6. Blood Freak (1972)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVJDDK05f0I From Brad Grintner, the director that set Veronica Lake against Adolf Hitler in Flesh Feast (1970), comes this Z-grade oddity, surely the greatest film where a stoner turns into a turkey and rampages through a town cutting off limbs with a circular saw. You see, Herschell (Steve Hawkes) needs cash for his habit, so he agrees to take part in trials at his local turkey ranch, where the animals have been fed an experimental growth hormone. Faster than you can say Thanksgiving, Herschell grows a hilarious papier mache turkey head and develops a close attachment to his power tools. In the best scene, he attempts to reconcile with his girlfriend. Gosh, you sure are ugly, she tells him. If we got married, what kind of life would we have? What would our children look like?
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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
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