Blood Rage (1987) KILL COUNT

Blood Rage (1987) KILL COUNT is the one hundred and tenth video of James A. Janisse's series, The Kill Count

## Overview

Todd and Terry are identical twins. One night at a drive-in theater in 1974, young Terry sees his mother Maddy and her date begin kissing inside the car. Upset that his mother is "back at it again", he wakes his brother and they sneak out of the car. Apparently triggered by his mother's promiscuity, Terry takes a hatchet and murders a teenager having sex with his girlfriend in the backseat of their car, then frames Todd by smearing blood onto him and placing the hatchet into his hand. Todd, too traumatized to speak in his own defense, is found guilty and committed to an asylum.

Ten years later, in 1984, a now-adult Terry lives happily with his mother in a sprawling but secluded apartment complex named Shadow Woods. On Thanksgiving Day, Terry's long dormant murderous rage is revived when his mother gets engaged to her fiancé Brad, who owns the complex. Terry also learns that twin brother Todd, whom he framed for murder a decade earlier, has escaped from his mental hospital and may be heading home. Terry murders Brad by chopping his right hand off with a machete before splitting his head. He plans on again framing twin brother Todd.

Dr. Berman and her assistant Jackie arrive at Shadow Woods in search of Todd. Terry greets Jackie before murdering him with his machete, and soon after cuts Dr. Berman in half with the machete in the woods. He discards his bloody T-shirt and changes into a vest. He then visits his neighbor Andrea, who is babysitting. Andrea attempts to seduce Terry but he seems uninterested, before her mother Julie and her date Bill arrive home. Meanwhile, Terry's friend Karen bumps into Todd, who has arrived at Shadow Woods, and she believes he is Terry. When Todd reveals his true identity, she flees to tell her friends. She also tells Terry, who immediately disappears into the night in search of his twin brother, while Karen and her friends Gregg and Artie to go to Andrea's house to party.

Upon learning that son Todd has returned to Shadow Woods, Maddy begins to panic and drink heavily. Todd comes across Dr. Berman's body and becomes emotional. He takes Dr. Berman's gun and goes off in search of his mass murdering twin brother. Back at Andrea's, Bill has been decapitated by Terry, who then stabs Julie to death. Terry spies on Gregg and Andrea playing tennis, before he murders both of them by the swimming pool. Artie finds the bodies of Gregg and Andrea, before being held at gunpoint by Todd, who tries to convince him that it is not him but actually his brother Terry who is murdering everyone. Todd flees when Terry sees him, leaving Artie with Terry. As Artie and Terry search for Todd, Artie is suddenly stabbed in the neck with a carving fork.

Karen soon discovers the truth about Terry and Todd, and Terry chases her around Shadow Woods to kill her. Karen flees to Julie's house and discovers her dead body, and takes the baby with her. After a very drunk Maddy contacts the police, she finds Terry's bloodied T-shirt in the garbage bin before making the horrifying discovery of Brad's body with his head split open. At the swimming pool, Terry has found Karen with the baby. Todd arrives and fights his brother inside the pool. As Todd is pulled out of the pool by Karen, Maddy appears and shoots Terry, killing him. She thinks she has killed Todd, not Terry. Upon realizing that she has killed Terry and not Todd, she becomes distraught, while Karen flees with the baby.

As the film concludes, a hysterical Maddy commits suicide by shooting herself in the head while Todd watches. Police sirens are heard in the distance, while Todd's fate is left unknown.

## Deaths

### Counted Deaths

1. Trojan Fan - Hacked 7x in the face w/ hatchet - 5 mins in
2. Brad - Hand cut off, head split in half w/ machete - 21 mins in
3. Jackie - Stabbed through gut w/ machete - 23 mins in
4. Dr. Berman - Somehow cut in half at waist w/ machete - 25 mins in
5. Bill - Decapitated offscreen - 42 mins in
6. Gregg - Slashed and killed w/ machete - 54 mins in
7. Andrea - Slashed and killed w/ machete - 54 mins in
8. Artie - Stabbed in neck w/ carving fork - 1 hr in
9. Julie - Found stabbed in chest w/ machete - 1 hr 5 mins in
10. Terry - Shot at least 4x by Maddy, drowned? - 1 hr 13 mins in
11. Maddy - Self inflicted gunshot to the head - 1 hr 16 mins in

## Trivia

* This is the first renamed film on the Kill Count.
* This is the ninth Kill Count to have a different thumbnail for the explicit version. The others being Saw III , Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009), and The Evil Dead.
* This is the second time James accidentally said “….let’s get to the kill” instead of “….let’s get to the numbers” in the numbers segment, the others being Child's Play and American Psycho.