Blood Feast (1963) on Netflix
Fuad Ramses runs a catering shop in Miami and murders women, gathering their parts for a blood feast to the goddess Ishtar. Dorothy Freemont hires him for her daughter Suzette's dinner party.
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Plot summary
A woman comes home to her Miami apartment, hears a radio report of a murder, and is attacked while taking a bath; the killer leaves with her leg. At the police station, Detective Pete Thornton is told the maniac removes limbs and organs from his victims and leaves no clues. Fuad Ramses keeps a gold statue of the goddess Ishtar in a back room of his catering shop and mixes a blood feast from the parts he gathers. Dorothy Freemont books him for a dinner party honoring her daughter Suzette, who is interested in Egyptology; Ramses says the feast he will prepare has not been made in 5,000 years.
Cast
- Mal Arnoldas Fuad Ramses
- Lyn Boltonas Dorothy Freemont
- Scott H. Hallas Frank - Police Captain
- Ashlyn Martinas Marcy
- Astrid Olsonas Motel Victim
- Jerome Edenas High Priest (uncredited)
- David F. Friedmanas Drunken Husband (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Blood Feast (1963)
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- Producer David F. Friedman came up with publicity stunts for Blood Feast, handing theater-goers "vomit bags" and deliberately taking out an injunction against the film in Sarasota, Florida; both stunts drummed up more interest in the film.
- In the United Kingdom, director Herschell Gordon Lewis's Blood Feast was banned and added to the "video nasty" list; a 2001 DVD release still had 23 seconds cut, and it was only released uncut with an 18 certificate in 2005, over 40 years after the ban.
- For the scene where a woman's tongue is ripped out, director Herschell Gordon Lewis wanted a realistic prop and had a sheep's tongue imported from Tampa Bay; every other limb and organ used in the film was bought locally.
- Blood Feast is considered the first splatter film, a sub-genre of horror noted for its graphic depictions of on-screen gore.
- Herschell Gordon Lewis got the idea for Blood Feast after seeing Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, which he felt cheated by showing the results of the murders but not the killings themselves, because Hitchcock could not risk theaters turning it down.
- Herschell Gordon Lewis shot Blood Feast in color for one reason: to show the red blood used in the film.
