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Very disappointing...

I'll tell you why so serious

Did you people see the same film I saw?

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

As far as I know, HG Lewis's Blood Feast is the first gore film. The film left its mark and is a very influential and very entertaining micro budget horror flick that would become a cult classic. HG Lewis may not have been the most talented film maker, nor did he have an abundance of resources to make his movies. But the man has style and knew how to entertain and build an audience. Having said that, Blood Feast is good for what it is. It is campy fun that obliterated the taboo of blood, gore and violent content in film. For the time,(1964)this kind of material was unheard of ,shocking and totally extreme. HG Lewis had balls for making this and thankfully pulled the chain on "good taste" and "moral fiber" by flushing them down the toilet for good. Blood Feast, was way ahead of its time and did well in the drive in circuit shocking audiences with chunks of blood red carnage splattering across the screen. Our hero, Fuad Ramses is on a mission from God.(the Egyptian God's actually) He is to prepare a feast in honor of Goddess Istar from the body parts of several female victims to insure that she will live again. No such thing has been attempted in five thousand years, so caterer and devotee of the ancient religion has to give it a go. Blood Feast indeed delivers and holds up as a great piece of campy entertainment. There also is creepiness and dark humor to accompany the gore. While I am indeed a fan of HG Lewis's work and he made a lot of similar films, there is something special about Blood Feast. This film, as well as many of Hershell's other films are very influential to many film makers and have entertained generations of horror fans. I would regard Blood Feast as essential viewing for horror fans, especially to those into more extreme or underground films.

I wanted to rate it higher than 6 but I think that would be too generous for it's simple storyline and it's underdeveloped characters. The killer does not really have a clear idea how to revive the Egyptian goddess and also it seems way too easy how he could victimize the young girls which had to serve as sacrifices for his plan. The final victim he wanted to make looks rather amateurish and the way he gets caught made me frown a bit. The ending feels quite rushed too. However where the movie excels and certainly for the time it was released is the graphical (read gore, blood and guts) department. It looks very real and still shocking to today's standards I think. It might not be the first splatter as I have read there is a Japanese movie which name escaped me now that came before it. But for one of the earliest movies in this genre is surely deserves some more recognition.

This is possibly the Worst Movie to ever get a HIGH RECOMMENDATION. Worst because of the Abysmal Acting and obvious Obliteration of any attempt to Construct a Work of any Socially Redeeming Value. BUT... here is the but. The Film was released to an Unsuspecting Public and played Without Restraint (or age restrictions at the box office) in Main Street Theaters in Small Town America.Shot in a week or so on a Budget of None, this was the First Gore Film. It was not only the First Gore Film, it was a Gore-Fest Stylistically Solidified the Genre and Announced a Horror Movie Adjective that would come to be a Force to Reckoned. The aforementioned Ultra-Violence, Shot in a Rich Color Process, was and is Fantastically Effective. The Movie was so Far Ahead of its Time that Nothing Remotely Resembling it Appeared for Years. Clunky, Stagy, Over-the-Top and Shamelessly Subversive, this Film is True to the Definitive Definition of a CULT CLASSIC.

I will try to breakdown each component: Plot: the plot is a restaurant owner uses people to perform an ancient feast (blood Feast). Basically it is an excuse to show teenage girls being killed and tortured.Acting: the acting ranges from completely cartooney (Fuad Ramses) to extremely boring (everybody else). Just flat out horrible acting.Score: A fourth grader playing the bassoon is better. It literally hurts yournears after a while.Blood Effects: The redest, fakest and most hilarious looking blood ever put on screen. And there is a lot of it.All there things add up just right for the magical experience known as Blood Feast. The film was released in 1963 and is directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It is considered the first explicitly graphic display of violence. It is flat out awesome and a real joy to watch. I also recommend the "sequals" 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red.