Blood Feast
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Writer: Allison Louise Downe
Cast: William Kerwin, Mal Arnold, Connie Mason, Lyn Bolton
Part of: /slash Filmfestival

Plot:
Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) is a caterer in Miami who is getting all the necessary ingredients for a traditional feast for the ancient Egyptian goddess Ishtar. Unfortunately the feast consists mostly of human female body parts, so Ramses murders his way through the city while Detective Pete Thornton (William Kerwin) is at a loss with his investigation. When high society lady Dorothy Fremont (Lyn Bolton) plans the birthday party for her daughter Suzette (Connie Mason), she hires Ramses for the catering – and Ramses sees the perfect opportunity to stage his feast.

Blood Feast is an incredible bad film. Seriously, the film might have been revolutionary and founded a whole genre but there is nothing of quality in this film. Which is exactly what makes it so entertaining.

Blood Feast is a very short film – only about 70 minutes – and it really shouldn’t have gone on any longer than it did. But for the time it did last, it was absolutely great.

The film moves along without even the tiniest bit of irony. Frankly it’s amazing that you could make this film and take yourself completely seriously, but everybody in this movie managed.

The acting is really bad. I really can’t decide what’s worse: Connie Mason’s refusal to act at all or Mal Arnold who acts enough to keep an entire family of actors afloat for a year. Most of the other actors are just plain wooden.

The rest of the film is equally bad. The story is ridiculous, the plotting worse and let’s not even talk about the dialogues. The only thing you can credit the movie with are its special effects which were awesome for the time. Other than that, lean back and enjoy the crap.

Summarising: A classic in the wide field of shitmazing.