Not as bad as it could've been, but inept even so, Hemoglobin aka Bleeders regards a race of hideously deformed hermaphroditic dwarves descended from an incestuous Dutch family. Their tribe dwells in caverns beneath an island off the coast of Maine. By nature they burrow into the local graveyard for food.
An orphan (Roy Dubois), cast out from the hidden tribe as an infant because he was "normal" & good-looking, & raised in Europe, later in his life fell ill with the congenital desire to eat corpses drenched in formeldehyde, hence seeks out his lost heritage.
The dwarf make-up appears to have required double-amputees & is quite remarkable. Some of the actors can even act, but the script is so inconsistent & each character in turn given so little to perform, it's ultimately wasted effort on their part.
Rutger Hauer is the island physician with nothing much to do in the story. Even more wasted is Leni Parker (who brilliantly defined the behavior of Taelons on the television program Earth, Final Conflict); she somehow does a bang-up job in a thankless two minute role as wide-eyed island crazy.
Hemoglobin is a rare case of a film within which even the worst member of the cast was way more talented than director or scriptwriter.
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