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A family with a few secrets of their own are terrorized by the spectre of a Japanese samurai warrior at their home deep in the woods.People begin to die,some by sword,some by arrow before mother's two kids step in and dispatch the sword-wielding samurai with their newfound magical power."Blood Beat" is a strangely fascinating film to watch.It has tons of flaws:confusing plot,lousy sound and cheap optical effects that made me laugh.There is some nudity and gore(knives entering bodies,a bloody stomach and neck wound)to keep your mind briefly occupied,but I'm still trying to understand this bizarre supernatural slasher.Wish me good luck.6 out of 10.

You could call Blood Beat a slasher film, but that would be too easy. It might have all the trappings of one (mostly one secluded location, a sword twirling villain, a decent body count), but it marches to the beat of its own wonky drummer.

I'm not saying Blood Beat is good, but nothing this unique and odd can be totally bad. I was riveted from start to finish, so it must have done something right. Mostly, I just couldn't believe my eyes. I found it all rather well shot and appealing looking and the addition of a Japanese samurai as a villain is certainly not something you see a lot of. There's also an incredibly odd sequence (in this movie? Shocker!) where a young woman's masturbation seems to beacon the killer to her location. It sorta felt like a similar moment in High Tension.

Blood Beat is a hard one to recommend, because everyone's threshold for strange, artsy trash is different, but it's worth giving a shot. You might enjoy it.

"Blood Beat" follows a young woman named Sarah who goes along with her boyfriend to his family's rural farmhouse in Wisconsin to spend Christmas. Their celebrations are soon interrupted by her boyfriend's mother's apparent psychic visions, followed by the spirit of a Japanese samurai soldier armed with a sword who begins decking the halls with body parts.

I think it's probably inarguable that "Blood Beat" is the strangest Christmas-set horror film that's ever been made. It's not really a "Christmas film," though for some reason it is set during the holiday; it's also not entirely a slasher film, as it is littered with supernatural goings on and psychic extravagances that go without explanation.

The most baffling (and alluring) thing about the film is that next to nothing is elucidated for the audience; the psychic connections between the characters, the ghost of the samurai, the utterly bizarre dialogue--it all comes and goes with a casual passiveness that is rather astounding. I have read that the French filmmakers who made the film were on drugs during its shooting, which does not surprise me in the least. However, I will admit that, despite its logical inconsistencies and bizarre structure, the film is actually well-shot, especially for having been made on a shoestring budget. It looks fairly professional and slick at times, save the odd camera filter edits that go wild in the final act. The atmosphere is at times creepy and oppressive, and the wintry woodsy setting is well-captured, adding a chilly element to the proceedings. In some ways, the film reminded me of its equally strange contemporary "Satan's Blade."

Overall, I found myself consistently perplexed and amused by "Blood Beat," mainly because so little of it makes a shred of sense. One can try and put the pieces together themselves, though I'm not sure they were designed with the forethought to be put together in the first place. The film is utterly bizarre, and I say that as someone who has seen their fair share of weirdo genre flicks. If nothing else, "Blood Beat" is a true B-movie one of a kind. 6/10.

A family's Christmas reunion gets off to a bad start when the son brings home his girlfriend, leading to an awkward feeling of deja-vu between her and the boy's psychic mother. Weird things begin happening, the weirdest of which happens to be the presence of a glowing samurai warrior who's murderous tendencies appear to be linked to the girlfriend's orgasms.

"Bloodbeat" is one of the more bizarre films you could ever see. What we have here is a slasher shot in Wisconsin by a French director with a ghostly samurai as the killer. It's actually pretty effective for the first two thirds of the running time, particularly a creepy home invasion and ensuing chase. Through some splendid editing, this sequence is interspersed with the girlfriend's writhing and upward-thrusting in bed. It's also undeniably cool seeing a samurai as the villain in a slasher. During the final third, however, the film veers off in an unsatisfying direction with over-the-top antics and ridiculous special effects. Disappointing, but not enough to ruin the film for me. Oh yeah, excessive overuse of violin chords too.

Bloodbeat is an odd tale about a brother and sister who come home for Christmas...only to end up fighting for their lives in a battle of light vs darkness.

The kids grew up hunting deer with their father, but their mother is a psychic artist, sorceress and prophetess, who paints what she forsees.

Thus, when her son brings home his new girlfriend for Christmas, to meet the family, she senses that something isn't right with her.

They make the mistake of bringing the girl deer hunting with them.

Where she ends up freaking out and running away...right into the path of a dying man.

Later that night, she has a dreams of finding a suit of samurai armour in a chest.

