Blood Dolls – Full Moon Features (Blu-ray)

Release Date: USA, 1999
Director: Charles Band
Writer: Charles Band
Cast: Kristopher Logan, Debra Mayer, William Paul Burns, Warren Draper, Nicholas Worth, Jodie Fisher, Phil Fondacaro

Release Date: August 12th, 2025
Approximate Running Time: 85 Minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen / 1080 Progressive / MPEG-4 AVC
Rating: R
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH
Region Coding: Region Free
Retail Price: $24.95

"Follow the weird adventures of wealthy, warped lunatic Virgil Travis, an eccentric billionaire whose bizarre mask conceals a deadly secret. To satisfy his insatiable kinks, Virgil kidnaps an all-girl rock band and creates a trio of killer dolls (the titular "blood dolls") to enact violent vengeance on his enemies. As the volume turns up, the bodies pile up and the girls strip down; Virgil's dastardly lusts lead to a shocking grand finale." - synopsis provided by the distributor

Video: 3.5/5

Here’s the information provided about this release's transfer, "remastered in HD."

Blood Dolls comes on a 25 GB single layer Blu-ray.

Disc Size: 21.4 GB

Feature: 16.5 GB

This is one of Full Moon’s stronger transfers; flesh tones look healthy, colors look correct, image clarity and black levels are strong, and there are no issues with compression.

Audio: 3.75/5 (Dolby Digital Stereo English), 3.5/5 (Dolby Digital 5.1 English)

This release comes with two audio options, a Dolby Digital stereo mix in English and a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix in English. Both audio tracks sound clean, clear, balanced, and robust when they should.

Extras:

Extras for this release include Blood Dolls original trailer (2 minutes 7 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), a blooper reel (2 minutes 22 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), a music video titled Pain (4 minutes 8 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), Videozone - Behind the Scenes of Blood Dolls (26 minutes 23 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles), and a promo for Blood Dolls titled Holyweird directed by Penelope Spheeris (5 minutes 52 seconds, Dolby Digital stereo English, no subtitles).

Other extras include trailers for Deathstreamer, Quadrant, Bad Channels, Subspecies 5, Bad CGI Gator, and Crash and Burn.

Summary:

Charles Band, the man behind Full Moon, wrote and directed Blood Dolls. Other notable films he directed are Parasite, Trancers, Crash and Burn, and Meridian.

An eccentric billionaire, whose abnormally large head results from experiments conducted by his mother during his childhood, employs the same procedures she used on him to create living dolls that exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Charles Band is well-known for his work in the realm of killer doll and toy movies. His companies have produced titles like Dolls, Demonic Toys, and Puppet Master. While Blood Dolls shares similarities with these films, it ultimately fails to capture the elements that made them enjoyable and worth revisiting.

Anyone seeking impressive performances should look elsewhere; the true highlights of Blood Dolls are the trio of menacing killer dolls. The special effects are practical, with no CGI, and they hold up really well. The kills are gory and overflowing with blood.

Though the narrative is by-the-numbers stalk-and-kill horror, it does a good job balancing carnage and moments of exposition. For whatever reason, there are two endings, which play consecutively. The first of these is substantially better, and things should have really ended there. Ultimately, Blood Dolls brings nothing new to the table and is only recommended for fans of Full Moon and their brand of cinema.

Full Moon Features Blood Dolls Blu-ray release comes with a strong audio/video presentation and a pair of entertaining extras.

Written by Michael Den Boer