An absolute waste of money

It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

As far as I know, HG Lewis's Blood Feast is the first gore film. The film left its mark and is a very influential and very entertaining micro budget horror flick that would become a cult classic. HG Lewis may not have been the most talented film maker, nor did he have an abundance of resources to make his movies. But the man has style and knew how to entertain and build an audience. Having said that, Blood Feast is good for what it is. It is campy fun that obliterated the taboo of blood, gore and violent content in film. For the time,(1964)this kind of material was unheard of ,shocking and totally extreme. HG Lewis had balls for making this and thankfully pulled the chain on "good taste" and "moral fiber" by flushing them down the toilet for good. Blood Feast, was way ahead of its time and did well in the drive in circuit shocking audiences with chunks of blood red carnage splattering across the screen. Our hero, Fuad Ramses is on a mission from God.(the Egyptian God's actually) He is to prepare a feast in honor of Goddess Istar from the body parts of several female victims to insure that she will live again. No such thing has been attempted in five thousand years, so caterer and devotee of the ancient religion has to give it a go. Blood Feast indeed delivers and holds up as a great piece of campy entertainment. There also is creepiness and dark humor to accompany the gore. While I am indeed a fan of HG Lewis's work and he made a lot of similar films, there is something special about Blood Feast. This film, as well as many of Hershell's other films are very influential to many film makers and have entertained generations of horror fans. I would regard Blood Feast as essential viewing for horror fans, especially to those into more extreme or underground films.

This is probably up there in the top ten best drive-in classics of all time. It shocked audiences when it premiered because there is a kind of gruesome scene where the villain, Ramses pulls out a beautiful girls tongue. Ramses is trying to bring about some god or something and is killing girls in gruesome ways to cook them up for an Egyptian Feast. The sets literally look like cardboard. All of the characters from the cops to the victims were complete idiots. Even the make-up and costumes are ridiculous. The script was so bad and the acting was so stiff, it's laughable. How can something some bad be so entertaining? I'm not sure if Hershel Gordon Lewis meant for this to be tongue in cheek humor or what. I know he is a schlock auteur in the ranks of Ed Wood and Lloyd Kaufman and was probably working on a shoe-string budget. I do love these type of movies though. They are some much fun to watch and Hershel Gordon Lewis was a crazy genius in his own right.

This is possibly the Worst Movie to ever get a HIGH RECOMMENDATION. Worst because of the Abysmal Acting and obvious Obliteration of any attempt to Construct a Work of any Socially Redeeming Value. BUT... here is the but. The Film was released to an Unsuspecting Public and played Without Restraint (or age restrictions at the box office) in Main Street Theaters in Small Town America.Shot in a week or so on a Budget of None, this was the First Gore Film. It was not only the First Gore Film, it was a Gore-Fest Stylistically Solidified the Genre and Announced a Horror Movie Adjective that would come to be a Force to Reckoned. The aforementioned Ultra-Violence, Shot in a Rich Color Process, was and is Fantastically Effective. The Movie was so Far Ahead of its Time that Nothing Remotely Resembling it Appeared for Years. Clunky, Stagy, Over-the-Top and Shamelessly Subversive, this Film is True to the Definitive Definition of a CULT CLASSIC.

Blood Feast stars Mal Arnold as mad, murderous maniac Fuad Ramses, a man who is clearly evil from the ridiculous size of his eyebrows, his lame leg, his menacing glower, and the completely malevolent manner in which he rubs his hands together. But although he's the last guy in the world you or I would trust as a caterer, Mrs. Dorothy Fremont (Lyn Bolton) is only too happy to let him prepare the food for her daughter Suzette's dinner party, and seems genuinely surprised when she discovers that the crazy Egyptian's ancient feast consists of human body parts, and that poor Suzette (Connie Mason) is intended to be the final ingredient.As the first ever 'splatter' movie, H. G. Lewis's Blood Feast is an undeniably important entry in the annals of horror cinema, ushering in a new, much bloodier era for the genre; but although it is certainly a taboo shattering and highly influential film, the fact remains that it is also a dreadfully amateurish and rather tiresome effort—one that even the director himself admits was far from great: 'It was no damn good', he has said of the film, 'but it was the first of its kind'.Not only does the film feature some of the crappiest acting in movie history (Lyn Bolton deservedly receives flak for her awful performance, but I reckon Gene Courtier, as a victim's distraught boyfriend, is even worse: he looks like he's laughing!), but the direction is also extremely dull (with constant use of overlong static shots), and the music is abysmal. Even the film's major selling point—the ground-breaking gore—fails to impress, consisting of an unconvincing collection of mannequin limbs coated with red paint and liberally scattered with offal.On top of all that, we also get a supposed ancient Egyptian female sacrifice bearing bikini tan marks, an Egyptian themed dinner party for which no one dresses appropriately and which features absolutely no decoration, and a laughable finale in which Fuad, pursued by Suzette's policeman boyfriend Pete Thornton (William Kerwin), climbs into the back of a garbage truck and is immediately crushed to death.Since 1963, Lewis's admittedly intriguing premise has been dealt with several times: in the enjoyable trashy horror flick Mardi Gras Massacre (1978), awful unofficial sequel Blood Diner (1987), and most recently, in Lewis' own follow up, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002).