Blood Bath (1966)

Directors: Jack Hill, Stephanie Rothman, Rados Novakovic, Michael Roy
Notable Cast: William Campbell, Patrick Magee, Rade Markovic, Miha Baloh, Marissa Mathes, Linda Saunders, Sandra Knight, Carl Schanzer, Biff Elliot, Sid Haig

While the latest Arrow Video release Blood Bath isn’t necessarily for the usual flock of cult cinephiles that the distribution company aims for, it is a set that explores, in a way, one of the more interesting aspects of low budget cinema: reshoots, edits, and the Roger Corman way of low budget film making. Contained in this set are actually four (!) various versions of the “same” Roger Corman produced film in various versions with new scenes, cut scenes, and various states of presentation. In a way, this review may be one of the strangest ones I write for Blood Brothers considering the odd series of events and production pieces that went into the four different versions.  As a word of warning, I’ll do my best to keep this review short with overviews of the different versions and their comparisons instead of a full on exploration of each film on its own. Truthfully, the film isn’t really great enough to go into horrendous detail with a two page review of each cut, but it is one that cinephiles will find fascinating in its own regards no matter how good or bad they think the film is.