The Kill, AKA, Blood Hunger & Reservoir Cats

The VHS version of the film.

The Kill, AKA, Blood Hunger & Reservoir Cats is an elusive 1968 sexploitation film that only runs for 45 minutes. The movie is written and directed by Gary Graver and there's actually only character with a name (Antoinette, played by Antoinette Maynard) 

 

Now, when they tell you "Don't judge a book by its cover" they certainly mean this rare sixties flick.By the looks of the VHS cover, which features a woman with her throat slit dripping blood(see picture above dummy), plastered in beautiful rental sticker warnings, you would expect this to be a classic crazy 80s slasher. 

I'm your suave detective.

"Here, let me show how it's done"

Being a movie from the 60's this is clearly way too far from resembling an 80's slasher. As a matter of fact this is one of the earliest sexploitation flicks that features a lot of full nudity (you know, titties, ass, bush, pink) for no reason. Also, and for no reason at all, someone unknown to me and most of the world has renamed the film as Reservoir Cats to make you think the film has something to do with Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs film.However, this film has no resemblance to that of Tarantino and it has no resemblance to any decent piece in film making history. Watching Blood Hunger is like watching a collage montage of random scenes that hold little overall integrity. Still, it's fun to watch and I'll tell you why.

Blood Hunger opens with a dead cat on the side of the road for needless shock value (can’t say 100% for sure if it’s real or not, but it looks it). Great start to what I can only assume will be a classic cinematic masterpiece. There’s an overly long car chase that culminates in three men in black (galaxy defenders) beating the shit out of a woman with their fists, then dragging her back to a room with only a mattress and a bunch of film canisters to be raped (likely the director’s actual room, which is sad on so many levels). The sound effects for the punches are hilarious, as they sound like frozen meat is being hit with a stick. The girl’s screams go in and out, don’t match up, and sound like they are meant as score to the film rather than an actual sound effect. The sound of a guy unzipping the zipper on his pants in order to rape this poor woman is priceless (sounded like a bee buzzing in my ear). I cannot get over the effects they settled on. When the guy finished raping the girl there’s a literal lion’s roar and a car crash played. Then the sound of him zipping his fly back up is a creaky old door. I can only assume they had a library of effects to pick from and just tried to use every one of them randomly.

Let me fix yer snatch.

"C'mon! gimme yer love gun stud"

The rape victim goes to hire a private detective to help her catch these bad guys. As if his 40s/50s movie detective-schtick wasn’t obvious enough, they plastered a gigantic poster of Humphrey Bogart on the wall of his “office,” too. She talks to him, but all that comes out is a sped up Alvin and the Chipmunks-like effect over her voice so you can’t hear anything she says. Turns out this rape victim is a nympho who only cares about getting revenge on the guys who raped her and having sex with anything that moves. She bangs the detective and the detective says in his head, while they are both having sex, “I still didn’t trust her, she might be from the phone company.” Huh? Is this humor?

A hunchback/retarded janitor, who, because of his fake hunchback, can’t even button his shirt fully, gets raped by the girl who got raped. She throws him on the detective’s desk while he is gone, has sex with the guy’s hunchback, with the Lone Ranger music playing in the background (actually, it was an advertisement for the Lone Ranger playing), in front of the Humphrey Bogart poster. I could barely believe my eyes but it happened.

"psst, doggy, get me some wiener"

"Oh, hi, fuck me!"

While the detective is investigating, he gets caught by the thugs and gets tied up. Turns out these are heroin dealers headed by a man named Adolf Krueger (lol). He manages to call the rape victim to come save him in a hilarious scene featuring him struggling to get the phone and falling all over the place. She comes over and she has sex with him in the gangs’ room where she was raped… Classic.

There’s another WC Fields-like car chase (ala The Bank Dick) between the gang and the detective/nympho. The whole time this chase is going on she is giving him road head, I think. The scene was so disjointed and crazy that I can’t be 100% sure of anything that happened.

A few random simulated sex scenes followed (including one random death) and then both of the main characters were killed. The end. 

Are my boobs too big?

"Yes, I killed 'em after she swallowed his load"

Overall, a film that is not meant by any means to be a serious action packed thriller. This movie feels a lot like a sexploitation movie which only resides on a little plot to avoid the X rating. An entertainment film that is fun to watch while having a party with your friends. The only problem with it, is that it's nearly impossible to find. There's only a VHS release and that means it is a good time to visit your local thrift stores, flea markets and swap meets of sorts. 

Nevertheless, since it's public domain and nobody, but nobody has any intentions on releasing it on DVD, someone (not me google) posted it on youtube and here it is: