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I thought this movie was weird. First of all it's mainly about naked witches killing people. Well I like that stuff though, also besides tons of nudity it has some gore but not much. The acting is bad but the nudity in this film makes me forget the acting. If you like Witchcraft/nudity/bad acting rent this movie.

This film might stay with you a little longer than most horror movies from the 70's. It's about an ex-Vietnam soldier who doesn't care about the outside world anymore. He finds himself in the woods and near death. He is awoken by a very beautiful pond goddess (?) who cannot love him unless he gets rid of his soul. Of course he wishes to be with her and will do anything to get rid of his soul. He asks the loner woods guy what he should do. He, just like everyone else, warns him to stay away from this woman (Yyalah). But he won't give up. He even asks the local priest how to get rid of his soul (in a slightly comical way, I might add). He decides to go to an evil witch who annually sacrifices a child so that "the village" will have good crops.

Well, I won't spoil it for you, but as you can see, it deals with the supernatural and goddess/witch love. As people have mentioned on here, there is tons of pointless nudity that includes naked slave witches dancing around and worshiping the main witch.

The movie is slightly magical and doesn't seem to be as raunchy as it sounds. There's even nature frolicking scenes and happy music. The actor who plays David must be a bit of a nerd in real life because it shows in the way he acts. He punches in the air with joy when something goes right, or he uses big giant facial expressions as if he were in a play. His acting makes the movie seem a little weird. Yyalah is also quite beautiful, even though she wears a horrible wig the entire time.

I give this a 4/10 because the movie has something about that makes you like it and you can't put your finger on why.

A trippy, hippy horror from the 70s, this weird tale of witches and water nymphs features tons of full frontal nudity, a surreal atmosphere, a groovy soundtrack, and just a little graphic gore, giving it (in my opinion) a distinctly European vibe despite being made in the San Fernando Valley, California. And, like a lot of experimental, psychedelic Euro horror from the 70s, it proves to be rather incoherent, and very tedious.

Anthony Geary plays David, a young Vietnam veteran who falls in love with Yyalah (Susan Damante-Shaw), a mysterious, supernatural blonde woman who cannot love him back because he has a soul. In order to be with the woman of his dreams, David arranges for Alotta (busty Dyanne Thorne of Ilsa fame), the queen of a coven of witches that plagues a nearby village, to relieve him of his soul...

Despite featuring lots of babes with massive minges (as was the fashion at the time) cavorting together in the buff, plus the impressive sight of the legendary Ms. Thorne jiggling her huge cans and shaking her tush, Blood Sabbath is ultimately an unmemorable piece of trash that is unlikely to appeal to even the most desperate of perverts (even if birds with big bushes happen to be your particular thing!). The meandering storyline is extremely dull, and with only one instance of graphic violence (a manky severed head held aloft by Alotta), fans of exploitation and low-budget horror would be advised to approach with caution.

The wimpiest and whiniest Vietnam vet in cinema history (played by "Luke" from "General Hospital")falls asleep in the forest for some reason and when he wakes up he finds himself being assaulted by five beautiful, naked women, so he does what any guy would do--he runs away screaming. Later he falls in love with a fully-clothed water nymph (don't ask), but can't be with her unless he gives up his soul (really, don't ask). Fortunately, the head of the coven of naked women, played by Dyanne "Ilsa" Thorne, is willing to take his soul off his hands, especially after he becomes very insistent ("Take my soul, damn you!"). But then he drinks sacrificial blood which is a problem for some reason and his water nymph lover is horrified ("You're covered with blood. . . sacrificial blood"!). Then the movie just starts to get weird.

Obviously, the only reason to watch this movie is to see a lot of naked women, including the top-heavy Dyanne Thorne dancing around in nothing but a skimpy black bikini bottom. "Luke" has a brief nude scene too (one for the ladies, I guess). It's also pretty unintentionally funny. Besides the looney situations and idiotic dialogue, the movie is chock-full of other absurdities. You would think from the sylvan location of the story and the water nymphs, satanic coven, etc. that this would be set in the British Isles or somewhere in the Old World, but it is supposedly set in Mexico! It doesn't look anything like Mexico and no one maintains a consistent Mexican accent (let alone speaks Spanish), but the coven does decapitate a "padre" at one point. That's the only scene that might recommend this to horror movie fans, but you see one priest decapitated by a satanic cult, you seen 'em all. Then there's the "Vietnam" flashback footage, but the less said about that the better.

