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| 3 | ''Blood Freak'' is a 1972 American horror film directed by Brad F. Ginter and starring Steve Hawkes, Dana Cullivan, Heather Hughes, and Bob Currier. The plot concerns a [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]] veteran named Herschel (Hawkes) who is introduced to marijuana by a young woman named Angel (Hughes), before finding work as a taste tester at a local turkey farm where scientists are treating the meat with experimental hormones. The hormones in the meat react with the drugs in Herschel's bloodstream to transform him into a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampiric]] [[BirdPeople bird-man]] feeding on the blood of drug addicts. |
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| 7 | !! This film provides examples of the following tropes: |
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| 9 | * AllJustADream: [[spoiler:The entire sequence of events involving Herschel's transformation into a vampiric bird-man turns out to be merely a hallucination intended to show him the error of his drug-using ways.]] |
| 10 | * AnArmAndALeg: Herschel chops the left leg off of one of his victims with a table saw and drinks his blood. |
| 11 | * BirdPeople: Herschel is transformed into a monster with a turkey head and claws on a human body. |
| 12 | * DrugsAreBad: The moment Herschel tries weed, he's instantly hooked. Later, the combination of drugs and experimental hormones turns him into a monster who can only get high by drinking the blood of other drug users. |
| 13 | * {{Gorn}}: A lot of the kills are quite visceral and explicit despite the low budget. |
| 14 | * HeelFaithTurn: [[spoiler:In the end, a reformed Herschel is saved by his faith in Christ.]] |
| 15 | * NightmareFace: There are a few moments where Herschel manages to be quite terrifying with just an angry facial expression alone. |
| 16 | * OurVampiresAreDifferent: This one not only has a turkey's head in place of the original but can only consume the blood of drug addicts. |
| 17 | * SlashedThroat: Herschel hangs a woman upside down, slits her throat, and cups his hands beneath her to drink her blood. |
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