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It should have been a pleasure trip to Hawaii, where psychiatrist Jules
(John Hart) planned to marry his young and pretty fiancee Jill (Laurie
Rose), but when it comes to pleasure trips, Jules doesn't seem to be too
good in the planning department ... or why else would he take his
stepdaughter Carol (Mara Modair) along, who is afraid that he would
disinherit her once he's married to Jill and thus makes plans to murder
him (only of a preliminary nature though)? And why would he take one of
his "cases", mentally unstable Amy (Midori) along? Then one of
his crewman disappears (he is murdered, actually, but nobody's aware of
that) ... but luckily, Mason (Jonathan Lippe), a friend of the family,
trained sailor and Vietnam veteran, shows up just in time to take the dead
crewman's place. Once on high sea, it doesn't take long until a crewman
disappears, then another one breaks down dead with a knife in his back
right in Jill's bed. Later, Jules and Mason find Amy all bloodied lying in
her bed, and that should solve the case, right? Wrong of course, as Mason
has previously given Amy heroin, so when the murder happened, she was out.
Eventually though, Amy manages to tell Jules about the heroin, which sheds
a whole light on the whole situation - and suddenly, Mason goes on a
killing spree, slaughtering everyone but Amy, whom he then forcefully
injects heroin before bailing ship. She is later arrested and convicted
for the murders he has convicted, while he lives another day to find work
on another ship ... Blood Voyage is one of these pulpy
low budget grindhouse thrillers that objectively speaking has not all that
much going for it: It's rather blunt in approach, lacks narrative subtlety
or characters with depth, given it's set up as a murder mystery, the
murderer is way too easy to guess and his motives are nothing but
clichées, and too many excuses are found for all the (admittedly very
cute) girls to show their tits. Furthermore, on a directorial level, the
film is nothing more than functional, and it could have done with some
better acting. All that said though, these might be exactly the reasons
why this film is pretty enjoyable for low budget, grindhouse and trash
afficionados. Granted, the film isn't even a masterpiece in that
department, or truly so-bad-it's-good, or especially memorable even ...
but hey, for the roughly 80 minutes, it's at least fun genre entertainment
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