, goes over to his house after Sorel entices her to pose for him. Her teenage friends are outside on the beach roasting marshmallows while they wait for her. As they gather wood for the fire, they accidentally uncover the assistant's body. In the coolest scene of the film, we get to see the corpse's rotting, blackened skull-face with earthworms crawling through and on it. Not bad! One of the boy's goes over to Sorel's house nearby to let them know what they found and he sees Sorel about to strike the hanging girls with an axe, grabs a shotgun that's hanging on the wall and shoots Sorel in the face, turning it into a bloody pulp. It's so cheesy-looking, it's hilarious.The Something Weird DVD uses a print that's a little blurry in spots, but is perfectly watchable. It also includes 10 minutes of outtakes that are interesting along with the original theatrical trailer. It's not quite as much fun as the two earlier films but it's still a gas, anyway. 6 out of 10