Blood Harvest (1987)

Blood Harvest: Directed by Bill Rebane. With Tiny Tim, Itonia Salchek, Dean West, Lori Minnetti. Jill, visiting home from college, arrives to find her parents missing, and their home vandalized. Soon, matters take a turn for the worse, when she finds herself stalked, and her friends disappearing one by one.

“An overly bizarre, and sketchy regional psychosexual slasher (filmed in Winconsion) made the more interesting for singer Tiny Timu0026#39;s starring role as the u0026quot;Marvellous Mervou0026quot;. He really gets into the part dressed up most of the time in clown make-up u0026amp; costume, dramatically spouting his dialogues as if heu0026#39;s reciting shakespeare, creeping on Itonia Salchek and obviously breaking into song every now and then to add to his unstable character. We even get an original Tiny Tim jingle over the end credits. His off-kilter, yet misunderstood performance is the drawcard. Sadly everything else is beyond clunky and inchorent, but this no surprise if youu0026#39;re familiar with directoru0026#39;s Bill Rebaneu0026#39;s work.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJill Robinson returns to her rural hometown to face hostility as her home has been defaced, her parents are missing and the whole town hates her banker father due to farmers losing their homes. There she becomes a target of somebody who seems to have in for her. The only two people who are happy to see her is an ex-boyfriend and his mentally not there brother.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThereu0026#39;s something so otherworldly, and dreamlike to Rebaneu0026#39;s execution… flatly ramshackle, yet hypnotic as the narrative erractically jumps between scenes. I felt like i was caught in a daze. It was hard to understand what was going on in the first few minutes, then we follow an annoyingly clueless and grating protoginist (Salchek) make dumb decisions one after another. A lot poor judgement, and unusual character actions on show mainly caught in the one location. The first half feels oddly sluggish and disjointed, but after an hour or so it eventually falls into the usual psychotic, and sleazy slasher pattern of the unseen stalker/tormentor turned killer, where they repetitively tie (the few) victims upside down from the rafters of the an old barn to slit their throats. The climax is surely nutty with over delivered lines, and cheesy crazy facials, but the mundane (and foreseeable) reveal doesnu0026#39;t match it.”