Flesh Feast

Director: Veronica
Studio: CineVu
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Above average sci-fi horror comedy
good fast pasced fun,
Great B Horror flick
Wow, pretty damn good!
Underrated horror movie

Feast (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Balthazar Getty , Henry Rollins , Navi Rawat , Judah Friedlander , and Josh Zuckerman
Director: John Gulager
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
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ASIN: B000GLL1U6
Release Date: 2006-10-17

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In need of some good old-fashioned gore? You'll find it by the bucketload in the low-budget monsterfest Feast, which arrives on DVD in an even bloodier unrated edition. The winning entry in the third season of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's reality series/talent contest Project Greenlight (Wes Craven is also on board as an advisor/producer), Feast is a wall-to-wall splatterthon that operates on an agreeably simple premise: A crew of motley characters is trapped in a remote location (in this case, a desert bar) by ravenous, flesh-eating monsters (here, a quartet of toothy and astoundingly fecund humanoids). The result? Lots of gruesome deaths and plenty of manic action, delivered with kinetic style by first-time feature director John Gulager. Not everything about Feast works--Gulager's drive is thwarted by the unfocused script, which favors smarmy dialogue over substance--but the effects are impressive, given the film's price tag, and the cast is incredibly game for the gory goings-on, with Krista Allen (Entourage), Judah Friedlander (30 Rock), Balthazar Getty (Alias), and Gulager's father, veteran actor Clu Gulager, among the stand-outs. The DVD includes a smattering of outtakes and deleted scenes (including an alternate ending); commentary by Gulager, the screenwriters, and two of the film's numerous producers; and a making-of featurette, which Project Greenlight viewers should find interesting solely for producers Chris Moore and Michael Leahy's attitudes towards Gulager (both were a hair's breath away from firing him throughout the production, but here, amusingly suggest unconditional support). -- Paul Gaita

Description

At a rural bar, a motley bunch of patrons struggle to survive a ravenous family of flying beasts bent on devouring every last one of them.

Customer Reviews:

Above average sci-fi horror comedy.......2007-07-05

Feast is an enjoyable sci-fi horror comedy romp. It is especially enjoyable considering the extremely low budget and use of a first-time director. The film features plenty of gore and a few funny lines. In addition, there are several babes to look at, inc. the gorgeous Krista Allen.

I'm not a big fan of all the super quick editing, but that is a popular trend, unfortunately.

A real good genre film that looks nice on HD DVD. The alternate audio lacks very much in the way of interesting insights about the film -- mostly there are like 5 guys being silly and joking around. The extras do feature some interesting clips about the competition that led to this film.

good fast pasced fun, .......2007-06-18

This one didnt spend much time on the big screen but is a great one for your collection.. gets off to a fast start, similar to Dusk till Dawn, but more realistic..set in a bar, you never get tired of being there due to good acting and quick witted dialog.

Great B Horror flick.......2007-06-17

This horror film has both the "scarey" and the "humorous" mixed all into one. What I found most funny is the monster's babies mate and then they eat what they have mated with. I just about fell off my chair laughing at this one. It also has a very scarey side and the feeling of being "trapped" in this film. Yes, there is alot of gore, the monsters look very good and the acting was excellent for this B horror flick. I recommend anyone that loves horror movies with a little humor.

Wow, pretty damn good!.......2007-06-12

Funny, gorey as hell with beautiful women and non stop action! Worth the buy, difinetly one to see again.

Underrated horror movie.......2007-05-23

I was pleasantly surprised by "Feast." After seeing a few episodes of "Project Greenlight," I expected this movie to be a mess. But it succeeds as an enthusiastic horror movie despite (or perhaps because of) the severe lack of money and time available, and the constant presence of "Project Greenlight" camera crews. Gulager put together a product that is definitely a B movie, but one that's head and shoulders above much higher-budgeted studio horror fare. It helps that the script, while imperfect, has some great moments, and that the actors are generally at least competent.

