After last week’s review of a summer blockbuster, your portly is undertaking a complete reversal to an obscure horror film. In fact, it’s an obscure Welsh horror film, in the incomprehensible Welsh language, and funded by the short-lived Welsh Film Board. The Welsh Film Board, it seems, was a body dedicated to the revival and preservation of Welsh language—in other words, the preservation of cramming as many consonants together as possible (today, there exists Ffilm Cymru Wales; why is it that every nationalist movement and/or organization in the British Isles is inevitably just woke internationalist globohomo garbage in a language that pre-dates the Roman Empire?).
The film in question is Blood on the Stars (1975), which one reviewer on Letterboxd called “a fever dream.” That is an apt description of this weird little relic of the glorious Welsh 1970s.
The Portly Politico 