Blood Feast (1963)

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A serial killer is on the loose. Women are being killed and body parts are being stolen. The police are stumped (so to speak). Meanwhile, Egyptmania seems to be gripping this small Florida town. Fuad Ramses's "exotic catering" shop is doing a booming business and his book, Ancient Weird Religious Rituals, is being studied by the local book club. Is there a connection between Ramses and the murders? Of course! In this movie by the wizard of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, plot and suspense take a back seat to the gruesome and bloody murder scenes. The acting may not be very good, the script is weak at best, and the effects don't hold up to later standards of Hollywood gore, but there is an infectious enthusiasm that comes through Lewis's desire to shock his audience. The exploitation elements may be dated, but that only makes them all more entertaining. A shocking drive-in sensation when released in 1963, Blood Feast remains a milestone in the exploitation genre, followed (in what would come to be known as Lewis's "blood trilogy") by Two Thousand Maniacs! and Color Me Blood Red.

Nothing so appalling in the annals of horror has ever been seen before. When Mrs. Fremont hires crackpot Egyptian cultist Fuad Ramses to cater a party for her daughter, Suzette, she commits the culinary catastrophe of the century! Fuad immediately prepares a Blood Feast made from the grisly body parts of nubile young women. The world's first (and most notorious) "gore" film, "Blood Feast" is both shocking and hilarious. It's also the first of the infamous "blood trilogy" from director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer Dave Friedman, who followed this perverse classic with the equally twisted "2000 Maniacs" and "Color Me Blood Red."


This movie is extremely bloody for its time.
Something Weird Video has given "Blood Feast" a great tribute with its DVD version.
Great crazy 60's horror!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfHJMdVOvn8

I love it!

[Drayton Sawyer]

You can tell how new showing blood in color was then. Very fake looking. Then again the fake look to blood was that way for years.

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This is a crazy film. ;D That bath tube scene was brutal.

[Drayton Sawyer]

Is that what your gif banner is? The blood looks a little more real in that scene. Killing someone with a butcher knife is pretty sweet.

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Oh no.
That bathroom scene gif is from Blood cult.
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I haven't made any from Blood feats yet.
As soon as i can i'll make some from Mirrors and feast.

[Drayton Sawyer]

That makes more sense. The film quality does look better in that gif.

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Its been ages since i last checked this thread.
Never got to making any gifs from these films.
Blood feast was good though.
I liked it a lot.

[dtc]

Blood Feast is awesome. I love the parents of the girl who was killed on the beach....as they are in the detective's office and the mother is sobbing...the dad says "you HAVE To calm down....she was a great girl....she would have WANTED US to help these detectives!"

[jlaw]

Haven't seen this one yet, though its been on the back burner for a few years now. The comments here are going to make me bump it up the Netflix queue. Too bad it's not on instant watch, like its 40 years later sequel.