One real virtue of "Feast" is that it just keeps moving. At 85 minutes, you don't have time to stop and think about the plot holes too much. It's a rocket on rails from start to finish. One way "Feast" keeps moving is the unique way in which we "meet the meat." Some viewers will hate it. I liked it, myself; but that's purely a matter of taste. The first few minutes are entertaining and get a lot of the exposition out of the way fast.

"Feast" is at least worth a rent by horror fans.

Average customer rating:

Above average sci-fi horror comedy
good fast pasced fun,
Great B Horror flick
Wow, pretty damn good!
Underrated horror movie

Feast (Unrated) [HD DVD]
Starring: Clu Gulager , Balthazar Getty , Eileen Ryan , Duane Whitaker , and Henry Rollins
Director: John Gulager
Manufacturer: Weinstein Company
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ASIN: B000N3AXPG
Release Date: 2007-04-17

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Description

At a rural bar, a motley bunch of patrons struggle to survive a ravenous family of flying beasts bent on devouring every last one of them.

Customer Reviews:

Above average sci-fi horror comedy.......2007-07-05

good fast pasced fun, .......2007-06-18

Great B Horror flick.......2007-06-17

Wow, pretty damn good!.......2007-06-12

Funny, gorey as hell with beautiful women and non stop action! Worth the buy, difinetly one to see again.

Underrated horror movie.......2007-05-23

Average customer rating:

5 Stars, But With Mixed Feelings
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Flesh Feast (4pc)
Starring: Deborah Walley , Paul Carr , David G. Cannon , Marvin Kaplan , and John Crawford
Director: Thomas S. Alderman , Sergio Martino , and Del Tenney
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ASIN: B00006CXG7
Release Date: 2002-08-06

Customer Reviews:

5 Stars, But With Mixed Feelings.......2003-05-26

I was tempted to give this collection 1 star for its inclusion of one truly offensive film with no redeeming qualities, but it is still an extremely worthwhile collection for those on a budget for other reasons.

The two films which make this collection worthwhile for people on a budget are "I Eat Your Skin" and "The Undertaker and His Pals". Both are fun films, and the picture quality for both films as found in this collection are about as good as they'll ever get.

THE UNDERTAKER... is a fun black comedy about two j.d.'s who run a diner who team up with a crooked undertaker in a scheme to cook up business. They murder people, the diner gets some free meat, and the undertaker gets bodies he can bury while charging large reconstructive cosmetics fees to the deceaseds' relatives. Extremely low brow satire, but better than any of the Evil Dead films. H. Gordon Lewis style gore with laughs.

I EAT YOUR SKIN is for fans of bad but fun old movies. A scientist is forced to create zombies for a power hungry island landowner. Lots of bad makeup and PRC/Monogram style low-budget horror. No gore in this one despite the title (which was slapped onto the film in the 1970s when it became part of a double bill with I Drink Your Blood), but who needs that for a good time?

THE SEVERED ARM (described in detail in another review) was too long for my taste. It has a great set up and ending, but the middle drags. This is quite unfortunate given the film's great potential. I'd love to see The Severed Arm released with some excess fat removed and cleaned up for easier digestion (Sorry. I couldn't avoid the temptation).

SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD has all the elements of your typical 1970s/early 1980s Italian cannibal film: 1) stupid people wander off into the jungle; 2) argue with each other for a boring hour and a half while various animals get killed for real; until 3) they run into a bunch of cannibals who kill most of them off while the audience cheers. Unlike some people, I don't think nature is a happy fun land where animals live together in peace and eat nothing but marshmallows and ice cream, nor do I have any illusions over where the meat on my plate comes from, but neither do I find it necessary for a film which is supposed to be entertaining to dwell at such great length on scenes of animals killing each other. Sure, when you are filming in the jungle you are presented with opportunities to capture such things on camera and use it to help establish the setting of the film. This has not coloured my opinion of other similar films. But here, e.g., you have one scene of a monkey being killed very slowly by a snake which goes on forever and in graphic detail to the point of complete tastelessness, and in one truly offensive scene natives cut apart an iguana while keeping it alive as long as possible. This is just plain unnecessary cruelty. Resorting to such immature shock tactics does not serve to salvage this film's poor attempt at a story. This is not daring art making some grand statement; it is just people unable to elicit any reaction but boredom without stooping to the lowest depths.

