Blood Beat. Fabrice Zaphiratos, 1982.
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Edition screened: Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray #191, released 2017. English language. Runtime approximately 86 minutes.
Summary: Desecration of a deer’s body.
Details:
1) Dead deer lying (can you guess?) in the back of a pickup, 04:02-04:19.
2) Deer’s body hanging from a tree while a social deviant plays with its entrails, beginning at 06:07. Then some kinfolk buffoons pull up in a bitchin’ mucus car, and they all have family chat around the carcass through 8:04.
3) A final nostalgic look back on the gutted deer hanging from a tree, 57:21-57:27.
Disregarding the hunting porn, Blood Beat remains a total stinker. The extensive documentation of interiors in two rural 1980s houses is very accurate, shockingly so, as though the director gained permission to just set up cameras in real retarderies. This might lend Blood Beat its only social or entertainment value: Hey, you know those fat smelly guys who don’t shave and wear filthy baseball hats 24/7? What do the insides of their houses look like? What kind of furniture do they have, and how do they organize their housewares and store their linens? Here you go.
The VS release also includes a 28-minute Silent Version remix of Blood Beat, plus the well-intentioned short film L.U.N.C.H. by the director’s son, the former retaining all the deer porn of the original, the latter being a completely different and cruelty-free effort.