Tagline: A Weird, Grisly Ancient Rite Horrendously Brought To Life In Blood Color
Plot Outline: An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective try to track him down.
Plot Synopsis: Egyptian caterer busies himself collecting body parts from young maidens in order to bring Ishtar, an ancient goddess of good and evil back to life. When he has prepared enough parts for the ceremony, he hypnotizes a woman giving an engagement party for her daughter, at which he plans to perform the ancient rites of summons, using the daughter as his final sacrifice.
Apparently, Blood Feast has the notietriety of being the first gore movie. It was so shocking for its time, that quite a few theatres refused to show it. The movie was directed by the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Blood Feast (1963)
Tagline: A Weird, Grisly Ancient Rite Horrendously Brought To Life In Blood Color
Plot Outline: An Egyptian caterer kills various women in suburban Miami to use their body parts to bring to life a dormant Egyptian goddess, while an inept police detective try to track him down.
Plot Synopsis: Egyptian caterer busies himself collecting body parts from young maidens in order to bring Ishtar, an ancient goddess of good and evil back to life. When he has prepared enough parts for the ceremony, he hypnotizes a woman giving an engagement party for her daughter, at which he plans to perform the ancient rites of summons, using the daughter as his final sacrifice.
Apparently, Blood Feast has the notietriety of being the first gore movie. It was so shocking for its time, that quite a few theatres refused to show it. The movie was directed by the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis.
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