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Summary: A typically charming H.G. Lewis gem
Review: Just about every gorehound and exploitation film buff knows about this one because it's considered by many as the first gore movie ever made (it was actually FIEND WITHOUT A FACE which started it all but don't let that get to you). Advertising salesman and english professer, Herschell Gordon Lewis directed Playboy-playmate, Connie Stevens (despite her good looks she's a REALLY bad actress) as a bimbo-ish history student who shows a lot of intrest in Ancient Egyptian history. Connie's birthday is coming up soon and her mum wants to suprise her with an Egyptian meal. She go's down to the store and asks the sinister shop-owner (who trys his best to put on a Bela Lugosi-type voice) what he can do. To prepare the feast the shop-owner has to go around dismembering young girls. My favourite scene involves a teenager crying his heart out after his girlfriend gets it from the shop-owner: his crying is so fake that your pants will be dripping after the film is over. This was a drive-in killer, by the way and usually played in a double-bill with H.G. Lewis's 2000 MANIACS. Look out for some other great H.G. Lewis titles such as SCUM OF THE EARTH, COLOR ME BLOOD RED, THE GRUSOME TWOSOME, A TASTE OF BLOOD and THE GORE-GORE GIRLS which are all avalible on Something Weird.
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Summary: UTTERLY FABULOUS
Review: One of HG's best films. Next to Gore-Gore Girls my all time favorite. The "Horrible old man with wild eyes" is enough to make anyone pee their pants with laughter. Not to mention the bubble gum filled with blood. This is concidered by many to be the first "Gore" film ever made. Also reccomended - "Gruesome Twosome" and "Something Weird". HG Lewis ..... the Wizard of Gore.
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Summary: Manos, hands of fate or Blood Feast... hmm...
Review: Pardon the header... just trying to decide which would be the all-time worst film I've seen. Now, just because I rate a movie with one star doesn't mean it has no value whatsoever. I actually had a good time laughing at it (considerably more fun than Manos). The dialogue and performances are hands-down the worst you will ever see, and the soundtrack is either cheesy organ music or slow, methodical drum-banging. You would think it's all intentionally bad, but I'm not so sure... fun slice of ineptitude from the early 60s.
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Summary: The Blood Trilogy
Review: Starring: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton, Candi Conder, Elyn Warner Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Herschell Gordon Lewis' pioneering gore films in deluxe Special Editions. Blood Feast (1963, 67 minutes) Mrs. Fremont hires crackpot Egyptian cultist Fuad Ramses to cater a party - and he prepares a Blood Feast made from the grisly body parts of nubile young women. The world's first gore film! Two Thousand Maniacs (1964, 87 minutes) The 2000 Maniacs of a small Southern town celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Civil War by forcing a handful of Northerners to serve as guests in their macabre, blood-crazed fun and games. Color Me Blood Red (1965, 79 minutes) When his girlfriend, Gigi, cuts her finger on a frame, maniacal artist Adam Sorg discovers a new shade of crimson that will make his artwork so special - human blood! Please Note: Three-Disc Set. Additional information Copyright: Image Entertainment Special Features: Audio Commentary, Interactive Menus, Photo Gallery, Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access, Outtakes Video Format: Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] Audio Tracks: English: Dolby Digital Mono # Discs: 3 Layers: Single # Sides: One running time of 233 minutes.
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Summary: Everything bad means everything's great
Review: These movies are definitely an acquired taste, but love him or hate him, you have to respect a man like Herschell Gordon Lewis. He is a filmmaker truly dedicated to his vision, and thanks to producer David Friedman, made movies that were definitely stepping stones in the future development of horror. The gore on films like Night of the Living Dead probably wouldn't have been made if not for the success of these low-budget terrors. To him, I give my props.
Blood Feast: 4/5 stars
Two Thousand Maniacs: 5/5 stars
Color Me Blood Red: 2/5 stars Bad and good, it's entertaining all the way through. Recommended for fans of b-movies or students of horror interested in seeing the real origins of gore.
Rating:
Summary: Everything bad means everything's great
Review: These movies are definitely an acquired taste, but love him or hate him, you have to respect a man like Herschell Gordon Lewis. He is a filmmaker truly dedicated to his vision, and thanks to producer David Friedman, made movies that were definitely stepping stones in the future development of horror. The gore on films like Night of the Living Dead probably wouldn't have been made if not for the success of these low-budget terrors. To him, I give my props.
Blood Feast: 4/5 stars
Two Thousand Maniacs: 5/5 stars
Color Me Blood Red: 2/5 stars Bad and good, it's entertaining all the way through. Recommended for fans of b-movies or students of horror interested in seeing the real origins of gore.
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Summary: Beyond Gruesome
Review: This film is a bit of a disappointment. Despite a fair amount of unintentional humor (some examples of which are truly hysterical) the relentlessly graphic misogynistic death scenes make the film more disgusting than entertaining. A subtitle to the film could be MORONS WITH CAMERAS as it is ultimately a profoundly stupid, infantile film. It's definitely worth a look at least for shock value but isn't the romp many would have you believe. Jackie Kong's spoof of BLOOD FEAST, BLOOD DINER, is a much better bet if you are looking for fun gory psychotronic entertainment. Best scene in BLOOD FEAST: Ramses trying to decapitate the ugly Suzette.
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Summary: Classic Gore
Review: This is one of my favorite films, and it is finally on DVD. The picture is great, the sound is good, and the extras are very nice (50 freakin minutes of out takes can be too much of a good thing). My favorite thing about this disc is the commentary, which is one of the best I have heard on any DVD. The stories behind this movie are very fascinating, and that makes this release a must own for fans of the genre.
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Summary: Good late night movie.
Review: This is pure drive in stuff, but it is great fun. Considering the fact that this is one of the first gore exploitation films, we can excuse some of the crudities - but some, no. The acting is crappy, the "special" effects are horrible, and the chicks are butt ugly. But that adds to the charm of it. Great fun!
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Summary: THE LEGACY OF ED WOOD
Review: This is the first movie of director Herschell Gordon Lewis I have the opportunity to see. And I am disappointed. But it's clearly my fault. For years I've read the name of this director in horror movies dictionaries or encyclopaedias and I've begun slowly to believe he was a forgotten unknown genius. So BLOOD FEAST is an exploitation movie destined for the 1963 american teenagers. Hence, the numerous close shots of the legs and the bosoms of charming young women during the movie and the sadism of the murder scenes. Apart from this sociological point of view, BLOOD FEAST, in my opinion, doesn't deserve more attention. Mal Arnold plays the character of Fuad Ramsès, the psycho-killer ; you won't have any difficulty to recognize him, he's the one with the dark blue hair. He is a vague cousin of german director Fritz Lang's Dr Mabuse. In fact, if you watch BLOOD FEAST without sound and in black & white, the film could possibly be mistaken with a 1925 horror movie. Furthermore, there are only one or two camera movements in BLOOD FEAST, the musical score (is it music, anyway ?) is omnipresent and the actors and the dialogs are so ridiculously bad that you surely won't feel guilty if you do so. A DVD for the curious ones.
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