Now, every time she gets riled up- or has an orgasm- this rogue samurai comes to life...and attempts to hunt down and kill any and all of the deer hunters who happen to be in the vicinity.

After killing all of the neighbours...the ghost turns his sights on the family itself.

The mother- having been privy that something was awry- tries to intervene, and use her magic to stop the entity.

But it's vengeful spirit is just too powerful.

It's not until the two siblings combine their powers- which they have inherited from their mother- that they are able to stop this dark ronin once and for all.

The film doesn't do a very good job of explaining exactly who the ronin is, where it came from, why it was attached to the boy's girlfriend, or where the mother had "seen (the girl) before", despite those being central elements to the plot.

It all just kind of goes down...and then ends.

So you're left kind of confused in the end, other than, perhaps, to read into it, that the ronin is the devil, who, for some reason, has become attached to the girl, so as to attack this family that possesses powerful spiritual abilities.

But, really, that's all just reasoned speculation, based on a few subtle elements of the storyline.

It's not the worst supernatural Christmas slasher out there, but, they certainly could have done a better job developing the plot structure a little better...

4.5 out of 10.

I happened to stumble upon the 1983 horror movie "Blood Beat" here in 2021. And yeah, I had never even heard about the movie, so I didn't know what I was getting into here, aside from it being a horror movie. But of course I gave it a chance, as it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. Who knows, maybe I had been missing out on a great horror cinematic experience.

Turns out that I hadn't. I truly and honestly hadn't missed out on anything here. The storyline in "Blood Beat", as written by writer and director Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos, was just insanely mundane, slow paced and rather boring actually. It was rather difficult to submerge myself into the storyline here and take a liking to the characters or the storyline itself, as everything just felt so bland.

For a horror movie then "Blood Beat" was a swing and a miss, no pun intended. Even for a movie made in 1983, then this was a stale horror experience, as there were far better and far more scary horror movies in the years before this one and the same year. So yeah, "Blood Beat" didn't really cut it.

The acting performances in the movie felt somewhat rigid and wooden, as if the actors and actresses weren't really buying into the plot and storyline themselves. And it showed on the screen and it certainly was keeping the movie down a notch.

If you enjoy horror movies, even the old 1980s horror movies, then there are far, far better choices readily available out there, and I wouldn't really recommend you wasting your time, money or effort on "Blood Beat".

My rating of writer and director Fabrice-Ange Zaphiratos' 1983 movie lands on a generous three out of ten stars.

What in the name of Santa Clause was this? Well, "Blood Beat" is what happens when you insist on watching several Christmas horror movies during the holiday period each year, and you're running out of options. When all the decent and half-decent ones are gone, you're left behind with A) lousy and incomprehensible low-budget 80s guff, and B) movies that only feature a tree and some lights to indicate it's a Christmas flick.

Like practically every other reviewer on this website, I don't have a clue what "Blood Beat" is about. A family in rural Wisconsin gathers for Christmas, but the mother and the son's new girlfriend immediately don't get along because they're both weird. Family hunting parties end in hysteria, mommy makes hideous paintings with a trembling hand, the groceries fly around in the kitchen, and the housecat takes a nap in the middle of the Monopoly game board. And, oh yeah, whenever the girlfriend is sexually active in her bed, someone violently dies by the sword of an infuriated and vengeful Samurai Warrior spirit. Doesn't all this sound utterly ridiculous?

Yes, it does! "Blood Beat" is one of the strangest movies of the 80s, and - as far as Holiday Horror goes - the worst one since "Silent Night, Deadly Night: Part II" and the 2009 "Black Christmas" remake. The only noteworthy moments are some brief nudity scenes and a flashy blue lightshow during the climax.

Sarah (Claudia Peyton) accompanies her boyfriend Ted (James Fitzgibbons) and his sister Dolly (Dana Day) to the rural Wisconsin home of their mother Cathy (Helen Benton) and her partner Gary (Terry Brown) to celebrate the holidays. During a spot of deer hunting (just the ticket to get one in the festive spirit) Sarah freaks out, after which things get very strange indeed: running through the woods, Sarah stumbles into a man with a stomach wound; Cathy gets the feeling that she knows Sarah from somewhere else (why? I haven't the foggiest); Sarah finds a samurai outfit in a trunk (which promptly vanishes with no explanation), Cathy paints uncontrollably; and someone dressed in the samurai garb starts to kill people with his katana. From time to time, the picture is solarised for the samurai's POV, and in the craptabulous finalé, several of the characters' hands begin to pulse with energy for a baffling showdown against the killer.

