Blood Feast (1963 film)

Cultist Fuad Ramses enthusiastically describes an "Egyptian Feast" in Blood Feast (1963 film)...

Blood Feast (1963), AKA Egyptian Blood Feast, The Blood Feast, Feast of Flesh, Blood Orgy....

A 2002 sequel, Blood Feast 2, was filmed by the same director.

Summary

"A nightmare of gore! Nothing so appalling in the annals of horror! A weird and grisly ancient rite horrendously brought to life in Blood Color!" In this early slasher movie, 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 tries to track him down.

Details

• Release Date: 1963
• Country/Language: US, English
• Genres/Technical: Horror (slasher)
• Runtime: 1 hr 07 min
• Starring: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason
• Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
• Writer: Allison Louise Downe (screenplay)
• Producer/Production Co: Friedman-Lewis Productions, David F. Friedman, Herschell Gordon Lewis
• View Trailer: (link)
• Have you ever had... an EGYPTIAN FEAST? (link)
• TVTropes: (link)
• IMDB Page: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: (not rated) (equivalent to an 'R' for Violence and mild 1960s Nudity)

One of the original banned "video nasties", rated "X" in some markets for its creative, over-the-top, yet naive and inept gore, including gouged eyes, severed limbs, ripped-out tongues, various disembowelments, a brain extraction, etc.

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• s____ (One-Half Tentacle: almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Aside from a (non-supernatural) ghoul cult cannibal feast, there is no real "Lovecraftian" content in this film.

Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.

Reviews

Review Links:

• Horror News dotnet, (link) - "This is low budget gold... Lewis is the Ed Wood of Gore!"

Synopsis (SPOILERS)

An Egyptian caterer is actually a cultist who kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts in a cannibal feast that he believes will bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective tries to track him down.

Notes

Comments, Trivia, Dedication

• According to producer David F. Friedman, the most difficult aspect of production was the fact that the women playing the victims couldn't stop giggling and laughing at what was being "done" to them on camera.

Associated Mythos Elements

• deity: "Ishtar", a supposed "Egyptian Goddess of Death and Evil"

Keeper Notes

• This schlocky gore-fest might make for an unsettling and amusing, short, "low-mythos" scenario to run through on a day when one too many players fail to show up: a trail of mutilated bodies with missing body parts leads to cultist Fuad Ramses, who is busy trying to hypnotize the family of a rich dilettante into hosting an "Egyptian Feast": a cannibal feast calculated to incarnate Random Goddess of Evil Ishtar (or your friendly neighborhood Tentacle Monster), and which has not been performed for FIVE THOUSAND YEARS. The investigators are invited to the feast - just add Ghouls to adapt it to a more Lovecraftian fare!