Most artists say they put their blood into their work. Adam Sorg would rather use yours.
Color Me Blood Red is a 1965 American Splatter Horror film written and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis as the last entry in his "Blood Trilogy" Thematic Series, preceded by Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!
Adam Sorg is an artist with a problem: His paintings aren't selling, and the entire local fine art community ridicules him, both for his desperation and his poor use of color. One day, his girlfriend accidentally cuts herself, getting her blood on a painting. Naturally, the community loves it. Soon, Adam is butchering young people and using their blood as the medium for his artistic endeavors...
This film contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Biology: Adam finds that blood provides the perfect red colour he needs for his artwork, retaining its bright color on canvas just as well as on paint. This completely ignores the fact that blood, if outside a living creature or airtight PVC bag for longer than 50 seconds, quickly oxidizes, drying out and going from a red liquid to a brown flaky powder.
- Beatnik: Jack and Sydney, who dress alike and talk in Totally Radical slang.
- Big Bad: Adam Sorg, our Mad Artist Villain Protagonist.
- Fanservice: Adam's girlfriend, Gigi, spends most of the time wearing revealing swimwears.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: We see one of Adam squeezing blood out of a girl's intestines.
- Hidden Buxom: Sydney originally seems to be a nerdy girl in frumpy clothing... until we see her in a bikini.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Adam is exposed when Rolf talks about a corpse he found in gender-neutral terms, and Adam specifies the corpse being female.
- Leg Focus: Gigi, Adam's girlfriend, spends 90% of her screen time baring her legs.
- Reclusive Artist: In-universe, Adam takes up the life of a hermit after he gets a rush of inspiration from his murders.
- The Sociopath: Adam Sorg, an artist who makes paintings out of his victims' blood.
- Villain Protagonist: We follow Adam Sorg, a Serial Killer who makes paintings with his victims' blood.
