Blood Feast

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Anthony D Jun 26 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. See more Nick O May 22 Grab some raw meat, red paint and don’t be late for your first class…Gore101. Oh, and don’t forget your barf bag! See more 06/24/2024 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! See more Wayne K 05/21/2023 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. See more 10/13/2022 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. See more Taylor L 09/04/2022 The origins of the gorefest brought to you from the mad mind of Herschell Gordon Lewis. Years before audiences realized that they wanted to see boundaries pushed and their senses of good clean morality offended, Lewis saw the writing on the wall and brought gallons of blood and crates of anatomically questionable gore to the big screen. Make no mistake, Blood Feast is a terrible quality film. The acting is almost offensively bad, the pacing and writing are god-awful, the 'exotic' elements aren't even vaguely reminiscent of anything authentic. Some of the shots are bizarrely out of focus and the audio is in and out. Even the print quality is wildly flawed. By every standard, it deserved to be the critical flop that it was in 1963. But everything that served as a glaring detractor back then has switched polarity - Blood Feast is one of the great so-bad-it's-good films in the modern day, a satire of the '60s conservatism that would have condemned it. It's so superficial and silly that the thought of a preacher railing against it as part of a sermon is hilarious. And that's ignoring the sincere influence that the film has had on the horror genre, a true trailblazer for all the gorefests of later years, which still make their way through the modern slasher circuit. What Black Dynamite was to blaxploitation films, Blood Feast is to splatter horror, except that it was actually made before the splatter genre even existed. (3.5/5) See more Read all reviews

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