Blood of Ghastly Horror: what does that even mean? It's just a bunch of random horror-related words clumsily strung together to sound scary. Still, it's quite apt, since this film from director Al Adamson makes very little sense whatsoever, being the third incarnation of a movie that originally started life as Psycho A-Go-Go in 1965. Not happy with his first cut, Adamson went back to the editing room, adding new footage featuring John Carradine as a mad scientist and releasing it as The Fiend with the Electronic Brain. Still not content, he added more new footage, and gave it the title Blood of Ghastly Horror. No wonder the story is so scrappy.
Carradine plays a mad scientist (for a change), Dr. Vanard, who uses a special electronic implant to repair the damaged brain of Vietnam veteran Joe Corey (Roy Morton), but alters the man's personality in the process. Corey, now a violent psychopath, joins a gang of thieves who rob a jewellery store but lose their haul whilst escaping, the bag of valuables landing on the back of a pickup truck owned by David Clarke (Kirk Duncan). Corey tries to track down the jewels, using whatever means necessary.
Meanwhile Corey's father Elton (Kent Taylor) seeks revenge on Dr. Vanard for his son's condition, using a Haitian zombie named Akro as his instrument of death.
All of this is shoddily thrown together with little concern for narrative cohesion, the resultant mess a colossal bore that gives credence to that old adage 'If at first you don't succeed, just give up'.
Carradine plays a mad scientist (for a change), Dr. Vanard, who uses a special electronic implant to repair the damaged brain of Vietnam veteran Joe Corey (Roy Morton), but alters the man's personality in the process. Corey, now a violent psychopath, joins a gang of thieves who rob a jewellery store but lose their haul whilst escaping, the bag of valuables landing on the back of a pickup truck owned by David Clarke (Kirk Duncan). Corey tries to track down the jewels, using whatever means necessary.
Meanwhile Corey's father Elton (Kent Taylor) seeks revenge on Dr. Vanard for his son's condition, using a Haitian zombie named Akro as his instrument of death.
All of this is shoddily thrown together with little concern for narrative cohesion, the resultant mess a colossal bore that gives credence to that old adage 'If at first you don't succeed, just give up'.