Bloodlust (1992 film)
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Richard Wolstencroft
Richard Wolstencroft
Kelly Chapman
Robert James O'Neill
| Bloodlust | |
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| Directed by | Jon Hewitt Richard Wolstencroft |
| Written by | Jon Hewitt Richard Wolstencroft |
| Produced by | Jon Hewitt |
| Starring | Jane Stuart Wallace Kelly Chapman Robert James O'Neill |
| Cinematography | Gary Ravenscroft |
| Edited by | Jon Hewitt |
| Music by | Ross Hazeldine |
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| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $70,000[1] - $75,000[2][3] |
Bloodlust is a 1992 Australian vampire film directed by Jon Hewitt and Richard Wolstencroft and starring Jane Stuart Wallace, Kelly Chapman and Robert James O'Neill. It debuted at the Fatal Visions Film Festival in Melbourne on 14 March 1992.[1] The producer marketed is as being banned in Britain after their Customs and Excise classified it as obscene, preventing it's importation.[4]
Co-director Jon Hewitt described it as:
A purpose-made, market-driven, crass, exploitation film. It isn't particularly good but, for me, it was really my film school. It's where I taught myself how to make a feature film and made a lot of mistakes on it - but I tried to learn from them. It was a film made in the context of not really being able to get any support for anything I was trying to do, then just going out and making something that I thought would have a back-end market, would be a safe bet, a sort of straight-to-video schlock film.[5]
Filming took six weeks and was very difficult, with one member of the cast being arrested on drug charges. However Hewitt says it proved profitable.[5] Frank Thring and Sheila Florance were signed to appear in the film but due to health issues had to be replaced.[6]
Cast
- Jane Stuart Wallace as Lear
- Kelly Chapman as Frank
- Robert James O'Neill as Tad
- Phil Motherwell as Brother Bem
- Paul Moder as Steig
- James Young as Zeke
- Max Crawdaddy as Deke
- Ian Rilen as Dee
- Colin Savage as Sonny
- Big Bad Ralph as Butch
- Lex Middleton as Brother Bob
- Michael Helms as Brother Thiatus
- Esme Melville as Basket Lady
- Michael Adams as Stoned Hippy
- John Flaus as Mr. Fetish
