Blood Feast (1963)

User Rating:

4.2/10   

Director:

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Writer:

Allison Louise Downe (screenplay)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Adult Horror!

Plot:

An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective try to track him down.

Plot Keywords:

Goddess | Caterer | Police | Kill | Evil

Cast

William Kerwin	...	Det. Pete Thornton (as Thomas Wood)
Mal Arnold	...	Fuad Ramses
Connie Mason	...	Suzette Fremont
Lyn Bolton	...	Mrs. Dorothy Fremont
Scott H. Hall	...	Frank, police captain
Christy Foushee	...	Trudy Sanders (as Toni Calvert)
Ashlyn Martin	...	Marcy, girl on beach
Astrid Olson	...	Motel Victim
Sandra Sinclair	...	Pat Tracey
Gene Courtier	...	Tony, boy on beach
Louise Kamp	...	Janet Blake / Sacrificial Victim
Hal Rich	...	Hospital Doctor
Al Golden	...	Dr. Flanders

Also Known As:

Egyptian Blood Feast (USA) (reissue title)
Feast of Flesh (USA)

Runtime:

67 min | USA:58 min (edited version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-18 (2001) | Germany:(Banned) (re-rating) (2004) | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:PG (heavily cut) | Netherlands:16 (2006) (DVD) | Australia:R | UK:18 | USA:Unrated | UK:(Banned) (1984-2001)

Filming Locations:

Miami, Florida, USA

Company:

Friedman-Lewis Productions

Trivia:

Prints issued at drive-ins in New York carried the advertising title "Egyptian Blood Feast", though the title card remains the same.

Quotes:

Det. Pete Thornton: Well Frank, it look like one of those long hard ones!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Uncanny (2006)

A very dear film to my gory, blood-filled heart

This is the splatter anticlassic all us sickos know and love. The non-plot is, well, pretty simple and it's only an excuse to cut loose with loads of very extreme gore and sadism. Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold), an Egyptian maniac of pagan bloodlust, must serve up a "blood feast" to Ishtar, his horrible goddess of gory days gone by. Y'know, back when chicks used to get their hearts yanked out on altars IN BLOOD COLOR! How does he get the morsels for his feast? It's an easy guess! Tongues pulled out. Limbs cut off. Brains hacked out in a blood-splattered mess. It's the grand-daddy of all the sickest stuff you've ever seen, and even though it's pretty stupid and bad, it sure is fun! It's even funny on purpose (as well as the other way around). For those of you who dig this unsavory and depraved type of junk the way I do, find this bad mother as soon as possible and surrender to the forbidden pleasures of the first splatter-comedy ever! (I think...)