Synopsis
Blood Feast (1963), directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, is the horror film to watch online if you care where gore cinema began — this is the first splatter movie ever made, shot in Miami in about five days for pocket change.
By day, exotic caterer Fuad Ramses cooks for high-society parties. By night he believes he's a priest of the goddess Ishtar, and reviving her means harvesting body parts from young women. He does it on camera, in close-up, with a butcher's bluntness no film had dared before 1963. The police flail in the dark while Ramses books the catering job for a debutante's celebration.
The acting is stiff, the makeup is crude, and the bright red paint pours by the bucket. None of that is the point. Lewis put dismemberment on screen first and opened the door for every gore film that followed. Come for the history, not the scares. Stream Blood Feast (1963) online on iFILM.
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