Herschel Gordon Lewis saw a scene in the bathtub and said:
- What's so shocking? Wounds from the knife do not show, so I will show you how to do it.
He took the money that he had, bought props and meat, rented several rooms in the hotel and invited his friends to shoot.
That’s how the first gore-movie appeared, that is, the first film where people were shown blood, gibberries and severed limbs in color.
I liked the film for the reasons I would have scolded others because that’s what makes the film memorable.
The plot, you could say no. The maniac just cuts, and the detectives guess who he is, and the maniac prepares for a bloody feast. Everything.
The actors here play so badly that tragic moments become comedic, especially with Russian voice acting. I swear to you, you can just look at the actors and see them reading the lyrics. The scenes with detectives are the funniest in the film.
The maniac here also causes laughter with his overplays. And he's lame faster than a lot of normal walkers. His motive is simple, to worship the mannequin, which is passed off as a statue.
Deaths here are bloody, but poorly made, it is clear that a piece of meat was put on the actor.
So, what do we have? Bad slasher, but that's the beauty of it. He did what he would do in the '80s, make bloody movies. And you know what? Lewis here was a man orchestra. He is a director, a composer, a cameraman, a screenwriter, and he made this film for mere pennies.
Until the next review.
Hershell Gordon Lewis, ladies and gentlemen! Does that tell you anything? In fact, when a moviegoer, especially a lover of horror, wants to trump his knowledge, he can safely name this filmmaker. That kind of showdown will always work. He was still in the movie "Juno."
Yes, they definitely talked about “Bloody Feast”, Lewis’ most popular film. I don’t have “Juno” at hand, I can confuse it (correct it if I’m wrong), as if Juno herself spoke about Argento, allegedly he is the coolest horror director. And someone put her up about Lewis, like Argento is naturally good, but Hershell is completely out of line. It's all really cool and fun.
The only problem is that Hershell is a very bad director. He just did something that no one had ever done before. Hershell began his journey with stupid nudity movies. I watched one of these movies and became unbearably boring (he was a long way from Mayer). Seeing Lewis himself tired, decided to completely change the landmarks.
Changed! Bloody Feast is the first Gore film in cinema history. What is this? When the blood pours fountains, the guts and brains out, and the heroes (Hershell’s young girls) die at a mind-blowing rate. The whole thing will (of course) relish. And you'd be right to say that apart from nuclear killings, Lewis has nothing to offer.
A man kills girls, everything. Yes, Lewis stuffed the ancient Egyptian gods, sacrifices, back and forth. It doesn't make much sense anyway. You can see he didn't have any money. Actors play very badly (watch the scenes when detectives chatted in their office, thought they would rust themselves). The main villain is constantly bloating his eyes. Funny comrade. That's the thing, it's more funny than scary.
The picture came out in 1963, managed to collect money. That's why old Lewis made more Gore movies. In the 70s he left the cinema. I traded movies for commercials. Do you want to watch Bloody Feast or not? As a moviegoer, yes. As a human being, no, because it’s all nonsense. And believe me on my word, who will tell you about the love of this film is banal cunning. This movie is not to be loved.
Then why is the review positive? Because Hershell Gordon Lewis is the best! My favorite director. Fulci, Romero, Carpenter - pop golimah ...
P.S.
Seriously, this is the second time I’ve had a similar situation (the Indian Mahakaal has been confused before), when I can’t give a high rating, but I want to see a review on a green background. After all, a hell of a massacre in the '60s is worth a lot. Blowing up the public. Learn, Mr. Trier.
Maniac Gallery: The Worlds of Herschel Gordon Lewis – Bloody Feast
Herschel Gordon Lewis burst into the 60s with his confident gait. This little-known director has done much to popularize thrillers and the emergence of slashers/splatters.
In his film, he tells a very simple and straightforward story about a maniac who loved women. They aroused him, he molested them, used violence... and killed them. Herschel Gordon Lewis is very accurate in qualifying and showing crimes. He tried not to miss the nuances.
At the same time, the psychological side of him will care least, the director will present us with a bright action.
Meadows of paint/tomato juice and severed limbs, of course, seemed to me superfluous. But overall, the Bloody Feast actually predetermined the appearance of slashers. And if you look at the ending, the parallels with “Death Proof” by Tarantino, it is difficult not to notice.
At the end of the day, I found this film too experimental. The director was overly fond of showing the "dismemberment" and other nuances, overlooking the conceptual potential of the film. At the same time, the resulting cinema, despite its grotesqueness, is lookable even today.
However, I liked "Two Thousand Maniacs" by the same director much more.
6 out of 10
Fuad Ramses is a merchant of exotic fruits and part-time priest of the ancient bloodthirsty goddess Ishtar, whom he is preparing to resurrect. True, for the resurrection of the goddess, he needs something very important, and meanwhile, brutal murders of young girls begin to occur in the city.
Creating something original and interesting in the genre of horror films has always been difficult, because for this you need to have a remarkable talent and love for the genre. However, such a revolutionary was the American director, screenwriter and cameraman in one person Herschel Gordon Lewis, who released his debut film Bloody Feast in 1963, which became the ancestor of the gore direction in horror and one of the most profitable horror films. It was Herschel Gordon Lewis who brought elements of brutal and bloody violence to horror films, exploiting them exclusively in his later works. However, in the Bloody Feast, which also spawned the 1987 remake of Bloody Diner directed by Jackie Kong, the emphasis is not only on the dismemberment, by today's standards looking naive and unrealistic, but also on frank sexual scenes and a good detective intrigue, as for a grindhouse film.
The actors in the tape play quite weakly and only William Kervin, who played the colorful blue-haired Fuad, gave everything 100%, creating a truly frightening image.