Wow…what a piece of trash this movie was! Weird, amateurish and totally incoherent from start to finish, "Blood Sabbath" is not much more than an excuse to show naked chicks dancing around a sacrificial altar, led by the supreme D-cup witch Dyanne Thorne. Not one sequence in the entire movie makes the slightest bit of sense and everything looks so poor it almost becomes pitiful. The film introduces a former Vietnam soldier who's hiking through the woods and, all of a sudden, he's assaulted by a troop of exhibitionist hippie-girls that want to rape him (the poor, POOR guy!!). He flees and wakes up by the side of a river where yet another gorgeous girl awaits him. This time, the passion is mutual but apparently this girl is sort of like "owned" by the local witch coven and, in order to be with her, the dude has to donate his soul to witch-queen Alotta. "Black Sabbath" remains remotely intriguing up until the ceremony where our 'hero' loses his soul… After that, it totally turns into an incomprehensibly psychedelic mess with pointless story-twists and laughable red herrings. The main character constantly suffers from Vietnam-flashbacks but they're completely irrelevant to the story and Alotta enjoys decapitating priests and performs erotic dances in front of the rubber head that doesn't even look like the guy! This sure may looks like a must-see exploitation gem but in reality it's an unendurable and boring movie. The view of the witches dancing naked is not even sexy, since they all have more pubic hair than King Kong! Avoid!

If you want to watch a non-scary boring horror film full of bad acting, a terrible story and lots of women pretending to be witches while fully naked throughout the film then you might like this one because that is what it is.

This is a one star film (if that) but I am giving it a second star for one reason: Anthony Geary. It's neat to see a film he was in before he became a big star as Luke Spencer on General Hospital. His acting got better over the years - he did some acting before this movie and is the best actor in it.

This is a film that fans of bad b-horror can easily pass up. But if you want a post-psychedelic film, lots of fully naked women with a bad story and acting then you might want to find a copy of this to see - if not then pass this film by.

2/10

A Vietnam veteran is trekking through the Mexican countryside when he comes across & is embroiled in an old war between a coven of witches & Yyala, a water nymph. Falling in love with Yyala, the vet finds that in order to love her, he must first lose his soul. He decides to make a pact with the witches in order to lose it, but doesn't realise that life without a soul has its challenges.

Blood Sabbath is an obscure horror fantasy that has recently popped up on dirt-cheap DVD releases & is memorable for having General Hospital's Tony Geary as the 'hero' & plenty of nudity on hand.

For a horror film, Blood Sabbath is nowhere even near scary. As a fantasy film it fails to entice anybody into watching it, as far as story is concerned. But what makes the film almost worth watching is that there is plenty of female nudity featured, which will be the perfect decider to pigeonhole the audience – you're either the kind who can sit through a boring 1970s trashfest just to see the nudity (which the film has in spades) or you aren't. I'm one of the former type – I have a great patience when it comes to these things & enjoyed watching the witches parade around in their birthday suits (although the clarity wasn't anywhere above average since the DVD print from dirt-cheap budget label Payless Entertainment (one of Region 4's biggest budget labels) was lacking in quality).

But despite the nudity, there is almost nothing to recommend the film for. The special effects, when they do appear, are so poor that you end up groaning in disappointment – particularly the severed head that appears halfway through the film (it looks nothing like the character whose head it's supposed to be) & the story is clichéd & stupid.

On the acting front, Tony Geary makes a whiny hero. On the other hand, Dyanne Thorne – Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS herself – makes a favourable impression as the lead witch, clearly having fun with the cruelty of her role.

This starts off OK and with so much hippy flesh on screen seems nothing can go wrong. Even when the water nymph in the flowing white dress emerging from the lake to seduce him before vanishing are fairly promising. And there are other elements to intrigue and titillate. Not least a nude Dyanne Thorne looking much more attractive than in her Ilsa films plus all the blood sacrifice and naked dancing but it all begins to pall. To make our dopey hero who falls for the nymph but has to lose his soul to qualify for her hand, a Vietnam vet is madness. So by around half way so many half working and distinctly not working story lines have been introduced that we loose interest, even in the nakedness.

Boob Sa-butt, more like! If you like nudity, naked girls, and women with no clothes on then this film is right up your street. Our hero, David, is a Vietnam vet wandering the land with a guitar and not much else when he's set upon by naked, annoying hippy girls and before you know it he's being rescued by a water nymph and falling in love. Trouble is, the water nymph can't totally fall in love with him until he loses his soul. Why? I've no idea, but luckily there's a coven of witches nearby who just happen to be on the lookout for a soul. Makes sense to whomever wrote the screenplay, I guess.

