At spooky old Headstone Manor, eighteen guests are killed in one night in 1975. Ten years later, strange radioactive readings are being picked up in the region and several scientific investigators come to check the place out, led by the one-legged Dr Lukas Mandeville (Kenny Everett) and his assistant Dr Barbara Coyle (Pamela Stephenson).
The house is haunted by a moronic devil-worshipping coven and their exasperated 700-year-old leader: “The Sinister Man” (Vincent Price).
Also heading to the haunted manor are three more cars containing paranormal investigators: John Harrison (John Fortune) Sheila Finch (Sheila Steafel), Elliot Broome (Gareth Hunt), Stephen Wilson (Don Warrington) and American investigator Henry Noland (John Stephen Hill) and his attractive companion Deborah Kedding (Cleo Rocos).
Dressed as monks, the inept Satanists are determined to expel the equally incompetent psychic experts from the house by creating a fire to summon up the exultant one, but they only succeed in cremating their leader.
The movie falls apart in the third act, when it turns out that the strange occurrences around the house are not satanic in nature, but extraterrestrial. The monks take off in a UFO – it seems they were space aliens using the house for their Earthbound pursuits.
The whole film collapses into an incoherent mess of doppelgangers, aliens, flatulence jokes and “smartarse paranormal research crap.”
Nevertheless, any movie that includes the line, “Sounds like a lot of monks exploding,” can’t be all bad.
Former Saturday Night Live member Pamela Stephenson has a brief nude scene (prior to having sex with an invisible demon.)
Filmed entirely on location at Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, Bloodbath contains a high degree of ridiculous overacting by Everett whilst the rest of the supporting cast desperately attempt to salvage the film by playing it straight.
Only Vincent Price emerges with any credit as he joyously hams it up with a caricature of himself.
The script was written by Everett’s regular TV show writers Ray Cameron and Barry Cryer.
Dr Lukas Mandeville Kenny Everett
Dr Barbara Coyle
Pamela Stephenson
Sinister Man
Vincent Price
Elliot Broome
Gareth Hunt
Stephen Wilson
Don Warrington
John Harrison
John Fortune
Sheila Finch
Sheila Steafel
Henry Noland
John Stephen Hill
Deborah Kedding
Cleo Rocos
The Blind Man
Graham Stark
Inspector Goule
David Lodge
Police Inspector
Barry Cryer
Director
Ray Cameron
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The house is haunted by a moronic devil-worshipping coven and their exasperated 700-year-old leader: “The Sinister Man” (Vincent Price).