I haven't the faintest idea what writer/director Fabrice A. Zaphiratos was thinking when he made this oddball horror-very little about the film makes sense-and the result is definitely one of the strangest films of the '80s. Unless you're a fan of the completely absurd, give this one a miss. Even if you are a fan of the completely absurd, think seriously before viewing.

Some brief nudity and a smattering of gore earn this mess a paltry 3/10.

I was quite surprised by this movie. Obviously it was made with no money at all, but acting, photography, editing and story are well done. Proves once more you can do an entertaining movie with very little. "Blood Beat" owes a bit to "Poltergeist", "Witchboard" and "The Shining" maybe, but has a good storyline of its own about the ghost of evil (dressed up as a samurai warrior, also incarnated in one young lady) against a family whose members seem to have a certain talent for (good) magic. The special FX to show the magic (red powerlines vs blue powerlines) look ridiculous by today's standards, but hey, this is just a cheap little horror movie to waste a Sunday afternoon with, okay? The movie has a couple of memorable scenes (e.g. the samurai slaying the older woman, while the possessed young lady is getting more and more "excited", I thought the rapid cutting was breathtaking). If you see a copy on a probably dusty shelf, give it a try, as the video tape will be cheap I bet.

So, following the very much perfect Deadly Games, things took a turn for the weird, but I couldn't really say bad. Now, let me preface my review by saying that Blood Beat is one of the weirdest films that I have ever seen in my life.

From the extremely awkward close ups, to the really awful dialogue, to the terribly loud classical music that pretty much conceals any real words coming from the actors, to some really weird female orgasms, to a Japanese samurai killer, this is all just really weird.

The plot, from what I could tell was this: A brother and sister return from college to visit their parents in Wisconsin. The family is very fond of deer-hunting by the way. Anyways, the brother decides to bring home his girlfriend to stay with him at his parent's house. As soon as the girlfriend meets the mother, she gets this really peculiar look on her face. The mother starts to become really erratic, draws really abstract paintings, and becomes mentally unstable. She somehow can see that the girlfriend is evil, even though she is actually really sweet. The girlfriend is creeped out by the mother. Regardless, a samurai ghost starts to kill people throughout the area. And whenever the ghost kills people, the girlfriend gets a massive orgasm that practically makes her levitate.

Like I am not even kidding. Whenever the ghost stabs someone with the sword, the girlfriend has the most incredible orgasm that people could only dream to have. Like what in the actual hell? It was so weird, but was kind of cool too? Anyways, the samurai ghost causes the house to have an earthquake, people start dying, the family obtains really weird mind-trick powers (that have horrid special effects), and an epic mystical fight between the mother and the girlfriend happen.

Now, this may sound confusing. But I would try to urge you to watch the film, because it was one of the most unique cinematic experiences I have ever had. The filmmaking wasn't bad at all (except for the cheesy effects), but the acting, although horrendous, was probably intentional. Nothing made sense at all, but it was highly entertaining.

While many people left the theater, about thirty of us remained, and we laughed, loudly expressed our happiness or anger, and ultimately had a blast. I have never screamed out "WHAT?!" in the theater so many times in my life. It was so weird and made no sense, but it was totally enjoyable.

I would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to enter a cinematic void, and escape the mass amounts of horrendous blockbusters that consume every AMC theater. Also, if you enjoy female orgasms from ghost samurais stabbing people with their sword, then here you go.

PS: Despite how horrendous the special effects were, I will rest my case that it beats a lot of modern CGI, especially in Justice League.

Not even making that headline up. This movie covers a lot of ground, explains nothing, sets up almost nothing, uses student film special effects, has the most convoluted plot of any movie I've seen, and yet I couldn't stop watching it. Overall a 5, but a solid 10 on originality. Watch it, you won't be disappointed

If you're like me, you look at new horror films with a frowny face. What's with the remakes, the constant reboots, the sequels of the reboots and then with the mockbusters! What ever happened to all the original low-budget horror films? There used to be such a big market for all the quirky, unintentionally schlocky flicks!

That's when you dive to the vhs dumpster that is the Full Moon Features streaming service, pick something up with the tiniest amount of consideration possible and finally end up correcting your opinion: it's all just a collection of knock-offs, some of which just happened to turn out truly strange.

A french-american co-production, Blood Beat seems at first like an Evil Dead impersonator (a group of people get stalked by a mysterious force in the woods of rural Wisconsin - sound familiar?) but it turns out to be quite different. For a fan of clumsy horror, probably the most thankful thing about this movie is that the antagonist is not a living dead as such or even a sasquatch. It's a japanese samurai, because like the director said: "Why not?"