For those who, like me, don't want to own a DVD with scenes of deliberately staged animal cruelty (as distinguished from acts of nature) "The Undertaker and His Pals" is also available solo in a great copy from VCI, and "I Eat Your Skin" is available from Something Weird as a second feature to "The Child" along with some great shorts. The tradeoff is that you'll be paying more and will miss out on "The Severed Arm".

slave of the cannibal god - flesh feast.......2002-12-25

I was very disturbed by the movie "Slave of the Cannibal God". There are great deal of scenes in which animals are placed in scenes together and filmed fighting to the death. Most disturbing was a scene early in the film in which a monkey is being eaten alive by a snake. I threw my copy of this movie away and suggest others do the same. I am a fan a horror movies but this is an example of trash and animal cruelty.

Teaching Your Zombies Table Manners By Keeping Humans Away.......2002-11-30

While I'm not going to profess that this DVD set, a four-part collection containing I Eat Your Skin, The Severed Arm, Slave to the Cannibal God (only the rated -R version), and The Undertaker and his Pals, is stunning in the fields of picture quality (unless you're one of those people who believes everyone should have a little grain in their diet), I will say that it is admirable for its price and well worth purchasing. Also, while I won't go into great detail on all of the movies contained here (I have on other reviews which can readily be found), I will go into more detail about one, The Severed Arm, because the only way to really find this piece is in collections such as this one.

The movies are:
Slave of the Cannibal God, a gruesome little piece revolving around the dubiously enchanting Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her strangely Germanic brother Arthur as they head for South America in search of her long lost, and presumably deceased, explorer/husband. Once there, they enlist the help of the, weird Dr. Edward Foster and find that their destination isn't in the jungle, but is instead on an island teeming with mystery - and underfed cannibals. Unfortunately this isn't the uncut version, but its still pretty graphically appealing.

I Eat Your Skin is something of a blast from the past, taking its audience back to a place where the zombie movement in films was just beginning and when it was fine to blame everything on the strangely exotic practices of Voodoo. Its plot hinges around a cancer researcher stationed on a Caribbean Island that discovers, quite to his dismay, that by treating the natives with snake venom he can turn them into bug-eyed zombies. Not at all interested in this, he is unfortunately forced to use this information to create something after my own heart, an army of (unfortunately tame) zombies to conquer the world. I found this fairly entertaining to watch because the translations of the Voodoo ceremonies, with the people writing around as a priest and priestess dance banally around a fire while sprinkling ceremonial dust about and waiting for a bit of human sacrifice, is so cliche. Sadly, though, the zombies here do everything but eat skin, and I can't truly recall a scene where any skin was lost (a head, but no skin).

The Undertaker and His Pals is one of the more comedic portions of this collection, hinging on the practice that an undertaker and his two restaurant-owning pals are into, one of killing people for profit in their own individual ways. The undertaker makes his money by burying the dead while berating his clientele while his friends use parts of the victim's bodies (i.e., leg of Lamb from a Ms. Lamb) for their specials of the day. Loaded with a lot of humor, this B-movie was something of a jovial surprise to find hiding in this collection and is highly recommended.

