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SmallerDemon raves about BLOOD FEAST 2: ALL-U-CAN-EAT!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... When I very first discovered that there was a possibility that I could premiere sneak BLOOD FEAST 2 at this year's BUTT-NUMB-A-THON, I was ecstatic. I would get to be the first place on the planet where folks would get a chance to see the first new Herschell Gordon Lewis movie since I was about 5 years old. For those that know, you know how cool this would be. This is the man that changed horror for the redder. Before Herschell, horror was clean and subtle. BLOOD FEAST made it bloody, he confirmed that men and women alike had guts, and wasn't afraid to spill them. In 2001, films have once again lost their guts. Herschell is here to put them back on screen where they belong. Here's a movie with guts...
Blood Feast 2 was a real suprise for me. When Harry first started discussing
it, I was expecting the creepy type of gore flicks, like the serious type
from the 70s, which this movie seems to actually be a sequel of, but what we
got was something else -entirely-. What we got was some REAL gore and some
of the best camp acting I've seen in a LONG time and some of the most
hilarious lines of dialogue I've heard from a b-movie in a long long time.
The basics of BF2 can be wrapped up quickly: Grandson of the town's previous
serial killer who was making a blood feast for a Babylonian god (NOT
Egyptian, most people think that) moves in, is nice guy, trying to start
catering business, cops don't like him, he finds statue of the god, it's
eyes glow, he's now posessed by her (of sorts) and will now be creating a
blood feast to her.
Fuad is hired by the young detective's future motherin-law to cater the
detective's wedding. The fiance has several friends who are all very hot and
seem to have an affinity toward trying on lingere in front of each other.
Our elements for the plot are complete: cannibalistic caterer to cater party
of girl who has a wedding party of hot babes. Goodbye hot babes... well,
after we see your breasts of course.
The movie moves ahead with its promise. Gore gore gore. Not fake gore my
friends, but gore from the slaughterhouse! Fuad kills them in pretty much
every way that you can kill folks with kitchen utensils.
Remembered Gorings:
Hand in the meat grinder; melon baller to remove eyes; knives for
disembowlments galore; corkscrew for brain removal; knives for throat
cutting; and a kitchen mallet for one of the single funniest albeit shortest
moments in the entire movie.
There simly is not much in the way of complex storylines to talk about here.
It's a GORE movie folks. One the premise is established (see above)
basically the rest of the movie is a vehicle for choppping folks up, and we
get plenty of it.
The movie is also about snappy dialogue and boobs. Breasts, Banter and
Disembowelment might be a great poster snippet for this movie. The banter
and snappy dialogue are in top form, although delivery is sometimes a little
shaky, overall it's just nothing short of artistic. The breasts? There are
plenty, and they seem to have really held onto the 70s sensibilities here.
The breasts are mostly real and not gargantuan. In fact, there only seemed
to be one actress at all that was too skinny, but the rest we regular gals
for the most part, which made it all the more enjoyable. There is some
flirting around with the hot lesbo action, but it was indeed in short
supply. There was a call for more hot lesbo action in the final cut. Alas,
we must wait for Blood Feast 3. Boobies fans will not be disappointed,
however.
Horror fans will enjoy it, although it isn't accurately a 'horror' movie as
much as it's just a slasher/gore flick. All the elements are perfect for the
type of movie it is, so the fans of the genre should love it.
BNAT3 Notes from Blood Feast 2:
The Gore
Quotes from the slaughterhouse visit:
"What you boys doin' there with those brains?"
"For a movie sir."
"Do you have like some ice or something...?"
"Nawp. We gotta a bag you can put it in."
Blood Feast 2 is a basic gore slasher flick. Pretty gorey, but hilarious
stuff. The banter is what makes this movie stand out.
The writers are actually here and going over what they were involved in in
the making of the movie.
Shot on 35mm.
This is basically a drive-in flick which Joe Bob would love. Plenty of
boobies and blood. Buckets of blood.
Crowd response was spectacular.
"We didn't have one zoom on the shoot."
Question: "Could you possibly add more hot lesbo action in the final cut?"
Writer: "Well, there's always Blood Feast 3."
John Waters was the pedophile/homosexual priest in the film.
SmallerDemon
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Slash, gore, boobs, not much else a guy could ask for for. But I pine for the days of yore when I used to be scared of a film. Now, to even get the slightest hint of movie terror I still have to go back to th classic Texas Chainsaw...
PLEASE I PRAY TO THE MOVIE GODS...SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF ME...if only for a few moments!!
Oh yeah and while I'm talking to you Movie Gods...RELEASE HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES...or I will never worship you again.
Amen.
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jesus christ i nearly pissed myself.
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does anybody give a half a shit whether or not you're first? Your talk back capabilities should be stripped from you.
