Funny bones: Ten Comedy Horrors first published by BFI, 3rd October 2024, occasioned by the 50th anniversary of Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (1974) Includes capsules of: The Old Dark House, Blood Feast, Spider Baby, House (1977), An American Werewolf in London, Evil Dead II, Braindead, Gozu, Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil, Werewolves Within Focusing on…
Blood Feast first published by VODzilla.co “Well, Frank,” says Detective Pete Thornton, in Blood Feast, of their latest, impossible case, “this looks like one of those long hard ones.” “I know what you mean,” replies Pete’s captain (Scott H. Hall), as though registering, with a nod and a wink, the same sexual innuendo as the hepper…
In Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast (1963) a middle-class mother hires an Egyptian cultist to cater her daughter’s party, not realising that the exotic ‘blood feast’ he is offering involves cannibalistic sacrifice to the goddess Ishtar. If this plot sounds ridiculous, even throwaway, Lewis knew it, and even ended the film with a policeman at…
The Wizard of Gore first published by Film4 Synopsis: Jeremy Kasten remakes and updates Herschell Gordon Lewis’ grimy Grand Guignol 1970 horror. Featuring Crispin Glover, Brad Dourif and Jeffrey Combs… Review: Having established his place at the more visceral end of exploitation cinema with Blood Feast (1963), Two Thousand Maniacs! (1964) and many other bloody, bikini-laden B-graders of the 1960s, in 1970 Herschell…