Late Shift at the Grindhouse - Wednesdays get weird when Late Shift hosts
Ross Meyer, Joe Derderian and Aaron Holmgren dig up low-budget b-movies, horror
and gore-fests, and camp classics for your viewing pleasure. Buy your ticket
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curated by Ross with cheap swag and prize giveaways!
The Thirsty Dead
a.k.a. The Blood Cult of
Shangri-La
A sinister cult kidnaps
beautiful women to use in their ghastly blood rites.
"If
you’re up for a visually appealing look at the jungles of Manila, then The Thirsty Dead is for
you." - Joseph A. Ziemba, BleedingSkull.com
"A delectably over-the-top level of
dialog, which has to be heard, to be believed." - John Beutler, Cinema
Head Cheese
"It’s about as camp as a movie can possibly
be. The costumes are classics 70s kitsch." - Cult Movie Reviews
They need a special liquid to stay young. It's red, thick
and warm!
A stewardess and a go-go dancer are just two of the young women
brazenly kidnapped off the streets of Manilla, hustled through underground
sewers and taken to the jungle caves of The Thirsty Dead. Ruled by a
500-year-old disembodied-head-in-a-box and a dragon-lady high priestess, the
"dead" are actually a cult of immortals who can live forever by
dining on blood. But when the stewardess is chosen to be one of them, she
instead decides to escape with the help of a love-starved blood-drinker named
Baru (who looks like a cross between a seventies swinger and a Mexican
vampire). Trouble is, the farther from the cave they get, the more Baru
starts to age, and quickly turns into a prune... imagine Lost Horizon done as a Filipino horror film, and
you'll have some idea of The Thirsty Dead's utterly loopy charms...
courtesy
of Something Weird Video