The Severed Arm, one of the best pieces in the set, begins with one of our main characters receiving something alarming in the mail - a nice looking box! - o, and a left arm inside. Instead of going to the police about this, however, he instead goes to a doctor friend of his who relapses into a flashback that explains everything in a sickly humorous fashion. These two, along with three others, had been exploring a cave when a bumbling mishap lead to a cave-in and they found themselves trapped. In order to ward off starvation, the five decide (actually, only a few decide and the rest are bullied) into drawing straws to see who will lose a limb so that everyone can lives. The loser, distraught, begs for a few more hours, receives only a fraction of these before his arm is cut off, and then is greeted by the cruelest "hand" that fate can deal him. Before anyone even has the chance to dig into that succulently uncooked morsel, they hear the knocking of rescuers that have found them and are attempting to dig them out. Fearful of jail time, the four men band together and say that the arm was crushed in a cave-in and then amputated and rebut the claims of narrowly averted cannibalism with claims of fever-wrought delirium that has stricken their companion. Before being halled off, however, our now one-armed spelunker swears vengeance. Five years after the fact it looks like he might be coming for it, too, for, one by one, the four are assaulted and their left arms are liberated, leading to an ending that is so beautifully cruel that I had to watch the whole thing over and over again with a smile.

Description

Get ready to monkey around with this smorgasbord of monsters and maidens, Something Weird-style! In Night of the Bloody Apes, a sex-crazed ape man looking for love (thanks to open heart surgery) tangles with the police and female wrestlers, while a crackpot, syringe-wielding maniac in a monster mask indulges in his own South American Feast of Flesh! Then have a double helping of prehistoric monkey business with The Mighty Gorga and One Million AC/DC, and head to the monster-filled nudist camps of The Beast that Killed Women and The Monster of Camp Sunshine where bathing beauties are menaced by clutching creatures from beyond! Plus you'll get a Bonus Fourth DVD packed with trailers from the outrageous Something Weird collection!

Customer Reviews:

Oh God!.......2003-04-27

This is quite possibly the best box set deal of the year! All of the films are great, if you like bad drive-in fare, which i love! The extras really make this worth while! About and hour and a half of trailers, 2 hours of shorts, drive-in intemission spots and comic and poster art with music from the great horror surf band, The Dead Elvi! ... Buy now or be forever sorry! p.s.- the movies offered are 25 dollars each , so yopu are getting 75 dollars worht of moives for like, 40 bucks off, plus the disc of trailers and full color booklets for each film! Awesome, totally awesome!

Average customer rating:

Living Actors Used For The Most Vile Film Ever Made!
Hysterical Bad-Film Gem Marred By DVD's Most Horrid Transfer
Worth a watch

Flesh Feast
Director: Veronica
Manufacturer: CineVu
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ASIN: B00005B63K
Release Date: 2001-03-15

Customer Reviews:

