A couple of cops are called in to investigate some strange goings-on at a local film studio. Apparently, the films they make are just as bad as the film they're in: They feature bad acting, light bondage, and swordplay. (A little something for everyone.) This came in a two-disc, four-movie set called TOO HOT FOR HELL. With a name like BLOODBATH, one might expect a slasher film with a generous helping of gore. Instead, we get something that vaguely resembles a bad marriage of HIGHLANDER and THE X-FILES. (And most of the blood is literally in a bath.) Co-director Dan Speaker adds some badly needed energy when he shows up as special FBI agent Max Zedron--in fact, the action threatens to pick up for a few minutes--but this is a real mishmash of wildly incongruous tones and a skeleton of a plot on which to hang a few well-choreographed sword-fights. There are elements of horror, cop drama, camp, S&M, soft porn, and vampirism, but co-writers Speaker and Dana Fredsti don't really commit to any of them. There is one scene that says it all about this "film" (shot with videotape): In the movie-within-the-movie, two of the actors deliberately act badly; Unfortunately, the rest of the cast must be method actors, because the two seconds of "bad acting" is better than the generally bad acting in the rest of the film. In fact, the movie-within-the-movie would have probably been more interesting to watch.