Reviewed By: Hal Astel
Oh my goodness Blood
Rage was bad, and I don't just mean bad I mean really truly beyond all reason
bad. This now occupies the dubious position of 'Worst Film of the 1980s' in my
ratings and it may just stay there for a long while. Everything about it is
bad: the direction, the writing, the dialogue, the acting, the concept, you
name it. And for a film in which almost all the female characters get naked to
be this bad is almost unheard of. The best part of it is a short appearance by
Ted Raimi as a condom salesman and it's over in about five seconds. He's
outcredited by a baby.
The lead character Maddy
is a mother of twins and we start the film with her cuddling and kissing with
her boyfriend in a car parked at the drive through. The twins wake up and sneak
out of the car but one of them, Terry, is rather unhappy about what his mum is
getting up to, so kills a rutting couple in another car with an axe and blames
his brother Todd. Yes, the axe is just hanging around somewhere. No, his
brother doesn't say anything to contradict Terry's statement. No, nobody
notices that Terry is covered in blood and Todd just has some on his cheek.
It's all taken as read and off Todd goes to the looney bin.