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Blood Feast1963

Name: Blood Feast
Genre: Splatter & Gore, Witchcraft & Occult, Classic Monsters
Released: 1963-07-06
Rating: 4.8

“You'll Recoil and Shudder as You Witness the Slaughter and Mutilation of Nubile Young Girls - in a Weird and Horrendous Ancient Rite!”

Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

4.8

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 5.0Rotten Tomatoes 33%TMDB 4.8

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Year

1963

Runtime

67 min

Box Office

Budget

$24,500

Revenue (worldwide)

$4,000,000

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.

Horror Vault's take

A Miami caterer with a secret obsession for an ancient Egyptian goddess begins a murderous spree, collecting grim trophies from his unsuspecting victims. Herschell Gordon Lewis's landmark 1963 shocker is widely credited as the film that invented the splatter genre, delivering gore that was genuinely unprecedented for its era. Part ritual horror, part campy proto-slasher, it follows the investigation closing in on a killer whose atrocities hide behind the veneer of suburban respectability. Crude by modern standards, it remains a pivotal and audacious artifact of exploitation cinema.

Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Dismemberment, Depictions Of Ritual Murder, Violence Against Women