You've also got the local fisherman guy, and the local priest who is now having an attack of the guilt after filling his boots with naked witch acolytes for years. What price will David pay for the witches services? How will his water nymph missus react? Does anyone come out unscathed from making pacts with witches? And will Dyanne whatshername get out her knockers and boogie for the lads? The answer to that last one is indeed a 'yes' and it's enough to make a bald man cry, if you know what I mean.

Look, Blood Sabbath is a strange, strange film. It should be kind of boring, but the frequent nudity and all round surreal nature of thing keep you going. David's a Vietnam vet, and I get the feeling that all this film takes place in some kind of purgatory or something, which would explain the annoying hippy people and the flashbacks to him accidentally shooting children. Either that, or I've watched far too many weird films and something bust up there in my brain, there.

I have this film on a collection of 50 horror films; and while this film certainly has some elements of horror I would say it is more of a soft core porn flick. There is a lots of nudity in this one, and while they never really lingered on the actual sex scenes for too long, the scenes showing topless women did go on, so did the ones showing their butt cheeks and even their front areas. This is the one thing that kept this movie from being very boring and not worth a look; however, if you like 70's natural girls then this film has them in spades! To bad they could not have a decent story to go along with the girls and nudity, but I am thinking about the best story you could do here is just forget the soft and add a hard to it.

The story from what I can gather is a guy has recently returned from Vietnam and is just walking the countryside. He gets beer poured on him by hippies and later three naked hippie girls would literally try to have their way with him. He runs for it, making me scratch my head as he awoke to most guys wildest dreams. Two other naked girls even join the other three to chase him through the woods. Well he hurts himself and ends up waking up to find a beautiful water nymph who he promptly falls in love with. So no to three to five hot chicks, but yes to one water soaked vague girl. Yes, he is pretty dense, makes that guy from A Touch of Satan seem like he had a good head on his shoulders. Well, things happen, the guy makes a friend and soon learns of the horrible coven of witches. He also learns the only way to be with the water nymph is to get rid of his soul. So he ends up making a deal with an evil witch whom his friend says you cannot trust, yet the friend instantly believes her when she tells him some information that is obviously made up.

So yes, about the only thing worth watching is the nudity. The story is just to all over the place and the kills to few and far between for this one to be considered a horror film first. The girls for the most part are attractive, the the main witch has a nice body, but her face is not quite up to par. The main girl the guy falls in love with is pretty cute, but a couple of those hippies that were trying to have their way with our hero were cuter. The main witch also does not really know how to curse anyone as the person she put her final curse on ended up pretty much right where he wanted to be thanks to her curse. So copious amounts of nudity, not much of a story and someone should tell that guy that if he wants his soul gone all he has to do is hold his fist in the air and summon Gorgo of the thousand faced moon and he/she will be glad to take it and even give a little something in return.

I voted "excellent" because I have not seen the movie since 1972. I was involved with its production and, quite honestly, had no idea that there was a print out there, anywhere in the world. Thought for sure it had been lost and destroyed. lol I have ordered the film so that I can view it, and it will be fun trying to remember what was what. Tony Geary was an unknown at the time that this was made. Once he made it big on "General Hospital," he would have taken it all back. Again I am laughing because it is a part of my life that I find myself reviewing these days as I approach 71 years old as a little old grandmother. It will be fun to share this with my daughter who had not been born at the time. Bri was a lovely film photographer, a very nice lady, and did some directorial work. Her passing was mentioned a few years ago on the Oscar show. Took me back some. But then many of the people involved with that production have passed. Bill Bairn the producer is gone, Sam Gilman (usually associated as best friend of Marlon Brando's) is gone, Bri is gone, and god knows who else. It was an interesting experiment for everybody. There was an actors strike at the time and it was a bunch of pick up people who did it for fun on less than a shoestring. It was shot in 16mm and transferred to 35mm. Les Baxter took it on as a lark, but his music was hauntingly beautiful. Most of the film was shot on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, and the Gower Street Studio's back lot. Can't wait to see it! P.S. I intend to go through my closet of slides to see if I still have the slides from the movie. I took hundreds. What fun this is going to be. If this is such a cult movie (?) maybne I can get some prints made and sell on e-bay. hahahahaha

Delirious mess of a witchcraft tale is watchable mainly as a showcase for the female bust. 'Nam vet drifter David(Anthony Geary, "Luke Spencer" of GENERAL HOSPITAL fame) is nettled by a group of reckless hippies who are having some sort of baby-oil orgy in the wilderness. By and by, he falls in love with a foxy water nymph named Yyalah, but she can't requite his affections "because he has a soul". The inimitable Dyanne Thorne(of the amazing ILSA films) turns up as a witch named Alotta (hmmmm...now there's a name you can have all sorts of fun with), who has plans of her own for David. This very druggie deep-woods tale of love, lust, and the supernatural culminates in a satisfactory bittersweet finale(and a closing credits crawl with that distinctly MARY-TYLER-MOORE lettering font), but getting that far along is a challenge and a chore.

