The Blood of Milligan

BLOOD-1973-This time in the Andy Milligan dimension, Regina Orlovsky (Hope Stansbury), the daughter of Count Dracula and Lawrence Orlovsky (Allen Berendt), the wolfman’s son are in an unhappy marriage that revolves around blood, murder and raising carnivorous plants.

Regina: “I hate you! Go to hell!” Lawrence: “We're already there!”

They are assisted by a motley crew: Carrie (Patti Gaul), who has a gamy leg, Orlando (Michael Fischetti), who has no legs and walks on his knees and Carlotta (Pichulina Hempi) who has legs but is an abused babbling fool who’s used as a blood supply for the plants. Larry kind of falls for the secretary of Mr. Root, the lawyer who handles the estate and has been siphoning money from the account. Once or twice Larry turns into a wolf and a guy gets an axe in his head but all the sfx are laughable. The dialogue and acting are insane and sometimes it looks like a school stage play. There's some strange parts too. Like Carrie's brother comes to visit secretly. From their conversation and actions they’ve obviously had an incestuous relationship but when they part he’s killed and never talked about again. What was the purpose of this scene? Actually what was the purpose of this whole movie? I’ve read Milligan fans consider this his best film. I hope they mean his best worst film! Despite being set in the 1800’s it just looks like people in the 20th century walking around in 19th century clothes.

 It's running time is BLOOD’s saving grace. It comes in just around an hour. I wish Milligan could have gotten himself an editor. Filmed in the director's old stomping grounds of Staten Island NY

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