Blood Feast

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Movie
German title Blood Feast
Original title Blood Feast
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1963
length 67 minutes
Age rating FSK unchecked and confiscated nationwide
Rod
Director Herschell Gordon Lewis
script Alison Louise Downe
David F. Friedman
Herschell Gordon Lewis
production David F. Friedman
Stanford S. Kohlberg
Herschell Gordon Lewis
music Herschell Gordon Lewis
camera Herschell Gordon Lewis
cut Frank Romolo
Robert L. Sinise
occupation

Blood Feast is an American Exploitation - horror film from the year 1963 . That of Herschell Gordon Lewis turned and David F. Friedman produced feature film is considered the first splatter - and Gore film of movie history .

action

A young woman who has just taken a bath is brutally murdered after hearing the news on the radio about an ongoing wave of murders in the city. The murderer, Fuad Ramses, owner of a small Egyptian catering service, stabs the victim with a long butcher's knife and cuts off her leg, which he stows in a sack. Ramses is a follower of the ancient Egyptian cult of Ishtar , who wants to prepare a feast with the corpses of his serial murders, which an unsuspecting customer ordered from him.

One after the other, Ramses procures his "ingredients" through further brutal murders, while the police grope in the dark. Only a professor's lecture on Egyptian history and the Ishtar cult, in which a police officer commissioned with the case happens to take part, lets the case appear in a new light. After the policeman learns that Ramses (named after the Egyptian pharaoh ) is preparing a meal staged in the tradition of the Ishtar cult for the celebration of his girlfriend, he suspects that Ramses might be the murderer he was looking for.

After a call to the professor reveals the suspicious Ramses to be the author of a book about ancient, strange religious rites , the police have the Egyptian innkeeper's small business examined. In the basement they come across a kitchen equipped with ritual objects such as an Ishtar statue, in which the fragmented remains of the victims are lying around. Meanwhile, Ramses delivers his already finished “feast” for the planned celebration, which can be interrupted by the police in time. On the run, Ramses is crushed by the mechanics of a garbage truck.

backgrounds

  • The exploitation film, staged extraordinarily bloody for the time and now almost involuntarily comical , was announced with the lurid slogan "nothing so appalling in the annals of horror". People with heart problems and mothers with children were advised in the advertising trailer to leave the cinema for 90 seconds. Blood Feast shows, among other things, the severing of a leg, the tearing out of a tongue, the removal of internal organs and the dismemberment of a corpse (as well as processing it in a saucepan and oven) - acts that only became an integral part of horror films in the 1980s should be. Blood Feast is the first film that puts splatter and gore effects at the center of the plot. Björn Last wrote in his review for Filmzentrale that Lewis only added “the trappings after he knew how terrible and detailed his murder scenes have to look.” The film is now a cult film among his fan base , while more distant observers especially notice the bad trick effects and the even worse acting performances, which are mainly characterized by overacting and read dialogues.
  • Shot on a budget of $ 24,500, the film grossed approximately $ 6.5 million over the years.
  • In Germany, Blood Feast was confiscated by an order of the Karlsruhe District Court on January 20, 2004 under Section 131 of the German Criminal Code ( representation of violence ). In 2004, a brochure entitled "Forbidden!" published, in which the confiscation order, film studies and legal statements as well as a statement by the director are.
  • The director Jackie Kong made the 1986 film Blood Diner , which was supposed to pay homage to Blood Feast , and which is also highly regarded among fans of the genre .
  • The scene in which Ramses tears out a young woman's tongue was filmed with the help of fake blood and a sheep's tongue.
  • The low-budget trash horror film The Revenge of the 1000 Cats (La noche de los mil gatos) from 1972 was also marketed in the USA under the title Blood Feast .

Reviews

  • Haiko's film lexicon describes the film as "terribly bad" - so bad that this makes it a cult film . The portrayal of the actors is described as "gruesome".
  • Björn Last assesses the film as "an entertaining trash movie : campy , cheap, humorous and flashy". The list of continuity errors is gigantic, content-related and logical foolishness abounds, and the actors are anything but convincing. Lewis' self-composed score crowned it all. Krudes Drummachine -Gummere without style, but with that certain peculiar charm that surrounds Blood Feast all the time.

Continuation and remake

In 2002 a sequel was released under the title Blood Feast 2 - All u can eat . Initially, Blood Feast 2 was allowed to be sold in a censored version 18+ in Germany, Laser Paradise also released the uncut and unchecked version of the film, but on December 2, 2011, AG Frankfurt am Main pronounced the seizure for glorifying violence according to §131 StGB .

From 2015, a remake of Blood Feast was filmed under the direction of independent director Marcel Walz with Blood Feast - Blutiges Festmahl . The world premiere of the film took place on August 27, 2016 at Frightfest in the UK. In the US, the film is slated for a theatrical release in June 2017. The Gore effects were developed by Ryan Nicholson . Herschell Gordon Lewis has an appearance as Professor Lou Hershell.

literature

  • Stefan Höltgen, Holger von Hartlieb , Hans Jürgen Wulff : Prohibited! Documents and scientific statements on the seizure of "Blood Feast" . (1963) Brochure for the panel discussion "from 18" - The First Night of Law. Karlsruhe 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AG Karlsruhe, decision of January 20, 2004, Az. 31 Gs 134/04.
  2. ↑ cut report on schnittberichte.com
  3. ↑ frightfest.co.uk, accessed May 4, 2017
  4. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 4, 2017
  5. ↑ schnittberichte.com, accessed on July 15, 2015

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