BLOOD MANIA with Robert Vincent O’Neill (Director), Leslie Simms (Actress) and Vicki Peters (Actress). Young doctor Craig Cooper (Peter Carpenter) is assistant to Ridgeley Waterman, head of a Los Angeles hospital. Until the elder man's stroke which keeps him confined to his residence, Cooper has managed to shake off the advances of Victoria, Waterman's daughter. Larry, a friend of Cooper's from college days, blackmails the young medic, threatening exposure of the abortions he performed during his internship. Cheryl, Cooper's longtime amour, plans to try to make a deal with the blackmailer. Victoria, sensing something is wrong, offers to help Cooper, getting the $50,000 he needs. He submits to her offer, and to an affair, not realizing the intensity of her desire for him, nor the dementia towards which she is slipping. The last 15 minutes of Blood Mania are so unexpected, so much of a shocker, you can't miss it! Maria De Aragon, Vicki Peters, Leslie Simms, and Alex Rocco co-stars. Directed by Robert Vincent O'Neill (ANGEL, BALTIMORE BULLET)!

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Audio, likewise, is an improvement with a DTS-HD Master, original, mono track (24-bit). Effects are minimal with very little aggression in the film's soundstage - some hysterics come to mind. There is a score by Don Vincent (Point of Terror), that is fairly unremarkable The sound is, predictably, flat but sounds clean and clear via the lossless. There are optional English subtitles on the region FREE Blu-ray disc.

Most of the extras on this Blu-ray are for Blood Mania with the commentary by Robert Vincent O’Neill (Director), Leslie Simms (Actress) and Vicki Peters (Actress) reminiscing about the production.  There is an 8-minute video interview and introduction to that film with director Robert Vincent O’Neill, plus a 14-minute interview with actress Leslie Simms - she played Nurse Turner in Blood Mania - her first role. There is a theatrical trailer for Point of Terror and TV or Radio spots for both films as well as promotional galleries. The package has reversible cover artwork and the it has a second and third disc DVDs of the two features.

NOTE: Eric tells us: "Disc three (DVD) of BLOOD MANIA/POINT OF TERROR features the TV versions of both. BLOOD MANIA's TV version loses nudity and gore and features several reshoot scenes in which the nurse character is revealed to be in cahoots with the blackmailer. In place of the more graphic footage, she skulks around the house and phones her boyfriend to tell him what is going on. Both characters also have a long flatly-shot introductory sequence inserted before they are actually introduced in the theatrical version. There is also a new scene of Carpenter driving a body to the beach and burying it. POINT OF TERROR loses nudity and some gore but the only differences are a ten minute flashback to Carpenter's youth as a shoeshine boy (also shot some time after the theatrical release) and a nightmare recap inserted at the end."

Blood Mania is actually a worse film than Point of Terror!, but has the same appeal but even a higher preponderance of nudity/sex exploitation... with the title being more of a selling technique than delivery. I get the appeal here... I do - I suggest though that the market for these lower-end 70's efforts is small - hence the 3,000 unit limitation. Those keen are aware of what they are in for. To each his own.