Blood Delirium

Blood Delirium (1988)

Delirio di sangue

NECROPHILIA! MADNESS! MURDER! DISMEMBERMENT!

After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for "inspiration". He soon meets a beautiful musician who looks exactly like his late wife and brings her back to his castle. However, she eventually discovers their secret: the butler murders young women, disposes of their bodies and uses their blood--"the color of life"--for the artist's paints.

Date of release
1988-08-08
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (14)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Horror
Director
Sergio Bergonzelli

Casting

Interesting facts

Blood Delirium is a direct-to-video Italian horror film directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. The film involves the painter Saint Simon who loses his sanity after the death of his wife. Along with his butler Hermann, they meet a young pianist named Sybille who resembles his dead wife home to their castle. After Saint Simon discovers that blood from a murder victim re-inspires him artistically, he orders Hermann to seek out more women for him while Sybille is held captive in the castle.

Production

Blood Delirium was director Sergio Bergonzelli's first attempt at a gothic horror film in his three-decade career which spanned working in Italy, France, Turkey, Spain and Greece. The director was predominantly making pornography for most of the decade and had only returned to feature film work with this erotic thriller Tentazione. Bergonzelli is credited as Peter Storage in the film's credits.

Among the cast was John Phillip Law who took on the role to work again with his friend Gordon Mitchell. Law spoke negatively about the film later, "That one, yes, is extremely bad. When my Italian agent found out I had starred in it, he practically exploded.

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