Blood Frenzy

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Blood Frenzy
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Directed by Hal Freeman
Screenplay byTed Newsom
Story by Ray Dennis Steckler
Starring Lisa Loring
Distributed byHollywood Family Video
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000 [1]

Blood Frenzy is a 1987 American slasher film directed by Hal Freeman, and starring Lisa Loring amongst others.

Contents

Premise

A psychiatrist takes a group of her patients out into the desert for a therapy session. They are stalked by a killer.

Cast

Production

The film was based on a script by Ray Dennis Steckler called Warning - No Trespassing. Ted Newsom was hired to rewrite by Hal Freeman, who had made a lot of money making pornographic films and wanted to expand into other genres. Newsom made the script a cross between Ten Little Indians and Friday the 13th . He says Freeman financed the film entirely himself. [1]

Newsom wrote the film to be shot half on location and half in a studio but it ended up being shot entirely on location over two weeks. The film unit was based out of Barstow in California. [1]

Release and canceled sequel

The film was released on video.

Newsom wrote a follow-up for Freeman called Judgment Night about a convicted murderer who escapes prison and seeks revenge. Freeman died before it was made. [1]

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