An occasionally interesting, but mostly tiresome affair from the post-psychedelic burnout years(a place in time which I personally refer to as "the rattan zone"). If you're not a dedicated completest of 70s horror trash, you might opt to give this one a wide berth. I'm pretty sure it's inspired by, or very loosely based on Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's 19th century romantic fantasy novella UNDINE.

4/10

I recently watched Blood Sabbath (1972) on Tubi. The story follows a man who is "rescued" by a coven of witches-though they have their own dark plans for him. Like other men he encounters, he quickly falls under their spell. Meanwhile, a power struggle within the coven may offer him a chance to escape.

This film is directed by Brianne Murphy (To Die, To Sleep) and stars Anthony Geary (General Hospital), Susan Damante (Ladybugs), Sam Gilman (One-Eyed Jacks), and Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS).

Blood Sabbath is one of those films that feels a bit all over the place. The cinematography is rough, with a distinct low-budget, grainy '70s aesthetic. The eerie background music adds some charm, and the cast is undeniably attractive, with an abundance of nudity. Highlights include the female cult scene involving body paste and a topless beach seance-both striking and bizarre. However, the story often feels like a series of loosely connected excuses to get to the next cult or nudity sequence rather than a cohesive narrative.

In conclusion, Blood Sabbath is a '70s cult curiosity filled with beautiful women, ritualistic scenes, and psychedelic flair-but lacks a clear story or direction. I'd score it a 5/10 and only recommend it with the appropriate expectations.

Traveling through the countryside, an ex-Vietnam soldier finds that the woman continually tormenting him belongs to a coven of witches forbidden to have contact with humans like him and tries to free himself from their grasp using her own magic to spend their lives together.

There were a couple of good things in here. One of the best things is that the film has a solid enough central setup that it has an abundant amount of nudity. There are so few clothes worn that nearly three-fourths of the film has someone nude or topless, which is a staggering number that is nicely appreciated and really sells the film as the exploitation piece it feels was the point behind it. Much of this is due to the film's habit of showcasing the witches completely nude as they prance around doing whatever is willed upon them that is a good portion of the film, and some of the later scenes where the Queen gets involved in the activities gets a lot to like with the generally enjoyable look of everyone involved. There's also some fun to be had from its coven activities. The ceremonies that occur throughout, as well as the scenes that feature them cavorting around with others to get what they want, are all pretty fun and enjoyable. The later scenes where the spells are put on display with the special power struggle between everyone who is looking to continue their relationship or hold on to power where there are a bunch of really great scenes between everyone that make for some really nice moments of toying and tormenting each side with their supernatural powers. The last one is the fact that this one has a rather nice pagan atmosphere that comes along from the interaction between the different forms of spirits with each other, and it feels very dreamlike at times. These here are the film's good points as there wasn't much wrong with it. The main thing with this is that the film exists solely for its nudity meaning that not a whole lot of anything else happens. This one, for those who have no need for the nude factor, won't find this one too interesting or exciting making this one incredibly boring most of the time. That's not all too good since the film's pacing is so slow and dream-like that it takes an eternity for something to happen which isn't helped along by the film's lack of action that, if found in the right mood and conditions, this one can come across as being boring and completely worthless. Those who don't have an appreciation for its good points will be the ones who come out of this with that mentality, but overall it's the only real thing hurting it.

Rated R: Continuous Full Nudity, several sex scenes, Language, and Mild Violence.