This film is as puzzling in its incoherence as can be. The family itself is actually quite realistic in its dysfunctional qualities, even going as far as showing the siblings trying to set up Monopoly while their cat helps by laying down on the game board. Also, the way the family mother welcomes his son's girlfriend with a cold shoulder for the holidays at her home really creeps me out. But that's about it. There are good and bad psychic powers at play, mysterious paintings that cause seizures, a poltergeist that concentrates exclusively on kitchen utensils and a telephone, the gleaming eyes of buddha, gritty killings that cause remote orgasms, a kind husky with eyebrows of the devil and a wasted opportunity of a murder scene concerning a waterbed. Yeah, it's one of those where you can list all the strange details but can't even begin to explain the plot properly.

While it is incredibly clumsy, at times frustrating and lacks captivating on-screen action and decent gore effects, there are some redeeming factors. The soundtrack is fascinatingly weird, consisting of experimental minimalist synthesizer music and famous classical compositions. Some of the photography and lighting look quite convincing and the on-location sets put the viewer in the correct mood. The editing is strange indeed going off the rails with trippy optical stuff and psychedelically filtered pov shots, but not entirely off-putting. It's something you want to see completely and in all of its glory once you start.

What's most interesting is that this off-brand avantgarde incarnation of Evil Dead with Predator as the villain was almost lost forever. The 35mm prints from which Vinegar Syndrome created the 4K version suffered from moist and mold damage. They've certainly done a huge effort here.

While watching Blood Beat, I couldn't help but wonder if this was someone's student film project. While there's clearly talent at work here, it comes across as confused and unfocused without anything it's really trying to say or give the viewer.

The sword-wielding spirit of a Samurai possesses a college girl while at her boyfriend's family's house for the holiday break and causes all sorts of strange things to happen.

Blood Beat is nearly impossible to critique, because it's so hard to figure out what it's even about or what the filmmakers were intending. What it does have going for it is a lot of low budget filmmaking charm which takes it further than it probably should.

Just watched this flick and I was thinking, what did I see. I noticed on the net that this is still an OOP and people are searching to find this mysterious flick. It's a bit of supernatural combined with horror. But it is all filmed with weird effects and weird story lines. It all starts off pretty well by getting to know the characters. A supernatural mother gets a weird feeling by seeing the girlfriend of her son. But after a while we get knowing that they all are supernatural and some samurai is hunting the forest and their house. Sometimes it made me remind of the original Boogeyman. The effects I mean. Sure it is a low budget flick. The mother and the girlfriend are believable. That makes the movie watchable. I never understood why masturbating of the girlfriend was so important concerning the samurai. Couldn't get the plot of the movie neither. Anyway, I got my copy on DVD-R and I'm glad I've got one, a weird one to watch, bloody weird.

Ahhh, the hilarity of it all! What a weird movie. Just the linking in storyline of deer hunting, a samurai, a neurotic painter, a visiting girlfriend with an orgasm problem. A treat to watch, very original and very cheesy, especially during the poltergeist effects. Well worth the full watch.

So, I don't really know how to rate this... Certainly, it's a 1/10 by most standards, but it was 10/10 in terms of personal enjoyment. If you like everything to make sense and be explained when you watch a movie, you probably won't like Blood Beat one bit. But, if you like movies where you sit back and things just happen, then you may like Blood Beat. The main things I liked about it were:

1. The music. Weird electronic pieces (especially the intro), and as the poster says, Profokiev and Vivaldi. I like that sort of music, and I definitely appreciated how little it fit the movie. Just a really odd creative choice there.

2. The samurai. Those effects. Good lord. Also the glowing hallway. How? Why? Very entertaining. Very much liked the disappearing chest scene, too. Cool sword.

3. The atmosphere. This thing feels like a sitcom sometimes, and also very surreal. The whole thing was just so inexplicably bizzare.

Blood Beat exists in that strange, rarely charted territory between art film and slasher flick. It has the gory goods, but it also wants to do something different with the slasher formula and say something about psychic connections and female power. I'm not sure if it's very successful with that, but I can pay Blood Beat one of the greatest compliments any film can get - I've never seen anything else like it.

I quite frankly don't see how anyone who has reviewed this movie has the ability to describe it. The audio is so muddy, and the lighting so poor, that I had absolutely no idea what was going on or why. Some deer hunters and other area yokels are killed by a bright blue light with a sword. Okay, yeah, fine, whatever. I was unsure even what their relationships were. It seemed like they were all related, but then they were sleeping together, so either there was incest, or they call each other brother and sister even though they're married. Maybe a cult? Couldn't tell you and could NOT care less. Avoid unless you are trying to get your Hurter Qual Card punched. It's not worth the time you will spend going "Wait, what?"