Deafula

 

 (imdb)

DEAFULA-1975-This is the first movie done completely in sign language. Funny that it's a horror movie. A guy named Steve (hearing impaired writer/director Peter Wechsberg) kills some people and drinks their blood. When he was a kid his father/minister gave him blood transfusions, but he still killed his pet dog and drank its blood. In the present he's going to church when a stoned hippie couple try to rob him. When the male hippie stabs him multiple times Steve turns into Deafula in black cloak and phony nose. He makes them drive their motorcycle off a cliff. Butterfield (Dudley Helmstreet), a detective from England and a nameless local detective search for clues. Turns out the detective knows Steve. Even though he called in Butterfield to help, the detective treats Butterfield like an idiot even though it's clear he knows something about Steve. Deafula kills a woman then hypnotizes 2 punks into mutilating her body. 

Later there's an eerie flashback to Steve's birth where we learn Steve suffers from a rare blood disease and can only survive if he gets a blood transfusion every month. After his father dies Steve visits his mother's friend Amy who was there when Steve was born (and his mother died). She has a weird looking servant who has tin cans instead of hands. She relates her own flashback. And Steve learns the truth. Dracula is also his father (his mother was his victim). 

There's really no other horror film like DEAFULA. It's the first all ASL film and takes place in an alternative universe where no one speaks. Original shown silent, the version I saw had subtitles and a narrator.

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