Blood Feast

Plot synopsis:
In the midst of a series of gruesome murders, a young woman is killed inside her suburban Miami house by a grey-haired, wild-eyed man. He stabs her in the eye and hacks her leg off with a machete, bagging the leg before he leaves. At the police station the next day, detective Pete Thornton investigates the killing, noting that it is the latest in a series of four murders by a homicidal maniac who has yet to leave any clues. The police chief advises him to continue to pursue the case.
At Fuad Ramses Catering store, wealthy socialite Dorothy Fremont arrives, where she arranges for Fuad to cater a party for her daughter Suzette. Fuad agrees and tells Mrs. Fremont that the Egyptian feast that he is preparing has not been served for over 5,000 years. Mrs. Fremont wants the catering done in two weeks, and Fuad assures her that he will have enough time to procure the last of his needed ingredients. After Mrs. Fremont leaves, Fuad ventures to the back storage room where he has displayed a large gold statue of his "Egyptian goddess" Ishtar. Fuad is preparing a "blood feast" – a huge vat containing the dead women's body parts – that will ensure the goddess's resurrection. That evening, teenagers Tony and Marcy make out on a nearby beach. Fuad attacks them, subduing Tony and slicing off the top of Marcy's head. He removes her brain to serve as the latest ingredient. Thornton arrives on the scene with the police chief. After failing to obtain any useful information from the distraught Tony, they interrogate Marcy's mother, who can only tell Pete that her daughter belonged to a book club.
Staking out a local motel, Fuad sees a drunken sailor drop his wife off at her room. Fuad knocks on the woman's door and attacks her when she opens it. Fuad rips the woman's tongue out through her throat as another ingredient to his "blood feast". Pete continues to investigate this latest killing, and discovers that the latest murder victim also belonged to a book club.
Pete attends his weekly Egyptian Studies lecture at the local university with his girlfriend, who happens to be Suzette. The lecturer tells them about the cult of Ishtar, and describes how virginal women were sacrificed to the goddess on an altar as a blood offering to the Egyptian goddess. When the lecture is over, Pete takes Suzette out for an evening drive. She becomes worried about the recent attacks and fears that a serial killer is loose in the area. Their date is interrupted by the car radio announcing that another victim has been found near death. Pete drops Suzette home and races to the hospital. The police chief informs him that the maniac has struck again and hacked off the face of another woman named Janet Blake. Pete questions Janet in her hospital bed. Her face bandaged, Janet tells the detectives that the man who attacked her was old, with wild eyes, and that he said something which sounded like "Etar". Janet then dies and Pete can't shake the feeling that this word sounds familiar. Fuad receives a letter from Trudy requesting a copy of the book Ancient Weird Religious Rites, written by Fuad Ramses. Fuad calls Trudy's home phone number and learns that she's staying with Suzette. That afternoon, Fuad stakes out the Fremont residence, kidnaps Trudy from the grounds and takes her to his store. He whips her savagely and collects her blood, the final ingredient in his bloody potion.
With Trudy missing, Mrs. Fremont insists that the party continue. Pete calls Suzette to inform her that he will be late. Meanwhile, Fuad arrives with the food that he has cooked at his store. Elsewhere, Pete calls upon the college lecturer and gets more information about the cult of Ishtar and Fuad's book. He deduces that Fuad is the killer, since all the victims were women who personally called upon him to send them copies of his book. Pete and the police race over to Fuad's store and find Trudy's chopped-up body in the back. Pete tries to call Suzette to warn her, but Fuad cuts the phone line to the Fremont house.
At the Fremont party, Fuad's meal is ready, but he first asks Suzette to come into the kitchen to help him. He has Suzette lie on a counter, which he makes his altar, and says a prayer to Ishtar as he prepares to decapitate her with his machete as a final offering to his goddess. This takes forever because she can't take him seriously. Dorothy Fremont interrupts Fuad just as he's about to decapitate Suzette, and Fuad escapes as the police arrive. Pete and the rest of the police chase Fuad through a nearby garbage dump, where he attempts to escape by climbing into the back of a departing garbage truck. The truck's compact blades turn on and Fuad is crushed to death. The police stop the truck, noting that there's not much left of Fuad. As Pete puts it, "He died a fitting end, just like the garbage he was."

