Delirio di sangue

I can't believe that Sergio Bergonzelli's "Blood Delirium" has such low rating.I guess that some people can't even recognize a good movie."Blood Delirium"/"Delirio di Sangue" deals with dark love and obsession.It's creepy,sleazy and gruesome-it has scenes of necrophilia,dismemberment and several rather repulsive images.The film is well-acted and stylish.In the broad form "Blood Delirium" is another Italian shocker that sometimes seems to aspire to be a drama-what sets it apart is the overbearing perversion.The film is extremely hard to find,so if you get the chance grab the copy and treasure it.8 out of 10!

Blood Delirium is a very creepy and atmospheric Gothic horror shot on the cheap in Italy. A deranged painter and his butler dig up his wife's grave a year later to use her blood as secret ingredient in his highly acclaimed paintings. The butler is also nuttier than squirrel turd and a huge pervert, necrophile and rapist. The tone of the film is very dark and sleazy. The quality of the production is above average for a film this cheap. The acting is convincing and oozing with creepiness and depravity. The film has lots of gore, nudity and awkward creepiness and mental illness. It also has a dark ambiance. Recommended to those that want something bizarre and twisted.

Misogynistic Trash. Really awful film. I read that Sergio Bergonzelli directed mostly porn during his career. I believe it. He managed to get a bad performance out of John Phillip Law. He managed to get a bad performance out of everybody.

The story takes the mad scientist trope and adds a twist. John Phillip Law plays a mad artist who can see small parts of the future. Gordon Mitchell plays his rapey necrophilic Igor-like sidekick. There are many sexual crimes.

Brigitte Christensen is the protagonist. She spends most of the film waiting around and needing to be rescued. Marco Di Stefano plays her boyfriend who eventually goes looking for her.

On a positive note, the castle location is fantastic!

And there was a brief, but interesting time-traveling ghost idea. But it seems like the director couldn't decide if the ghost was time-traveling from the future or from the past. It didn't matter. The ghost was just a deus ex machina and was not a central part to the movie which was mostly about madness and misogyny.

Neurotic artist (John Phillip Law) is driven luridly insane by the death of his beloved wife (Brigitte Christensen), and his spectacularly vile necro-cannibal manservant (George Mitchell) diabolically turns the maniacal maestro's ancestral pile into a gruesome, cadaver-strewn nightmare! While the text is an amusingly camp, cliché-sodden shambles, the goofy exchanges, wanton sexual perversity, bloody eviscerations, unleavened hysteria, and endearingly rudimentary practical FX provides a cornucopia of bloodthirsty B-movie mayhem! This tantalizingly trashy, goriously tasteless Gothic slasher has scintillating Schlocky sensibilities on par with John Waters and H. G Lewis, thrillingly making 'Blood Delirium' a delirious treat for Euro-cult horror fans! Technical aspects of the splendid Screenbound Blu-ray are exemplary, pristine sound and vision enhances the plasma-plastered shocker's dazzling idiosyncrasies, and the extras offer compelling insight into the making of a sleazily demented Italian cult classic!

Possibly the rarest Italian horror film out there and most definitely also one of the absolute weirdest productions ever to be released, "Blood Delirium" is NOT a giallo-mystery, NOT a zombie-flick and surely NOT a brainless slasher rip-off! This is something new and entirely different from Italy; a brutal horror story that successfully blends together harrowing drama elements with artsy themes and repulsively perverted footage. John Philip Law, the former action stud from "Barbarella" and "Danger: Diabolik", stars as a slightly deranged painter who lives in an isolated ramshackle castle and he firmly believes he's the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh. When his beloved wife Christine dies, he suddenly loses all his artistic inspiration but remains in the castle with the necrophiliac butler Herman. The painter eventually falls back in love with Sybille, who's the mirror image of his departed wife, but his inspiration doesn't really return until he discovers the blood of young murdered girls as the ideal shade of red paint. "Blood Delirium" is quite a disturbing film, especially since the sequences involving necrophilia & misogyny are illustrated like it's the most common thing in the world. For example, when the painter is still mourning for his deceased wife, the crazy butler (perfect role for exploitation-veteran Gordon Mitchell) crawls on top of her corpse and starts caressing it. Later in the film, the two men also dig up severely decomposed corpses, assault defenseless girls and carelessly dismember their limbs to make painting. Their actions are a lot more unsettling to behold, because they don't look or behave like your average homicidal maniac or demented serial rapists. "Blood Delirium" literally oozes with dark and bitter atmospheres, as it deals with complex characters and their even sicker world perspectives. It's not just another silly and gory 80's flick, but a devastating depiction of man's darkest mind-corners. The are loads of resemblances between Sergio Bergonzelli's script and Vincent Van Gogh's actual tragic life, which is a truly brilliant and original concept for a horror film. Bergonzelli clearly didn't have a large budget to work with, but the film nevertheless looks stylish and competent. The photography is rather monotonous, but this suits the overall tone of the film and especially the melancholic music tunes are terrific. "Blood Delirium" is an extremely difficult film to find, and I don't understand why. I'm sure this would be an authentic Italian cult treasure, if only it could reach a slightly wider audience on DVD. Catch it if you can!