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Blood, Boobs and Beast
John Paul Kinhart2007
Categories:Documentary, Feature, Guest in Attendance, Horror, Sci-Fi
I mean this: no low-budget genre filmmaker deserves your respect more than Don Dohler. A criminally unsung hero of the video generation, the Baltimore gore auteur created the most ambitious and dazzling shoestring productions ever seen...though they mostly found their audience among 4:00 AM uhf station viewers and Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans.
BLOOD, BOOBS AND BEAST tells the compelling story of Dohler, whose movies have been called everything from oddly brilliant to some of the worst films of all time. Despite his critics, Dohler has gotten all 9 of his sci-fi and horror films distributed internationally, as well as TV syndication for his first (and some say greatest) work, THE ALIEN FACTOR. Dohler has also inspired artists and filmmakers such as Robert Crumb, J.J. Abrams (Creator of TV show Lost) and Art Speigelman (Maus) with his underground comix character ProJunior and his DIY filmmaking magazine Cinemagic.
Mild-mannered and self-deprecating, Dohler started making wholesome sci-fi films in the Baltimore area in 1976, but later began including nudity and gore in his movies to please distributors. The documentary finds him at age 59, as he's just finished his most gratuitous movie to date. It's selling well, yet Dohler feels "sick of the exploitative stuff" and is considering giving up the Blood, Boobs and Beast formula. However, Dohler's recent partner Joe Ripple disagrees and views these components as essential to gaining distribution. The pair's differing views create a hypnotic tension while reinforcing Dohler's humble maverick stance of quality before marketability.
Shot and edited over two and a half years, BLOOD, BOOBS AND BEAST provides a fresh and humorous look at low-budget filmmaking through the unassuming eyes of Don Dohler. With revealing interviews and beautiful cinematography, this is a touching portrait of Dohler's career, his family, and his struggle to just make a good movie, dammit.
"Rarely does a documentary on ANY subject work this well, but somehow this chronicle of a struggling, unrecognized, self-effacing genius hits just right at every turn, finally shedding light on someone who championed originality throughout a nearly invisible thirty-year career. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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This film was revelatory. Perhaps nobody cares anymore but the popularity of sci-fi and horror movies in the U.S. were really the result of a kind of a 80's underground DIY ethic, which was perfectly embodied in a person like Don Dohler. Blood, Boobs, and Beast is not only about a lost era of DIY art and filmmaking but a great person who tried to live out his dreams and ambitions despite the indifference of others.
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