Blood Cult

A slasher film cut with witch horror, where the latter is unfortunately just a harmless ritual in the woods. A killer ambushes female students, butchers them with a meat cleaver and takes a part of each. The goal is to assemble a new creature, something like Frankenstein did, to be sacrificed to the Devil, guaranteeing the cult members immortality and other associated pleasures. What's different from the usual slasher films of the time is the victims' efforts to survive. They fight the killer bravely and scream like sirens. It takes an unusually long time for the killer to take them down. Significantly weaker than The Ripper, especially the unraveling of the mysterious cult is somewhat drawn out. Besides the human victims, a dog loses its head… PS: Charles Ellis looks like Donald Trump here, it was somewhat confusing to me. (2024.07.19)