Blood Song | 1982 | USA | Alan Levi

One of the more unknown slasher pictures, Alan Levi’s Blood Song is a fairly generic but nevertheless memorable stalk ‘n’ slash exercise which follows Paul Farley, a disturbed young man (played by heartthrob Frankie Avalon) who witnesses his father kill his wife and lover before killing himself. With only a carved wooden flute to remember his appalling childhood, Paul breaks out of a mental institution as an adult and begins to slaughter all those who criticise the sound of his flute-playing. A young lady called Marion, who received a blood transfusion from Farley when younger, begins to have psychic visions of the killer’s acts which puts her in the firing line when he begins to stalk her too. There’s nothing particularly grim or nasty about Blood Song, leading to the idea that the DPP was just unimpressed that it was another slasher flick from IFS, who’d already got in trouble for Night of the Bloody Apes and Night of the Demon.