Herschel Gordon Lewis personally wrote to the picture and the soundtrack, powerfully whipping up horror in it.
“Bloody feast” is an unconditional classic of gore and horror films in general, which I recommend to all connoisseurs of thrash and horror.
8 out of 10
Some viewers for some reason believe that people who make films about how teenagers are cut for meat, the same psychopaths as those people who are dismembered according to the script of the films they put. But is that true? If a person's only goal is to scare you in some unusual way, is he a psychopath? And take yourself: since you sat down to watch the horror movie, you probably wanted to be scared. Here at one time and distinguished director Herschel Gordon Lewis, and his merit is that he put the first in the history of cinema gore-film, whose name corresponds to the content - "Bloody Feast". In fact, with his film, Herschel Gordon Lewis in the early '60s created the first prototype of the future genre of slasher, which struck a little later, 15 years later, in 1978.
In my review, I want to call “Bloody Feast” a slasher – and there is a simple explanation for this. In the plot of the film there is a terrible maniac who kills only young (and beautiful) girls, but more importantly, there is a real massacre. Yes, yes, that same massacre - with cubic liters of blood, severed limbs and an abundance of "meat"! And unlike the classic slashers, “Bloody Feast” is supported by a rather interesting and addictive plot. In general, the film is built on the principle of detective cinema: there is a maniac, there are victims who are becoming more and more every day, and there are police officers who investigate the murder case and try to track down a psychopath.
A mixture of a detective about a maniac obsessed with the cult of the goddess Ishtar, and, in fact, the dismembered woman turned out to be noble. “Bloody feast” looks in one breath, the plot touches with its content, non-banality, consistency. No one has ever accused Arthur Doyle or Agatha Christie of writing about murders that are often very brutal, so what is Herschel Gordon Lewis guilty of? He went further, and he portrayed these murders on big screens in great detail. Herschel rightfully earned fame among fans of horror films of those times, and is revered by modern fans of dismemberment - before him, in fact, something like this never happened.
Of course, the fact that the film came out in the early '60s makes itself felt. You can find fault with the fact that some moments are shown wrong or murders could look more natural, but, in what Herschel Gordon Lewis can not deny, for those times he created a truly original and unique film. In an era when the cinema did not yet require much makeup for murder scenes, Herschel Gordon Lewis already skillfully used all modern means to ensure that the close-up limbs and “meat” really looked like real ones. I will not argue that for our time all the achievements of Herschel have already been covered with dust (after all, fifty years have passed since then), and for someone they have become archaic, but I note that even without great discounts for time, you still believe what is happening on the screen. And about the shock of Herschel’s film in the ‘60s, I won’t say anything at all. There was nothing to compare it to.
The verdict. Even in these days of high technology, when the concept of three-dimensional graphics has long come into use, the makeup used to create visual effects in Bloody Feast looks acceptable. It is a pity that Herschel Gordon Lewis could not jump above his head, but left the world a legacy of his “Bloody Feast” – a real scandalous legend of the entire horror film.
8 out of 10
As Daniel Harms joked in one of his miniatures, Leo Tolstoy loved to play the balalaika. But he didn't. Hershell Gordon Lewis loved (and probably still does) making movies. But he can't. This movie makes no sense to even criticize and doesn’t even make sense to explain why. For lovers of slashers, I can only say that the murders themselves are shown here: we see a maniac raising his hand, and the next moment we have a bloody corpse, and a maniac holding some red poop, which are designed to symbolize the insides, etc. For the 1960s, it was probably cool, so critics are interested in the film as the ancestor of slashers (not all slashers at all, since there is Hitchcock, namely bloody slashers), although it is unclear why this particular fuflo received such status: it is no cooler than then paintings, for example, Mario Bava, and some spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and even more bloody. The color of blood is stupid and fearless, and we will not wait for a “bloody feast”. However, it’s not all bad: there are funny moments in the film. For example, the villain has blue hair. What did the filmmakers try to tell us? Is blue hair really scary? Or something even deeper? I think Hershell Gordon Lewis himself, due to the statute of limitations, will not be able to answer this question.
In conclusion, I will say that even the paintings of the French thrash king Jean Rollin in comparison with the “Bloody Feast” can be called stylish. Draw conclusions.
The world’s first gore-movie (i.e., a particularly harsh horror, where the emphasis is on meat and dismembered) left a good impression. It definitely won't stick in my memory like a ridiculous thrash or a comedy of absurdity with dismemberment. But the messages for this darkness - the actors godlessly now overplay, then underplay, murders are ridiculous, the direction is torn, as if Lewis wanted to keep up with everything and at once, the soundtrack is muddy - organ (stress on the second syllable, if anything) and a measured drumbeat. But!
It should be remembered that this film was shot, for a moment, in 1963 and is considered a classic of Grindhouse. If I had been born at that time and my consciousness had not been shattered by the amount of horror movies I had seen on the Internet, I would have been guaranteed to leave all the contents of my stomach on the cinema floor, because there is a lot of meat and blood – and the blood is so red that it looks almost purple.
As a child of hell here is Fuad Ramses - lame seller of exotic fruits, worshipping the ancient goddess Ishtar and endowed with a wild face and blue-gray hair. Of course, by modern standards, he is not a maniac, but the image is still not bad, besides, from modern maniacs in the style of “Knock and kill” he is distinguished by unhealthy bloodlust. Fuad falls on girls (what can you do, rituals require) and this is also OK in the tape. I especially liked the blonde who wore a red swimsuit in the pool scene, and in the final, a playful pink dress and white gloves (if I didn’t step, it’s the same girl, and if I did, well, then I liked two blondes at once).
I managed to watch a lot of horror films, so my assessment is not the maximum - I am used to what to do.
6 out of 10
But if you imagine that I am in 1963, then ...
. . . 10 out of 10