Friday, September 29, 2023

Short Film: Maxx Bloodd - Vampire Spy


Directed by Rock Savage and released in 1993 (allegedly, there isn’t an IMDb page) this comes in at a scant 40-minutes and follows the exploits of super-spy Maxx Bloodd (Rock Savage), a vampire working for SNUFF – the Scientific Network United for Freedom.

The film starts, however, with the crime lord called Crackheadd (Frank Vassallo) whose strange head would seem (at least with a sfx at the end of the film) to be meant to have been made from porcelain. He has a host of henchmen including Enema Ernie (Nick Walker) and Deathfist (Eric Koger). Crackheadd has the mayor (also Frank Vassallo) compromised.

The spy who bit me

There is a fear that the drug war will be used to usher in totalitarianism and so SNUFF approach Bloodd and offer him a serum that will suppress his hunger for blood, not that it seems to make much of a difference as he bites plenty of folks through the film. Bloodd was a Weatherman (a far left revolutionary group active in the US in the late 60s and early 70s) and suggests that a gypsy woman offered him everlasting life and made him a vampire.

Father Dick Gozinya

The video quality is absolutely awful, the sound compromises itself and the humour is mostly puerile, but ranges to offensive as there is an unfortunate use of blackface as Vassallo plays the mayor. However, if you like your flicks as low budget and as lowbrow as you can get them (how lowbrow? the vampire hunter is called Father Dick Gozinya (also Frank Vassallo)), then you can get this on DVD from Etsy.

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