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Daniel has been in a car crash that left his best friend dead. Since,
he has been believing that he was a vampire, and has gotten violent on
occasion, too, so much so that he was sent to an asylum to be treated for
his condition - and a few months later he is released healed ... only he
isn't, as when he goes to a movie theatre with his girlfriend Jane (Jane
Clayton) a few days later, he out of the blue strangles another member of
the audience - so much so that he's taken in by the police but released a
short time later since his prank was without serious consequences.
The fact that he repeats this prank though is a bit troubling, so
much so that Jane starts doubting the treatment he received at the asylum
has been any good. She tries to convince Daniel to change doctors, but
eventually is dragged into a car by the asylum's head doctor who tells her
that it's vital for Daniel to overcome his belief to be a vampire to go
all the way in his attempt to become a vampire. Jane understands
and has no more objections to let Daniel visit hypnotists, black
magicians, other so-called vampires and the like. Problem is of course,
the asylum doctor and his assistants are actually Satanists who really
want to make Daniel a vampire - and eventually, Daniel really bites a
woman, a joke store clerk, to death. To demonstrate Daniel's power, the
asylum doctor now helps the police setting up a trap for Daniel at a
costume ball - which Daniel manages to enter unrecognized, until he
suddenly starts biting people left and right, indiscriminatingly. Only
eventually, the police strike, if much too late, and they chase Daniel
over the rooftops until the sun comes up ... and kills him. The
Sadist with Red Teeth is quite certainly not a great film, but at
least an interesting one, as it marries its trashy plot with elements of
experimental, verité and nouvelle vague style cinema on an ultra-low
budget, and the outcome is a refreshingly weird piece of Euro horror,
1970's style. Not great, but amusing still (and for a change, at times
intentionally amusing as well).
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