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
Horrible.
One of the worst pieces of garbage I have ever seen..
I've seen some terrible movies in my lifetime, and this one is no different.
Talent-less actors, weak special effects, the movie takes forever to get going and when it does it looks like a bad porn film.
Really, this movie is just terrible and everyone involved should be embarrassed.
Tragic film making at its worst..
WTF?.
Two really negative reviews yet it has a rating of 7.6.
Appears that a lot of shills have been tapping star keys to push the score up.
Pretty obvious really that they are shills..
Thanks to Blood Feast 2016, I've found a new appreciation for HGL's original..
Fuad Ramses (Robert Rusler) moves to Paris with his wife and daughter (Caroline Williams and Sophie Monk) where he has spent every last cent opening an American diner in the suburbs.
To make ends meet, Fuad also works as a nightwatchman at a museum, where he encounters Egyptian goddess Ishtar, who promises him life eternal as her lover.
But first he must serve up a special feast in her honour...Herschel Gordon Lewis' influential splatter classic Blood Feast is undeniably amateurish and quite dull, but at least it's gory; Marcel Walz's 2016 version of the film is even more boring than the original and almost as inept, but doesn't even deliver on the blood and guts.A full fifty minutes of dreary, badly scripted, poorly acted build up precedes the film's one and only genuinely gory moment, a juicy throat slashing, after which the film settles back into 'dry' mode.
The remainder of the movie is uneventful and, despite its handful of recognisable 'stars', the whole thing lacks professionalism.What this film needed was a better supporting cast (the European performers are terrible), a degree of intentional cheeze, a sense of fun, and, most importantly, lots of graphic gore so that it could at least live up to the title.Worse than the original film, worse than Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002), much worse than Mardi Gras Massacre (1978), and even worse than Blood Diner (1987), about the only thing going for this mess is the suggestion that Ishtar is a figment of Fuad's imagination, the restaurateur having neglected to take his daily medication for an unspecified ailment - an interesting idea, but it's not enough to prevent me giving this garbage the lowest possible rating..
This is a scurvy film.
Ryan Nicholson, the fx guy did some good job but the lingering gory n cannibalism scenes were a put off..
Saw this on a dvd.
I got enticed due to Sadie Katz n the trailer.
What a disappointment this film turned out to b.
Ther was absolutely zero suspense n tension.
This movie is completely devoid of any atmosphere.
The plot is about an owner of a diner who is also moonlighting as a watchman in a museum of Egyptian artefacts.
He stops taking his pills n during one of his work shift he sees the Egyptian goddess who demands him of blood n sacrifice which will enable their reunion.
Ther was too much gore n i fast forwarded some scenes, especially of the cannibalism.
The effects by Ryan Nicholson is noteworthy but the lingering gory scenes were a letdown for me.
Also the abrupt ending added more fuel to its already awful screenplay.
It is a remake of the 1963 film which i hav completely forgotten.
Mayb will revisit soon.
The original was directed by the father of gore films, Herschell Gordon Lewis.
They say the original was the first splatter film n one of the earliest to enter video nasties..
How did this movie get such high rating??.
Such big disapointning, pathetic acting, not bad idea of story but such poor way this story was told.
Didn't even had pation to watch it till end, canceled at midle of the movie..
Plain wrong.
One thing this got right is the amount of blood it has.
And without having seen the original this is based on (I can only assume that it wasn't a masterpiece either, but still way better than this, it has to be), I can say, that this is really bad.
Now I do see the rating this received from others (though none wanted to comment on their rating?) and I can only assume that they were enjoying how bad this is.Like having a blast watching a bad movie with mates/friends.
