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Blood Legacy

  • 1971
  • R
  • 1h 22m
IMDb RATING
2.8/10
953
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Blood Legacy (1971)
Slasher HorrorHorrorMysteryThriller

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone star... Read allIn order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.

  • Director
    • Carl Monson
  • Writers
    • Eric Norden
    • Carl Monson
  • Stars
    • Rodolfo Acosta
    • Merry Anders
    • Norman Bartold
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  • IMDb RATING
    2.8/10
    953
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    • Director
      • Carl Monson
    • Writers
      • Eric Norden
      • Carl Monson
    • Stars
      • Rodolfo Acosta
      • Merry Anders
      • Norman Bartold
    • 38User reviews
    • 15Critic reviews
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    Rodolfo Acosta
    Rodolfo Acosta
    • Sheriff Dan Garcia
    Merry Anders
    Merry Anders
    • Laura Dean
    Norman Bartold
    Norman Bartold
    • Tom Drake
    Ivy Bethune
    • Elga
    John Carradine
    John Carradine
    • Christopher Dean
    Richard Davalos
    Richard Davalos
    • Johnny Dean
    Faith Domergue
    Faith Domergue
    • Veronica Dean
    Buck Kartalian
    Buck Kartalian
    • Igor Garin
    Brooke Mills
    • Leslie Dean
    Jeff Morrow
    Jeff Morrow
    • Gregory Dean
    John Russell
    John Russell
    • Frank Mantee
    John Smith
    John Smith
    • Dr. Carl Isenburg
    Mr. Chin
    • Chin
    Roy Engel
    Roy Engel
      • Director
        • Carl Monson
      • Writers
        • Eric Norden
        • Carl Monson
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      BaronBl00d

      "This house is full of Hate"

      A mega-wealthy man dies and leaves his money to his four heirs to divide. The only catch is that they must spend a whole week in the house. Also, to add some suspense, the will states that if none of the heirs live, then the money is to be divided between the three servants. Well, naturally we know that everyone is going to try to kill everyone in this rather typical storyline. What is not so typical is the level of incompetence used to achieve this goal. Now, unlike the other reviewers, I was able to sit through the whole film in one showing. And as bad films go, and make no mistake here.....this is a BAD film, you could do worse(try sitting through The Wizard of Mars in one sitting for a test of real endurance!) The murders are atrociously executed(both literally and figuratively). The editing leaves much to desire as we see...for seconds only...a head on a turkey platter...some piranhas devouring something, and so on. The acting is ridiculous despite the cast. The film not only has the Grand-master of Bad Horror films, John Carradine(very VERY briefly), but also Merry Anders(her last film), Rodolfo Acosta(his last film), and Jeff Morrow and Faith Domergue from This Island earth fame! Not to mention that guy that played Julius in The Planet of the Apes! You know what kind of film you have when two of the servants names are Igor and Elga, and that Igor has a fetish/need to be whipped by a cane every so often. The other servant, Frank the driver, has a lamp made of the skin from a German he killed during the war. They say good help IS hard to find! The ending is suppose to be comical I think, but more of a relief as you no longer have to see the messy proceedings anymore.
      1preppy-3

      I saw it titled "Legacy of Blood"--it's still terrible

      Ridiculous horror film about a wealthy man (John Carradine) dying and leaving everything to his four children, and his servants to be divided up equally. One condition--they must spend one week in his estate to get the money. And if any of them die, the others get more. Guess what happens next....

      I saw a brand new print of this film on cable. The colors were bright and vivid and the house itself looks beautiful. That's about all the good things I can say about it.

      Let's list just some of the problems this film has: the killer is screamingly obvious; the servants are called Igor and Elga--come on!; some of the sound recording was so bad I couldn't make out the dialogue (no great loss I'm sure); the gore was sparse and very poorly done; the other murders were simply boring, stupid or impossible and this movie contains some truly abominable acting--so bad you just stare at the screen in disbelief. Even pro Jeff Morrow was terrible! The only fairly good acting was from trouper Faith Domergue (who deserved better than this) and John Carradine (who looks painfully old and frail here). I do have to admit though--the closing line in this movie is a gem!

      Why this was renamed "Legacy of Blood" is beyond me--there's another 1978 horror film with that name!

      Whatever its name is, it's a bad movie. To be avoided at all costs.
      3Witchfinder-General-666

      Legacy of Boredom

      I bought LEGACY OF BLOOD aka. BLOOD LEGACY (1971) as part of a 100 movie Horror pack and was somewhat looking forward to it because I am a fan of ultra-low-budget B-movie Horror, and because it has B-movie legend David Carradine in it. I began watching it several times late at night and must confess that it took me several takes to watch the movie all the way through, because i fell asleep several times.

