Blood Bath

Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by O’Bannon and John Carpenter — including their very first pairing in 1968, Good Morning Dan! BLOOD BATH (1969, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. THE DEMON (1970, written and directed by Charles Adair) B/W (original 16mm) 19 min. GOOD MORNING DAN (1968, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon, camera by John Carpenter) Color (original 8mm) 19 min. CAPTAIN VOYEUR (1969, written and directed by John Carpenter) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. BLOOD BATH (1976, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) Red tint (original 16mm blown up to 35mm) 8 min. JUDSON'S RELEASE (1971, written by Alec Lorimore, directed by Terence H. Winkless) (original 16mm) Color 15 min. Total program time: 80 minutes.

Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials.

When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucy, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.

Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years.