Blood Feast

Rating:
Summary: OK
Review: This movie was pretty awful yet the meat cleaver and butcher weer tottaly awesome!

Rating:
Summary: HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN EGYPTIAN FEAST??
Review: Unleashed in drive-in theaters back in 1963, H.G. Lewis's "Blood Feast" shocked and revolutionized the horror genre. Clearly an exploitation film, it was the first to make stomach-churning gore the main attraction. Of course, the effects are cheesy by today's standards. The blood itself looks too much like acrylic paint, and the mutilated tissue was generously piled on top of the skin. Also, while the low-budget plotline is grossly predictable, the soap opera acting is both dreadful and hysterical. Nevertheless, "Blood Feast" is a delectable cult masterpiece of camp. It allowed Lewis to freely assemble a series of twisted slasher flicks, including "Two Thousand Maniacs!," "The Wizard of Gore," and "The Gore Gore Girls."
Actor Mal Arnold plays Fuad Ramses, a diabolical serial killer who runs an exotic catering shop and publishes a book titled "Ancient Weird Religious Rites." Spewing forth his dialogue, he sports a black mortician's suit and a fake pair of blue-grey eyebrows. In addition, he owns a secret hideout where he worships the statue of Ishtar, Egypt's Mother of the Dark Sun. (Actually, she's nothing more than a department store mannequin painted in gold and cheaply draped in blue fabric!) Then, when Dorothy Freemont asks Fuad to prepare a dinner party for her daughter Suzette (Playboy's Connie Mason), he decides to concoct an authentic feast for the goddess. Simmering in a cauldron is a butcher's buffet of body parts that will supposedly resurrect Ishtar from her tomb. Meanwhile, a homicide detective named Pete (William Kerwin) and the Bureau's Chief Frank (Scott Hall) are busy investigating the many grusome murders that plague the city. Both of these actors can be quite dull, since they are not given that much to do in the film. In fact, if you look at Hall carefully, you will realize that he's reading his own lines off the palm of his hand! Anyway, Pete and Frank are frustrated because the perpetrator seems to disappear without a trace, not leaving even one fingerprint behind. Can anybody guess who the killer is? You guessed it! It's none other than Ramses himself!
Walking in broad daylight with an obvious limp, he stalks scantily clad women and cuts them down to size with a machete (a weapon that was later borrowed by Jason Voorhees in the "Friday the 13th" franchise!). Before the opening credits even appear, Ramses attacks a beautiful blond soaking in a bathtub. After stabbing her in the eye socket, he carves off the shin of her leg, allowing the bone to protrude from her thigh! Then, he enters an empty beach and extracts the brains of a bikini girl named Marcy. Much later on, Ramses manages to get his third victim in a cheap motel room. Holding her down on the bed, he rips out the shrieking woman's tongue with his bare hands! Last but not least, as he puts the finishing touches on the blood feast, he kidnaps Truly Sanders, Suzette's best friend. After chaining her to the dungeon wall, Ramses flogs her to death in an act of sadomasochistic torture. I don't want to reveal the graphic ending of this movie, but let's just say that poor Ramses is chased by the law and is taken out with the trash.
What is most entertaining about "Blood Feast" is how the Egyptian legend is revealed through a history lesson attended by Pete and Suzette. 5,000 years ago, Ishtar was a deity whose love is steeped in violence and suffering. In the beginning of spring, when the Nile river gave life to the land, the people visited the goddess's temple and indulged in 6 full days of wild orgies. Then, on the 7th day, 20 virgins were sacrificed on the altar. Their blood was collected in silver bowls and fresh organs were cooked and eaten by the crowd.
I encourage you freaks and lunatics to try "Blood Feast" at least once. Although it's not the best one directed by Lewis, it's certainly not the worst work either. If you are too intimidated by how I described this movie, then I suggest you have hamburgers for dinner instead.

