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Blood Feast

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In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
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Mattie Lucas From the Front Row The blocky cinematography that never seems to capture what it's supposed to be looking at could almost be called avant-garde. Rated: 1/4 Aug 6, 2019 Full Review Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy One of the masterpieces of truly feckless cinema, an epic fail of such grandeur that Ed Wood himself would be hard-pressed to do better. Worse. You know what I mean. Rated: 1/10 Jun 6, 2010 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Claims to be the first splatter film. Rated: C Nov 1, 2008 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Rated: 4/5 Feb 21, 2008 Full Review Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Proto-splatter from the Godfather of Gore. Rated: C Apr 21, 2007 Full Review TV Guide Unfortunately, while it certainly broke new ground in terms of explicit gore, it isn't a very good film. Rated: 0/4 Mar 28, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Vojin V "He died a fitting death, like the garbage he was". The movie had weird dialogue, every character seemed dimwitted. The plotline didn't go anywhere. The acting was horrible. The movie did get 5-6 belly laughs out of me and I was never really bored. The music was decent. Overall not a bad watch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 06/29/25 Full Review Anthony D Is it good? Yes. Is it bad? Oh, without a doubt. You must go in knowing that it's not going to be quality cinema. But, it's going to be fun. Even of the fin is in how bad it is. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/26/25 Full Review Nick O Grab some raw meat, red paint and don’t be late for your first class…Gore101. Oh, and don’t forget your barf bag! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/22/25 Full Review Audience Member This movie is the definition of so bad, it’s good. The whole movie feels like a parody horror movie you would see within a tv show. This was my first dive into Herschell Gordon Lewis’s work, and it somehow severely disappointed me, while also impressing me with how bad it was. I look forward to watching more! Rated 2 out of 5 stars 06/24/24 Full Review Wayne K To help add a bit of context to a recent podcast episode my friend and I were doing on Herschell Gordon Lewis' Two Thousand Maniacs, I watched the film he'd made the year before, Blood Feast. A simpler story, but with similar production values, acting quality and dialogue. These days, it's far less impressive than the average straight to Netflix horror film, but you need to look at it in the circumstances of the time. The blood, the gore, the threat, the supernatural elements. Back in the mid-60s, while films were still subject to some level of censorship, these things would have been difficult to find, and very appealing for this reason. It's undoubtedly a product of its time, and watching it with modern sensibilities might dilute its impact. But it's an indicator of where HGL's career was about to go, and why he left the mark he did on the world of exploitation cinema. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Emblematic illustration of a SPLATTER for avant-garde Kitsch collectibles: we are still in a pantomime of the silent expressionist. "Irreverence" Grand Guignol speaks to Alfred Jarry's Pataphysics. A mosaic of very small and rigid skits that look at the radio situation comedy; the final scene turns more 'ever in the usual cinema. It is so absurd that it can awaken attention from the armchair. Particular note: the aseptic insistence of the shots on bodily decay like tribal banquets. You're not quite sure if you're at the butcher's or a crazy jeweler. It is really meat. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont (Connie Mason), and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
Director
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Producer
David F. Friedman, Stanford S. Kohlberg
Screenwriter
Allison Louise Downe, David F. Friedman, Herschell Gordon Lewis
Distributor
Something Weird Video
Production Co
Friedman-Lewis Productions
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 6, 1963, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 25, 2018
Runtime
58m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm
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