Living Actors Used For The Most Vile Film Ever Made!.......2005-09-23

In the 1940s, Veronica Lake made a meteoric rise to film stardom, thanks to her sultry beauty and, her highly exploited "peekaboo" hairstyle. She starred opposite big names like Alan Ladd and Fredric March, scoring screen successes in films like "This Gun For Hire" and "I Married A Witch". She held her own with female stars as well, and she surprised even her detractors with her performance as a bitter navy nurse in "So Proudly We Hail". But changing times and her own failings caught up with her, and by the end of the decade, her heyday was over. With two unsuccessful marriages behind her (and two more in her future) Veronica headed for New York City, where she made occasional television and summer stock appearances before dropping completely out of sight. It was briefly big news when she was found working as a barmaid in a second rate hotel in the early sixties. But by now, her longtime alcoholism and years of hard living had robbed her of her looks. Without them, public interest in her soon faded again. She did return to the stage in assorted vehicles, but her success was minimal. Eventually, she relocated to Miami, Florida, where she lived in relative obscurity. In 1966 she went to Canada for a part in an obscure movie called "Footsteps In The Snow" which had no U.S. release. The following year, she was discovered by some industrial filmmakers who had long wanted to produce a commercial feature. They approached her to star in their film "Time Is Terror" and convinced her to invest in the project. As one author put it, "If ever a movie queen suffered a terminal comedown, this was it". Surrounded by amateur performers and pathetic production values, she failed even to rise to a minimal level in this Miami, Florida shot quickie. Looking utterly ordinary in long shots, and luridly aged in close-ups, poor Veronica didn't act so much as walk through her part. As a deranged doctor, who has hit upon a successful youth restoration formula, using flesh-eating maggots!, she looks both bored and confused, her most unintentionally hilarious moment coming when she is forced to ad-lib while she struggles gamefully to don a pair of rubber gloves. The supporting cast is no help at all, merely advancing the plot by talking it to death. Director Brad Grinter apparently only required the actors to move while the camera was pointed at them, no need for anything resembling entertainment. According to Veronica herself, the film was shelved for three years because no master shots were filmed. But in 1970, the production company scraped it together, changed the title to "Flesh Feast", and released it to cash in on Lake's just published biography. And, because former leading ladies such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Olivia De Havilland had unexpectedly revived their careers in horror movies, this travesty was promoted as Veronica's "comeback film". This seems a strange course of action for the filmmakers to pursue, though, because it's unlikely that the (young) audience for a horror film of this quality either knew or cared who Veronica Lake was. As expected, it did nothing for Veronica's career, and she died in poverty, three years later. A previous reviewer cites a scene in which a female detective working undercover as a nurse in the doctor's laboratory (overseeing the theft of bodies from a nearby morgue) enlists the help of a multi-talented chauffeur to cut up the body parts. "Poor Mrs. Lustig," she sighs, "I hope she doesn't mind leaving her body to science." "Try not to think about it," advises the chauffeur, sawing away. "I guess you are right, Hans." concludes the detective/nurse, "What is done is done." What a sad end to the career of a still fondly remembered star. [phillindholm]

Hysterical Bad-Film Gem Marred By DVD's Most Horrid Transfer.......2005-05-22

I was excited to see that this perverse, doofy vanity film, Veronica Lake's feeble attempt to enter the Joan Crawford horror sweepstakes, was out on DVD. That is, until I got home with it and saw the picture, er, quality. ECCHHHHHH!!!!

This has to be THE WORST LOOKING DVD in DVD history, to date. It looks as if it were badly videotaped off a TV station's antiquated film-chain system, and then, only after that videotape was duped once, twice, thrice was it committed to the digital realm.

It's even out of frame. At the bottom of the picture is a little sliver of the TOP of the picture.

If you can get past this visual assault, you're in for a demented, campy cheap-film treat. Shot in South Florida (which automatically makes any '60s Z-movie worth watching, IMHO), this amateurish effort transcends taste, logic, art and structure. I consider it to be the final gem of the cycle of low-grade horror/SF that started in the early '50s and stretched to roughly 1970.

Many quotable lines of dialogue, atmosphere that suggests a screwed-up episode of THE LUCY SHOW, some cheesy library music, and Lake's strident but appealing final performance: this crap-film's got it goin' on.

I hope someone (Criterion? ;D) will give this film the TLC it needs, and that one day we'll have a crisp, clear version of this demented gem to view.

Worth a watch.......2003-11-03

Only if you're a Veronica Lake fan will you have any interest in this movie, which was her last. She has the lead role, and plays a scientist who experiments with maggots. For a DVD transfer, it was just awful. Smudges and particles litter the screen and the colors weren't that good. I was interested in seeing an old Veronica Lake, because I have heard rumors she became a big alcoholic and her looks faded and her teeth fell out. Those rumors were SOOOO exaggerated. She looked perfectly fine to me, and she DOES have her own teeth! This isn't one I would watch over and over, and I would suggest ONLY buying from a Marketplace Seller for a few bucks; not really worth $20, but if you're a Lake fan you'll want it. And no, it wasn't THAT bad like people say.

