Blu-ray Review – Blood Harvest

A fright film doesn't need much more than the simple image of Tiny Tim in clown make-up staring into the camera, but director Bill Rebane ("The Giant Spider Invasion") thinks he can do better in 1987's "Blood Harvest," which has the distinction of being an offering of regional horror from Wisconsin, combining slasher entanglements with farmland events. Representing Tiny Tim's lone starring vehicle, "Blood Harvest" has the challenge of finding things stranger than the actor, who portrays a broken man obsessed with the circus, giving the "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" singer a chance to display more than just his famous falsetto (although that appears as well). Rebane has the vision for a proper genre offering, even giving the material an appealingly remote location, but his execution fails to congeal, often so consumed with exploitation interests, he forgets to make the movie scary, or at least menacing enough to give viewers a reasonable jolt. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com