Flesh for the Beast (2003)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

The acting in this movie is really good.

The acting in this movie is really good.

This film gets a bad rap on here, but how bad is a film that's full of wall to wall nudity and gore? Not that bad, I'd say. Fine, it's all cheaply done and mostly involves the characters being seduced and then torn to pieces, but it's a damn sight more interesting than a lot of the crap I've been sitting through recently. A bunch of parapsychologists turn up at a famous haunted house, to do a bit of research. The owner, sinister and suave, offers them loads of cash if they can spend the night in the house and figure out what's going on. Our team of victims, I mean characters, involves three 'experts', two film geeks (one of whom, as per usual, remarks that the house would make a great horror film), and a clairvoyant whose brain damaged expression when she looks at a portrait of the original owner should give you a laugh. Everyone typically splits up and that's when things get interesting. There's some Fulci-style zombies wandering around, but the main focus is on certain ladies our characters encounter. By turns our characters are drawn in by the full frontal nudity and seduction, but one by one find themselves eaten by the girls, who transform into horrible demons. For the most part, this is what the film mainly consists of. Then again, I wasn't really complaining either. Gory deaths aside, there is some semblance of plot and exposition, and a couple of (well telegraphed) twists to boot. The soundtrack, by eccentric guitarist buckethead, is worth noting. Flesh for the Beast might be a cheaply made, badly acted gore fest, but at least it's got a bit of bite, and a distinct lack of smugness that a lot of horror films seem to include ever since Scream was forced upon us.

Flesh for the Beast starts as six parapsychologist's arrive at an old house, an old very large house that belongs to a man named John Stoker (Sergio Jones) who has hired them to investigate the house & record any signs of paranormal activity. Stoker explains that the house used to belong to & was built by a man named Alfred Fischer (Aldo Sambrell) who was into the occult & black magic as well as gambling & prostitutes, rumour has it the house is haunted & Stoker wants any malevolent forces laid to rest once & for all. A psychic named Erin Cooper (Jane Scarlett) has repeated visions which Stoker wants to use for his own sinister motives while the rest of the team split up to search the house & are killed off by zombie ghost prostitutes know as Succubi...Written & directed by Terry West not many people on the IMDb seem to have a good word to say about Flesh for the Beast & to be honest i can see where they are coming from although there were a few aspects of it I did like. A bit, anyway. The actual plot about a team of psychologist's exploring a haunted house & being killed off by zombie prostitutes isn't bad but too many scenes of people walking around dark corridors, repetitive action & twist's that make little sense sink it. The one big question I have is if the amulet thing controlled the Succubi why didn't Stoker use it to, erm, control them before they killed him? wouldn't that have been the logical thing to do? What were those other zombies about then? Why did they just sort of randomly disappear? If the zombie girls were killing the guy's to eat why were most of the bodies untouched? The final twist just doesn't make any sense, why was the 'surprise' Succubus not confined to the house like the other's? What were her motives for going along with Stoker's plans? None it makes a great deal of sense if you actually think about it. At 90 odd minutes it's a little long but there are a few good moments dotted throughout. All in all not as bad as maybe the IMDb comments suggest but still not particularly good, it provides boobs & blood which is all most will expect anyway.As already suggested Flesh for the Beast is nothing more than an excuse to show pretty young women in states of undress & some blood splatter which is the sum total of it's ambition although maybe the script with it's ineffective twist's had slightly loftier goals but what ends up on screen won't impress many. The girls are attractive enough, they all strip at one point or another & that's all that needs to be said really. The gore is alright & there are actually some special effects rather than just blood splashed around, there's a severed arm, someone pukes his guts up, someone is crucified & then torn in two, a throat is slit, the women writhe around in guts & blood while someone else gets an amulet pushed into their skull. The house location is quite good & quite moody but the shot on video presentation hurts the look of the film, it just looks cheap rather than atmospheric like it should.Filmed in Yonkers in New York the production values are low, it looks alright but the makers were obviously working on a tight budget. The acting isn't great, I've seen worse but I've also seen much better. Caroline Munro has a two minute cameo.Flesh for the Beast is a low budget exploitation film that delivers on the blood & boobs but the plot which tries to be too clever for it's own good is far less impressive. I can't recommend Flesh for the Beast but it has a few half decent moments, just not enough to add up to a good film. Followed by The Pick Up (2009) & Flesh for the Beast 2 (2010).

Gore Hounds will love this movie. There is more gore in the first two minutes than almost all of the "video nasties" I have seen to date.A group moves into the house to search for evidence of paranormal activity - or maybe something more.It does get funny at times when four zombies, including scream queen Zoe Moonshine, appear when one of the ghost hunters is stealing some jewelry.But, it was Ketchum (Jim Coope) who got to meet the first succubi - in the flesh - and enjoy some hot sex before he was dispatched rather gruesomely.Oh, what a fantasy! The young girl with her toys is met by another member. Unfortunately, he must have ate something wrong for dinner as he manages to vomit his entire insides. Didn't Fulci do that in some movie? The real reason this group has been hired is becoming apparent, and it all is in the hands, or visions, of Erin (Jennifer Litsch). It is in one of those visions that scream queen Caroline Munro appears.We do get to see Litsch in full bloom as one of the succubi takes her form to dispatch quick draw Monks (David Runco). Then all the succubi (Caroline Hoermann, Ruby Larocca, and Barbara Joyce) dance around and chow down. Yum.There is plenty here for those who love FX, blood and gore and lots of full frontal.A great ending to a story that puts writer/director West in the giallo camp for sure.

watching flesh for the beast is comparable to jumping out of a three story window and suffering no injury. you have no idea how it happened but you know it was incredibly awesome. this movie has everything a horror fan looks for-tons of sweet gore, soft core porn, bad acting, awkward plot, and heavy metal. the original score by buckethead is the component that puts this otherwise great horror flick into legendary status. i also applaud the originality in this film. carnax? carnivore from the nexus? succubines? that's amazing. while i do think this movie may be the greatest thing ever recorded, i do not recommend it to everyone, in fact, only handful of people in world are actually able or worthy to view it. i am just thankful that i am one of those select few.