      After the death Christopher Dean (David Carradine), a sinister and rich old man, his family and servants gather in his mansion to hear his will. To their surprise, the crazy old man has ordered that only after spending a week in his mansion they will be allowed to share his inheritance. They all reluctantly accept and move on to stay at the mansion. Then, one by one gets killed... Or, actually, every now and then one gets killed, with endless periods of nonsensical dialogue and tedious sequences in-between. LEGACY OF BLOOD has some fun aspects, such as rather explicit gore-scenes and super-demented characters such as a super-masochistic House servant or a demented veteran (played by John Russell of LAWMAN and PALE RIDER) who collects corpse parts as macabre souvenirs. But overall, the movie is incredibly boring for about 80 per cent of the time. Watching it for David Carradine alone will turn out a waste of time, as he has less than 5 minutes of screen time.

      This film might be be better if it was only an hour long, but a large part of its 90 minutes are very boring. Hardcore Trash-lovers such as myself might still find it enjoyable for some truly demented characters and weird scenes. All others avoid.
      5kannibalcorpsegrinder

      Bland and unimpressive slasher

      After their father's death, a group of relatives forced to stay in his mansion to earn their inheritance fall prey to a grisly killer intent on killing them all off one-by-one and forcing them to try to survive.

      Overall, this was a pretty disappointing and below-average slasher effort. One of the few things it manages to get right is the rather impressive set used for the house, containing all the trappings of a prototypical Gothic mansion from several years earlier and being used to great effect in this. The sprawling grounds are afforded quite luxurious details as there's no end to the massive rooms, intricate furniture arrangements and secret passages that run throughout here, all while still looking like the kind of modern-style mansion that would be used in this particular setting. As well, this also manages to make for a pretty enjoyable time here when it comes to the wild psychedelically-inspired flashbacks throughout here showing the various family members being physically or verbally abused by their deceased father which amounts to them witnessing his transgressions on their younger selves while he beats them with a whip in brightly-lit surroundings which drives them to the point of madness. Along with the fun finale where the killer's revealed, that's all that's good here as this one has too many other problems to really matter here. The biggest factor that works against this one is the fact that there's just nothing of big interest that happens here since this one seems to move about so slowly. This one takes an eternity to get going as the entire first half is spent with the bickering relatives and how their stay is going to be entirely unpleasant, leaving the killing to come along at such an agonizing pace that hardly anyone notices they're gone since they're all off doing whatever fancies them. This makes for an incredibly unappealing amount of time spent away from the killings, not that there's much more impressive material there anyway. The stalking as a whole is rather lazy and uninspired all capped off with really cheap special effects that are supposedly salacious but hardly worthwhile since their cheapness and obvious fake-ness tends to give away the result every time which when coupled with the extreme boredom here makes for a wholly unimpressive effort.

      Today's Rating/R: Graphic Violence and Language.
      5Tera-Jones

      Not Good But Somehow Satisfying

      This film is known as "Will to Die" or "Legacy of Blood" (1971). The movie really does have a great cast but the story is just so-so. The film seems to have potential for a good horror movie but it just didn't quite make it to that status. I will say it's worth a watch for fans of B-horror films - even for a one time viewing.

      The story has John Carradine as Christopher Dean. Dean is a father who has died and "haunts" the estate. He leaves a will -- whom among his ungrateful children will inherit the estate? Who will die? There is a catch and twist ending.

      I'd recommend this film to those that like John Carradine and like just so-so B-horror films... you might get a kick of the movie.

      5/10

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      • Trivia
        The house used for exterior shots was also used for the Batman television series as "stately Wayne manor."
      • Goofs
        One of the girls begins a game of pool by slightly breaking the racked balls, however the next shot shows the balls distributed all over the table as if they had been broken much more forcefully.
      • Quotes

        Frank Mantee: A kraut stuck a bayonet into me. I made a lamp out of him.

      • Connections
        Featured in Movie Macabre: Legacy of Blood (1982)
      • Soundtracks
        Sobra las Olas - Over the Waves
        (uncredited)

        Music by Juventino Rosas

        [Plays over the end credits.]

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      • Release date
        • March 17, 1971 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • United States
      • Language
        • English
      • Also known as
        • Legacy of Blood
      • Filming locations
        • 380 South San Rafael Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA(the house interiors and exteriors)
      • Production company
        • Studio West Film Distributors
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      • Budget
        • $56,000 (estimated)
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      • Runtime
        • 1h 22m(82 min)
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.37 : 1

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