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Blood Sucking Freaks is a 1976 horror film, sometimes considered a horror-comedy.

Shot under the title "Sardu: Master of the Screaming Virgins", it was retitled "The Incredible Torture Show" during its original theatrical run. Troma retitled the film "Blood Sucking Freaks" upon their aquisition of it.

It was featured in the 2004 documentary The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made.

Controversial and violent; the group Women Against Pornography convinced the MPAA to refuse to rate Blood Sucking Freaks. It was later cut to receive an R-rating but distributor Troma Entertainment decided to slip the original unrated cut to theaters as if it was the R-rated version. When the MPAA discovered this they sued for misuse of their rated R trademark.

The plot centers around an S&M theatre run by Master Sardu and his little person assistant, Ralphus. What neither the audiences nor the critics who loathe Sardu's shows of staged torture know is that the shows are not staged; the naked women who appear to be tortured, dismembered and even killed during the performances are not actresses but kidnapped and conditioned slaves.

One critic in particular, Creasy Silo, incurs Sardu's wrath by mocking his pretensions of art. Sardu responds by kidnapping Silo to be tortured, and kidnapping ballerina Natasha DeNatalie to bring an increased level of artistic talent to his shows. This leads to the second major plotline of the film, in which Natasha's football-player boyfriend Tom Maverick and corrupt policeman Detective Tucci try to find Natasha and unravel the mystery of Sardu's operation.

Though many have criticized writer/director Joel M. Reed for the depravity of the film, the impetus for the film came not from any interest of his own in sadomasochism, but from the fact that patrons of an actual S&M theatre were expressing interest in putting up funding for such a film.

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