Kind of like "Tulpa" where I had a really good time, despite (or because) the movie was awful.
Now this is more or less aware of how bad it is, it actually tries to play into that fact.
But just by acknowledging that you are doing something intentionally, doesn't make it fun.
There is also a craft in being bad by purpose.
This just is infantile (in more than one way).
One example is a sign at the diner, that has a joke, but is being shown for way too long.
It's in your face, waving with both hands jumping up and down, right in front of your nose.
Again, this may be able to entertain in times (for all the wrong reasons), but it's not good - no pun intended.
I Waited 2 Years For This...
I rarely write reviews, but I must save the viewing audience.
I waited 2 years for this disappointment!
Poor script and pointless Gore..
Oh and the worst part, it ends abruptly as if they ran out of film or money...
Don't waste your time or you'll be sorry.
I can promise you that...
A strong finale, once you finally get to the blood feast....
This movie is a remake of a classic Herschell Gordon Lewis film.
Lewis, known as the Godfather of Gore, did extreme and extremely silly high concept horror films like The Gore Gore Girls and 2000 Maniacs (remade as a Robert Englund flick about a decade ago).
I'm not a huge fan of his and my interest in this movie had more to do with its marketing, which swore it was a hardcore, over-the-top gore film.
Honestly, though, this movie seems almost apologetic for its intense content.
It tells the story of an unstable, American restaurant own that moves to Paris with his wife (Caroline Williams of Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Hatchet 3) and college aged daughter (Sophie Monk of The Hills Run Red).
He is going broke and goes off his meds then promptly begins hallucinating, believing he has been ordered by an Egyptian goddess to perform a blood sacrifice in her name.
He begins murdering and cooking young people while his suspicious wife noses around and his oblivious daughter is romanced by a local cop.
Blood is spilled but it's often slightly off camera, which is disappointing.
The opening is pretty awesome and the finale is great but the entire middle is a snooze.
A lot of this has to do with a dull supporting cast and a stilted leading man.
Caroline Williams and Sophie Monk, the only two actors I had heard of beforehand, are great but they're kind of peripheral to the movie for the most part.
I can't really recommend this movie.
The trailer is stronger than the actual film and I found it kind of boring overall.
There's certainly worse out there right now so I guess, if you're desperate, give it a look.
Just don't expect too much..
Disappointing.
I donated to this film around 2015 , after that the film was released a while later so l brought a DVD copy of Blood Feast .
Hmmmmm is the film scary or suspenseful !
Not really , is the film boring unfortunately it is & the acting !
Not so great , the film stars Australia's own Sophie Monk & Caroline Munroe , l would have to say even the silly Blood Diner (1987 ) way more entertaining than movie very forgettable.
Historically inaccurate.
Ishtar was Sumerian, not Egyptian.
This is a sad attempt to make Goddess worship about sacrifice, which it isn't..
A Boring Disappointing Remake to a Cheesy Classic!!!.
I was really let down by this remake.
You'd think in today's time with movies like Saw and Hostel, this would be gorier because it's based on one of the original classic splatter films, but no.
The gore was kinda 'meh' The movie is a slow burner with generic characters like Penny Ramses and her boring friends.
The original was great for its time; it was so cheesy and corny that it's pretty epic.
The gore was bright and colorful and showed the classic look of the 1960's, but this movie's color is off.
It looks like it was made by a low budget independent company, and honestly I couldn't even see how it ended.
The lighting was too off.
There was a flashlight and some screaming and next thing I know, it's over.
The movie is about Fuad Ramses, an American living in Paris with his wife and daughter.
Fuad owns an American Diner and is a security guard at a museum.
For some reason, he starts seeing hallucinations of the goddess, Ishtar, who tells him to offer her a 'blood feast' so he goes around killing people.
Just do yourself a favor and skip this movie and re-watch Hershell Gordon Lewis's original classic.
I would not recommend the remake of BLOOD FEAST!!!