Blood Feast (1963)

	Directed by: Herschell Gordon Lewis	COUNTRY USA GENRE Horror/Splatter NORWEGIAN TITLE - RUNNING TIME 67 minutes
	Produced by: David F. Friedman
	Written by: Allison Louise Downe David F. Friedman Herschell Gordon Lewis

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Detective Pete Thornton	William Kerwin	½
Fuad Ramses	Mal Arnold
Suzette Fremont	Connie Mason
Frank, Police Captain	Scott H. Hall
Mrs. Dorothy Fremont	Lyn Bolton

Review

In plot and structure, Blood Feast, in retrospect dubbed as the first ever splatter film, is reminiscent of the slasher genre which developed about a decade later. As such, whatever creativity director Herschell Gordon Lewis brought into this was purely graphical; that is to say, the up-until-this-point unprecedented use of stage blood and gory prosthetic makeup. It is quite obvious that this was the one area where Lewis and co. put in a real effort, and some of it looks semi-realistic and undoubtedly brought chills down the spines of young drive-in moviegoers back in the early sixties. With that said, everything else about Blood Feast is amusingly unprofessional, from the appalling acting to the bad camera work. Only recommended for hardcore horror and cult film buffs.

Copyright © 03.12.2010 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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