Line #21 Film/BloodFeast


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3	->''"Have you ever had an... EGYPTIAN FEAST?"''
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5	''Blood Feast'' is a 1963 horror film directed by Creator/HerschellGordonLewis.
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7	Fuad Ramses (Mal Arnold) is an Egyptian caterer in Miami, who secretly worships the Sumerian goddess Ishtar. He plans to resurrect her but he needs the body parts of pretty young women to do this. [[{{Gorn}} As the obvious ensues]], two detectives try to track him down.
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9	[[NightmareRetardant Though about as scary as a child's Casper costume the day after Halloween]], the film is notable for being the first [[{{Gorn}} really, really gory movie]] -- the first "[[SplatterHorror Splatter Movie]]", as they're called -- ever made in the West. It's also notable as the first film in Lewis' unofficial "Blood Trilogy" ThematicSeries, followed by ''Film/TwoThousandManiacs'' and ''Film/ColorMeBloodRed''. It had a comedic semi-remake called ''Blood Diner'' in 1987, a sequel (directed by Lewis himself) titled ''Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat'' in 2002, and a straightforward remake under the original title in 2016.
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11	According to producer David F. Friedman, the most difficult aspect of production was the fact that the women playing the victims [[{{Corpsing}} couldn't stop giggling and laughing]] at what was being "done" to them on camera; not that he or Lewis cared all that much, having infamously responded to a widely-circulated critical review with, "Herschell and I have often wondered who told the ''Variety'' scribe we were taking ourselves seriously."
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13	Not to be confused with the 1972 Mexican horror film ''Film/TheNightOfAThousandCats'', which was also [[MarketBasedTitle released in the US]] as ''Blood Feast''.
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16	!! "Nothing so appalling in the annals of tropes!":
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18	* ArtifactOfDoom: The sequel reveals that Fuad was corrupted into putting together the "Egyptian feast" by an evil idol of Ishtar, which, forty years later, also possesses Fuad's grandson, Fuad III.
19	* BigBad: Fuad Ramses, a fanatic dismembering women to resurrect this goddess.
20	* CompellingVoice: Ramses can mind-whammy people with his words.
21	* DumbBlonde: Suzette and her mother.
22	* EvilEyebrows: Fuad Ramses.
23	* {{Gorn}}: This is the first splatter movie ever made in the west, though not the first splatter movie made period -- that honor belongs to the 1960 Japanese horror movie ''Jigoku'', a.k.a. ''Film/TheSinnersOfHell'' (though one could argue that ''Blood Feast'' is the first "straightforward" splatter film, given that the entire point of it is showcasing gratuitous gore, unlike ''Jigoku'', which is a morality tale where the splatter is mostly confined to the Hell sequence finale).
24	* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath: A title like ''Blood Feast'' really sums up the tone of the film pretty well.
25	* ImAHumanitarian: Fuad Ramses's "Egyptian Feast" consists of dishes made out of human flesh. Worst of all, he offers them to unsuspecting people.
26	* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Fuad Ramses, who gets crushed to death in a garbage truck.]]
27	* LargeHam: Fuad, as evidenced by the page quote.
28	* MonsterMisogyny: Obviously, with Fuad Ramses dismembering exclusively women. There's also the irony that he's doing this to resurrect a goddess.
29	* PrettyInMink: Suzette's mother shows up at Faud's store while wearing a white mink wrap.
30	* SadlyMythtaken: Ishtar was [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Babylonian/Sumerian]], not Egyptian. This was [[ArtisticLicenseReligion deliberate on their part]]. It's also lampshaded in the sequel, when a woman working in the police department corrects the naive cops about Ishtar's origin. And in the 1987 spoof, it's ''Lumerian'' goddess ''Sheetar''.
31	* SplatterHorror: The first example of this genre in film, leading to...
32	* VideoNasties: Was made part of the list. Having been made in 1963, it is the oldest film on the list.

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