Rating:
Summary: HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN EGYPTIAN FEAST??
Review: Unleashed in drive-in theaters back in 1963, H.G. Lewis's "Blood Feast" shocked and revolutionized the horror genre. Clearly an exploitation film, it was the first to make stomach-churning gore the main attraction. Of course, the effects are cheesy by today's standards. The blood itself looks too much like acrylic paint, and the mutilated tissue was generously piled on top of the skin. Also, while the low-budget plotline is grossly predictable, the soap opera acting is both dreadful and hysterical. Nevertheless, "Blood Feast" is a delectable cult masterpiece of camp. It allowed Lewis to freely assemble a series of twisted slasher flicks, including "Two Thousand Maniacs!," "The Wizard of Gore," and "The Gore Gore Girls."
Actor Mal Arnold plays Fuad Ramses, a diabolical serial killer who runs an exotic catering shop and publishes a book titled "Ancient Weird Religious Rites." Spewing forth his dialogue, he sports a black mortician's suit and a fake pair of blue-grey eyebrows. In addition, he owns a secret hideout where he worships the statue of Ishtar, Egypt's Mother of the Dark Sun. (Actually, she's nothing more than a department store mannequin painted in gold and cheaply draped in blue fabric!) Then, when Dorothy Freemont asks Fuad to prepare a dinner party for her daughter Suzette (Playboy's Connie Mason), he decides to concoct an authentic feast for the goddess. Simmering in a cauldron is a butcher's buffet of body parts that will supposedly resurrect Ishtar from her tomb. Meanwhile, a homicide detective named Pete (William Kerwin) and the Bureau's Chief Frank (Scott Hall) are busy investigating the many grusome murders that plague the city. Both of these actors can be quite dull, since they are not given that much to do in the film. In fact, if you look at Hall carefully, you will realize that he's reading his own lines off the palm of his hand! Anyway, Pete and Frank are frustrated because the perpetrator seems to disappear without a trace, not leaving even one fingerprint behind. Can anybody guess who the killer is? You guessed it! It's none other than Ramses himself!
Walking in broad daylight with an obvious limp, he stalks scantily clad women and cuts them down to size with a machete (a weapon that was later borrowed by Jason Voorhees in the "Friday the 13th" franchise!). Before the opening credits even appear, Ramses attacks a beautiful blond soaking in a bathtub. After stabbing her in the eye socket, he carves off the shin of her leg, allowing the bone to protrude from her thigh! Then, he enters an empty beach and extracts the brains of a bikini girl named Marcy. Much later on, Ramses manages to get his third victim in a cheap motel room. Holding her down on the bed, he rips out the shrieking woman's tongue with his bare hands! Last but not least, as he puts the finishing touches on the blood feast, he kidnaps Truly Sanders, Suzette's best friend. After chaining her to the dungeon wall, Ramses flogs her to death in an act of sadomasochistic torture. I don't want to reveal the graphic ending of this movie, but let's just say that poor Ramses is chased by the law and is taken out with the trash.
What is most entertaining about "Blood Feast" is how the Egyptian legend is revealed through a history lesson attended by Pete and Suzette. 5,000 years ago, Ishtar was a deity whose love is steeped in violence and suffering. In the beginning of spring, when the Nile river gave life to the land, the people visited the goddess's temple and indulged in 6 full days of wild orgies. Then, on the 7th day, 20 virgins were sacrificed on the altar. Their blood was collected in silver bowls and fresh organs were cooked and eaten by the crowd.
I encourage you freaks and lunatics to try "Blood Feast" at least once. Although it's not the best one directed by Lewis, it's certainly not the worst work either. If you are too intimidated by how I described this movie, then I suggest you have hamburgers for dinner instead.

Rating:
Summary: I Was Impressed!
Review: When I first heard of this movie, I didn't know what to expect. Sure the description of the movie says "nothing so appaling in the annals of horror" and it's extremely shocking and gory. In my mind I was thinking this movie was made in 1963 how gory can it be? Well to say the least I was impressed and suprised by how gorey the killing scenes are.

Mrs. Fremont wants to do something special for her daughters' party. Knowing her daughter is deeply interested in egyptian culture she hires Fuad Ramses to cater the party. He begins preparing the "Blood Feast" by murdering young women and taking parts of they're body to add to the feast.

The acting is pretty bad, it's actually comical, the story is pretty weak as well and yes the blood looks like bright red paint, but come on, this movie was made over 40 years ago, I'm suprised this was even shown at any drive in movie back then. Sure the effects are dated but no gore hound should be disappointed! As some have said before me. This movie is where it all started. I recommend this movie to the avid horror fan!

Rating:
Summary: giving this movie any less than 5 STARS!!! is a CRIME!!!!!!!
Review: WHY IS IT A CRIME?????????because this movie is the mother of all BLOOD/GORE movies!!!!!this is were it all started!!! and if you don't LOVE this movie then your just insulting the GENRE!!!THANKS!!!! H.G.LEWIS your the MANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: If you like bad, here it is!
Review: Wow! This movie is ONLY for people who like bad hollywood movies, and i'm not talking about something that just dissapioints you! I'm talking about something that is just bad all over the place! And yet, the strange thing about this movie is that once you watch it, you have this strange affinity for it. it's so bad, that you end up liking it! The acting is horrible (except for Fuad Ramses's line: "... an Egyptian Feast!!!") the writing is just a bad, it sounds like they filmed some of the scenes in a tin box (the police station) and how old is that detective? and he's going out with her? Yikes. Also, the music is the most eerie thing i've ever heard in a movie. it's always there. did you ever notice that they only have one car in the movie? Everyone drives the same car! The chase scene at the end is great. if you enjoy bad movies, this one is definitely for you!

Rating:
Summary: A cult classic
Review: Yes, the acting is putrid, and the gore is silly-looking by todays standards, and the sets occasionally shake a la Ed Wood, but Blood Feast deserves immortality not only because it's a "so-bad-it's-good" movie, but far more importantly, because Lewis, likely with something like a few thousand bucks' budget, launched a genre that's still going on today. You have to remember, in 1963, there was NOTHING in any film that even began to resemble the splatter in Blood Feast. The slasher film as we define it today hadn't been invented yet (unless you count Psycho, which was really more of a mystery), and Blood Feast was, indeed, the first. Worth owning, seriously. While the outakes aren't much, there's one memorable one where a supposed corpse keeps blinking. The short on carving is interesting, too.
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