This movie looks good, i HOPE it has a nation-wide distribution, and doesn't end up just being straight-to-video or something. I doubt it'll end up in lots of theaters though, which is a shame -
I saw the movie and was extremely disappointed. Grant it, I never saw the first one so I had nothing to compare it to. However, what I found was an extemely amatuer film with no substance slapped onto 35mm instead of the "Second Coming" of B-movie cinema. The effects were very poorly done. There are scnes with stomaches being cut open for example and the skin looks like a piece of rubber with a slit in it. The acting was sub par to any B- movie in this day and age. This schlock might have flown back in the heydey of the original but it certainly doesn't even stand up to the B-movie quality of a Troma Film. Now I'm sure that some would say that you wouldn't have these other films had it not beed for the original Blood Feast but there is a certain level of quality expected. Bad acting, bad special effects and poor plot could have been made up with some great eye candy. the women are not that great looking and most of the time they are nothing more than an on camera tease. They get you riled up with a little fashion show type scene but nothing ever goes anywhere. I could get the same stimulation off of Playboy. Hey wait, Playboy shows X-rated stuff! As for the mallet scene ... my god I thought that was just a mistake. I'm sorry if I'm badgering this movie too much. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. I go to conventions all the time an check out the low budget shot on video indie horror movies for sale just for fun. Keep that in mind when you watch this movie. You are doing it just for fun becuase there is far better fare out there than this one.
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Here is a message from the guy who wore the prison suit. I hope that you enjoyed the fim. Personally, I enjoyed the experience. I am still psyched about being blessed by John Watters and I hope that you guys enjoyed it too.
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To start, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Whether you like BF2 is a personal matter, but to dismiss it as an amateurish attempt at a B-movie, particularly by someone who admits to never having seen the original Blood Feast, is pure ignorance. I, for one, have seen many Herschell Gordon Lewis films, and this one certainly holds up as an HGL outing. Simply stated in other reviews, the star of the movie is not the actors (though I feel they did an excellent job of b-movie interpretation, walking a fine line between purposeful over-acting and too-over-the-top bad acting), but the gore, not the vehicles through which we see it (ie. the latex torso), but the true honest-to-god guts.
One has only to have heard the crew of the film at BNAT3 to know that this isn't like your average Troma film (God Bless Troma, by the way, I love 'em). Troma buys cheap indie horror films, yes. And this is a cheap indie "horror" film. The difference is, these guys didn't set out to make a serious picture. It was fun. It was camp. And I feel they succeeded admirably. Lack of hot lezbo action, notwithstanding. But I'll hold out for Blood Feast 3. Anyone looking for porn can look elsewhere, because that's not what BF2 was about. It was about fun. Fun and gore. Fun and gore and T&A.
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And Stripey was my favorite character in the movie (except for maybe the priest).
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In my opinion, Stripey should be the star of Blood Feast 3. I mean, John Waters laid hands on him. And then he got to dance with that hot little cop...who should've been naked. God, I love exploitation films. And HGL and Dave Friedman are the gods of exploitation (2000 Maniacs, She Freak, Gore Gore Girls...the list is endless).
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Thank you Odin's Love slave. I agree the cop should have disrobed. Perhaps even a little hand cuff action.
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Complaining about the effects means that you may never "get" Blood Feast 2. The original "Blood Trilogy" (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, and Color Me Blood Red) employed cut rate effects (including stiff mannequin limbs!) along with real slaughterhouse guts... John Waters has no desire to go back to make the bargin basement production values of his early films; some audiences can't stand Water's early work purely from a production quality standpoint.... BF2 is exploitation filmmaking, the gooey gore will put off some audiences from the get go so better stunt bodies will do little to bring them back into the seats. Other audiences will see the effects as camp and dig it moreso because of the obvious fake quality. Not "so bad, it's bad" but because there is no confusion about the situation, it's a relief that you can laugh at it. Some critics have said that HGL's films would be "unwatchable" today if the effects had been totally convincing (they would be too grotesque)... Another way to look at it, HGL was adapting Grand Guignol blood letting theater to the screen. If you saw it on a stage, it wouldn't look like a polished Hollywood gore effect. What it lacks in accuracy it make up with the graphic punch! That said, some of the gore shots of guts being pulled out of the bodies last too long (not that it's gross, it's boring after a point). Move camera movement or varied angles could improve this. The rock and roll soundtrack includes some favorites (and the Honky song is well placed), congrats on securing the Ramones, the Cramps, Deadbolt, and SCOTS. The Q&A revealed that the background score hasn't been placed in the film yet, some of the scenes without music seem to drag and the score could improve the pacing. REAL rock & roll bands are another thing that Hollywood horror films aren't going to offer. Some of the acting was painful to watch but I liked the cop's over the top stiff portrayal. I want to like this film and I like some things about it (including the lingerie party and even the story) but this is outranked but some other recent rock & roll gore comedies (including Wild Zero and I Was A Teenage Mummy). The Sore Losers started off well and then went downhill. I'll always check out an HG Lewis movie and especially one that realizes what it is and who the audience is... Troma of the 1980s acquired poor films but had great promotional campaigns built up to bring audiences to the movie (or video store)... Here's a half-hearted suggestion for one of the next HGL films, a bio-pic about exploitation director Al Adamson (he was butchered by his building contractor)...
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Good to know there are so many out there who "get it!" Another cast mamber of BF2 here, and it's great to see some of y'all are ready for Herschell's comeback! Yes, jigger, you're absolutely right- you gotta take it as it is for what it is- we were out there to have fun, not win an Oscar! Enjoy-----
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