Films like Blood Sabbath make me I wish I had been born 30 odd years before I was, and in America. Its not the quality that makes me crave them on a big screen but the frequency, these offbeat oldies oftimes pulse just the way I do, and on the best of occasions I can feel them in my bones. Blood Sabbath works just this way, ample charms and never intended as anything more than it is. The plotting is nearly as bare as its women, but actually throws up some interesting points, I doubt too much thought went into it but its a nice unifying thread. Basically a wimpy Vietnam vet named David gets tangled up with a cult of witches after falling for a water nymph, leading to interesting repercussions. Actor Anthony Geary has little more than a wafer of presence as David but the character is still interesting. Being a Vietnam veteran devoid of any significant craziness makes him an anomaly of the era's drive in cinema, but his past sets up some motivation for his desires. Then there's the way in which the film treats his motivations and somewhat suspect behaviour in the later stages, largely without judgement. Even when outright horror intrudes things remain fairly upbeat, and this establishment of possibilities which are then largely left aside is a feature I found rather fascinating. Its as if the film-makers wanted to make a horror film, but particularly wanted not to bum out any cinema patrons, who would likely have some kind of viewing aids on the go and not be in the market for any down feelings. Normally I wouldn't dig this approach at all, but it contrasts quite nicely with the underlying darkness of the themes, and also the film has enough in the way of lovely women to make the lack of weight far from an issue. Comely Susan Damante has a perfectly charming presence as water nymph Yyalah (I hate water but would happily spend eternity in a lake with her), and an impressive array of beauties make up the rest of the witch cult, including (apparently) an uncredited Uschi Digard. Natural breasts, soft round asses and plentiful sweet unshaven bush, once things get moving there's a delectable smattering of nude dancing and seduction scenes, backed up with a spot of atmospheric lightning and a cool Les Baxter score. Smooth pipes, gentle percussion, lulling guitar, soft and psychedelic stuff that goes down a charm. Oh and Dyanne Thorne is the head witch, cunningly named Alotta, she's a sultry, dominant and macabrely giggling delight in the part, clad mostly in a real snazzy red gown kinda garment. This is really a film for select audiences, more a sexploitation joint than horror and never too graphic or challenging, those who dig this kind of sexy hippy era time capsule fare may well get a kick out of it though, much as I did. Worth a watch if it seems like your cup of tea, but it doesn't re-invent the wheel or anything.

i give this one an "8".it's not perfect though i do really like it. it's likesome late night psychedelic folk-lore. the film is available on pal format but not ntsc unfortunately. i'd highly recommend it to anyone who loves psychedelic skin flicks or witch films in general. i often find myself double billing it with "the dunwich horror"-basically due to the time frame of the films as they really don't have much in common except for the psychedelic factor. i have to say check it out, though be for warned your not in for a thrill ride here. but it does have dyanne thorn so your definitely in for eye-popping visuals there. this cinefiend says "tune in turn on and hit play".

Admirably stuffed full of naked witches for much of the running time, this nevertheless succumbs to boring interludes at times. However, there is a plot of sorts, and some progression within it, if you are minded to stay the course - despite all the nonsense.

For me, the biggest issue was with the soundtrack, which I found unbearably dated and hippyish - although I note that several commenters here quite liked it... each to his own, I guess. There is a bit of colour bleaching also (at least on the version I saw) but, for what must have been a *very* small budget, the results are not bad, and quite fun, if you like this sort of not-very-horrifying vintage "horror".

Worth a look.

this film with its terrible special effects and no existent storyline has earned a special place in my heart, the 'decapitated' head that looked nothing like the decapitee, the poor lighting, the even worse dialogue I LOVE it

A passable load of nonsense lent a certain charm by the utter soppiness of the two main characters - a young man and his water nymph girl friend.

They are kept from getting together because he has a soul and so he seeks out an evil witch to take his soul away so that he can be with his water nymph forever. This seemed to involve a lot of topless jiggling by said evil witch.

The same weekend I bought this DVD I also bought Octopus II, She Lives by Night, and Boogeyman 2, and compared to them this was a masterpiece! Still I was glad I'd only paid £2.97 for it.

Blood Sabbath (1972)

** (out of 4)

David (Anthon Geary) is walking around the country when he comes into a small town. He goes to sleep one night in the woods and is woken up by four naked women climbing over him. He manages to escape from them (why?) and then meets one woman and quickly falls in love but she keeps refusing him. It turns out he's gotten involved with a coven of witches and now they are going up against Alotta, the Queen of the Witches (Dyanne Thorne).

BLOOD SABBATH isn't a masterpiece or even a very good movie but it's got a few interesting aspects that make it worth watching. I'd be shocked if the budget was over $100,000 but that's not a slam on the picture. It's clear that they weren't working with much of a budget yet they appeared to find every woman that was willing to strip down. The film might not offer a very original story but it offers up plenty of nudity and then there's Thorne.

The biggest problem with this film is its pacing. The film moves way too slow for its own good and this was especially true for the final twenty-minutes or so. Before all of that, we're actually treated to a mildly entertaining film. I thought Geary was good in the lead role and at least kept you interested in what's going on. Susan Damante was good as well and it's always fun to see Thorne.

Another good thing about the movie was the setting as you really did get the feeling that you were out in the middle of nowhere. BLOOD SABBATH isn't going to have too many fans out there and especially since there are so many better movies dealing with witches. Still, if you're a fan of these types of movies this one is worth seeing.