Blood Harvest (1987) **1/2

Blood Harvest (1987) is a ploddingly paced, laughably rote and predictable, excruciatingly awkward, and disturbingly sleazy regional horror film from Wisconsin. Tiny Tim does some good, creepy work here in the vein of Joe Spinell à la Maniac (1980) (review) but lead actress Itonia Salchek's (who never appeared in a single other thing) performance is lacking and her character is insipidly stupid. Director Bill Rebane lingers a lot on Salchek's frequently nude body and it's one of the main contributing factors to the aforementioned awkwardness. Peter Krause—of TV's Six Feet Under (2001–2005) fame—appears in his feature film debut as well (I didn't even realize it was him until I looked it up after watching the film). There are a few decent gore gags but nothing to write home about. Still, BH is a compulsively watchable, at times hilarious, little flick (though I think the alternate title The Marvelous Mervo is more fun).