Synopsis: An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami using their body parts to revive the dormant goddess Ishtar while an inept police detective tries to track him down.
By day, Fuad Ramses runs a niche catering company, by night he murders women and collects their body parts. His goal is to prepare a blood feast in order to revive the long dormant goddess Ishtar. That’s about it. There really isn’t much to this movie except what’s needed to fuel the blood and gore.
Directed by the one and only “Godfather of Gore” himself, Blood Feast is one that’s long been on my list. Some of the first movies I remember watching (at an age I probably shouldn’t have been) were directed by Lewis himself. The likes of 2000 Maniacs, The Wizard of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls are the sanguine filled shock films of 60’s and 70’s that laid the foundation for the slashers in the 80’s. They’re pure schlock made specifically for shock value and I love them. Practical effects including buckets of blood and the most ridiculously brutal gags fill the runtime and they’re rarely burdened with an extensive storyline or exposition. As a young aspiring FX artist in the 80’s, these flicks were a wet dream. Films today could never pull off what was done back then. It’s a time capsule of a specific era in genre history and probably why I tend to dislike CGI effects of the horror films of today.
These types of flicks are definitely not for everyone but if you like your horror filled with severed limbs and tons of bright red blood then look no further. Blood Feast wastes no time with its 67 minute runtime and will absolutely satisfy that itch for you.
You can find this currently streaming on Tubi as of this writing.
Join me again tomorrow as we continue this strange journey down the horror rabbit hole.
This trailer is pretty explicit so I’m going to leave it as a clickable link rather than embedding it. View it at your own discretion. You’ve been warned.
