VividSimon Simply Perfect

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Lee Eisenberg Herschell Gordon Lewis recently died, so I decided to watch one of his movies. I rented his most famous one. "Blood Feast" is known as the "Citizen Kane" of splatter films, and so Lewis is known as the man who launched the genre. Let's just say that it doesn't pretend to be anything that it isn't. Without a doubt, it took guts to get this made (pun intended). It looks tame by today's standards. You may have seen it referenced in John Waters's "Serial Mom" (the son makes a poster saying BLOOD FEAST and the principal complains about it).All in all, it's an enjoyable movie. For one with such a small budget, it was well made, with the sound properly recorded (contrast it with the MST3K-riffed "Manos: the Hands of Fate"). Nice, brainless fun.

fwdixon This may well be the worst picture ever made.For those of you who don't know, the plot involves a loony Egyptian caterer who must prepare the titular Blood Feast for the goddess Ishtar.Unfortunately for the nubile young women who live in the area, the "Feast" consists of their body parts.He's an enterprising psycho and goes about the town killing, butchering and dismembering the young women.There is not one aspect of this film that is not atrocious (maybe with the exception of the cinematography which is barely adequate.) The script is inane and the actors are the worst I have ever seen.Director Herschell Gordon Lewis makes Ed Wood seem like Cecil B. DeMille in comparison.This film isn't one of the so-bad-it's-good bad films.No, it's just bad, bad, bad.

jlthornb51 Director HG Lewis broke new and important cinematic ground with this incredibly terrifying and horrific film. The imagery in this motion picture is still haunting even 50 years after its release. Lewis' film remains one of the most powerful horror movies ever made and is a touchstone in screen history. The graphic detail of slaughter and bloody mayhem was without precedent at the time and opened the door for all that was to come, all that we enjoy so immensely today. It was not a creative leap for producers to follow the path from Blood Feast to the torture porn packing theaters at this very hour. It is indeed a courageous, innovative, and farsighted accomplishment by a true auteur.

Jonathon Dabell Depending on what angle you come at Blood Feast, it's either a one-star dog or a ten-star masterpiece. One star if you're looking for a film with an intelligent script, strong acting, atmospheric scoring, genuine suspense and powerful shocks. Ten stars if you're looking for cult campiness on a grand scale or a film which single-handedly invents a new genre. The genre busily being created is the gore/splatter genre… some might argue that the earlier Hammer horrors were the first true gore flicks, or perhaps The Monster Of Piedras Blancas with its infamous severed head scene. But in truth, those films were just a bit bloodier and more daring than what people were accustomed to. Blood Feast is an altogether different beast, for this is a true gore film – by which I mean that entrails are exposed, a tongue is torn out, an eye is stabbed out, limbs are severed and bodies are mutilated. Through modern eyes none of it looks terribly real, but at the time this took on-screen carnage to a whole new level.Egyptian caterer Faud Ramses (Mal Arnold) is asked to prepare a banquet for the birthday of pretty young student Suzette (Connie Mason). He tells Connie's mother that he will create an authentic Ancient Egyptian banquet, the likes of which hasn't been seen for 5000 years. What she doesn't realise is that he intends to serve up a genuine "Blood Feast", which is a cannibalistic meal comprising of the cooked organs and body parts of human beings. Ramses is responsible for a series of gruesome murders, each victim being a young woman who has had part of her anatomy removed by the demented killer. Apparently the whole feast is somehow supposed to resurrect the Ancient goddess Ishtar, or so Ramses believes. Suzette's slow-witted boyfriend Pete (William Kerwin) is the cop working on the case; will he piece together the clues before his girlfriend becomes the murderer's next victim? In most aspects Blood Feast is a truly inept film. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis subsequently hid behind claims that the film was intended as some kind of black comedy, but the reality of the matter is that there isn't much that's terribly funny here. The gore is everything really – there's certainly nothing to get excited about in other departments. Mason's performance ranks amongst the most amateurish seen in any movie, ever. The music consists of random notes bashed out on what sounds like a church organ, and bears no relationship to events on screen. The story is riddled with stupid logic holes (like the fact that the killer drags his heel due to a limp, and leaves a trail of tell-tale footprints when he carries out one particular murder at the beach…. yet the cops keep insisting that he's some kind of criminal genius who never leaves them a single clue!!!) The list of flaws is endless and could take up several pages…. but why bother? The gore's the thing, and if you're looking for the original inspiration for all those mad slasher flicks then Herschell Gordon Lewis's inept classic Blood Feast is the place to start.