Blood Feast 2 - All U Can Eat (Special Edition)

Average customer rating:

Not Classic HGL...
Herschell is back for more!
In the R version, more funny than gorey!
I'm Full
Blood, Blood , & more Blood

Blood Feast 2 - All U Can Eat (Special Edition)
Starring: John McConnell , Mark McLachlan , Melissa Morgan , Toni Wynne , and J.P. Delahoussaye
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
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ASIN: B00009EIRH
Release Date: 2003-08-19

Customer Reviews:

Not Classic HGL..........2006-12-27

I wanted to like this movie because I like HGL in interviews, I love his commentaries on his older DVD's, and I like horror. Campy horror is okay, exploitation films are great, gore is fine by me. Sadly, I cannot recommend this movie. The good? Well, this is the type of film where women decide to have a "lingere shower" prior to a wedding and model said lingere for each other. More nudity than you can shake a stick at. The bad? Most everything else. The jokes are occasionally funny, but mostly just terribly unfunny. The acting is miserable because it seems intentionally bad (one of the hallmarks of a good bad movie is that it wants to be good). Fuad Ramses III is cringe-inducing; the music is over used and too campy; the script is closer to "Hell Asylum" than "2,000 Maniacs." If you like gore flicks, stick with the original.

Herschell is back for more!.......2006-08-09

Blood Feast 2 finds Herschell Gordon Lewis returning to the genre that brought him the most recognition - the splatter film. A lot of things have changed in the 39 years since the original Blood Feast (1963), but the essences remains. Blood Feast was widely influential in its time. Many directors followed Lewis' lead using exploitative gore to various degrees of success. However, with Blood Feast 2 (2002), Herschell is no longer the innovator. Where films such as 2000 Maniacs, She Devils on Wheels, and the Gore Gore Girls forged new paths in the 60s, There are two new generations of horror directors working today from John Carpenter and George Romero to Takashi Miike and Eli Roth and this is reflected in Blood Feast 2. The film contains countless references to other films such as Halloween and Fritz Lang's M. It even references the electric knife from The Gruesome Twosome!

Herschell Gordon Lewis is proud of his oeuvre, as he has stated in many interviews and commentaries, but he also knows that his films are not "high art". A number of factors such as time, money, personnel gave his films a special cheesy look. I was interested to see if the results would change now that Lewis has a bigger budget, more time, and a fair amount of celebrity. I'm happy to report that the film still feels as though it were finished in about five days. The camera work is in focus (as Herschell always insisted), but that's about all that can be said for it. The sound recording ranges from moderate to very poor. Some parts have such obvious dubbing that it seems almost intentional. The color isn't too bad, but the film looks cheap and a little grainy. This, however, could be the fault of Media Blasters who do a consistently terrible job of producing DVDs.

The acting is as terrible as ever. It's not always apparent whether the actors are trying to be cheesy or not. It's hard to believe that so many talentless individuals could be gathered to appear in one single movie. This results in many many laughs. There's nothing funnier than an actor tripping over the punch-line of a joke that is itself so bad it that it hurts. Characters, their motivations, and their temperaments can turn on a dime. One minute the young detective is bullying his secretary, the next minute he's cracking jokes. There are some wonderfully over-the-top moments featuring character actors being silly - Herschell is not above resorting to slapstick humor if necessary. There are even a few cameos by John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble etc.), David Friedman (Lewis' partner in crime), and others.

The big draw is of course the gore, of which there is plenty. It's not so constant that it becomes tiresome, but rather is interspersed throughout the film. It's most similar to Wizard of Gore - lots of digging around torsos and such. The gore is no more convincing than it ever was. When Faud III is digging eyeballs out of a corpse, it looks as much like a dummy as the earlier films.

Overall, there is a lot here to interest the rabid HGL fan. If you've seen all of his movies, listened to the commentaries, and read the books about his work, Blood Feast 2 is incredibly rich. There were more little inside jokes than I could count. Herschell went all out with the puns for this one. There are some terrible, awful jokes that make your eyes roll right out of their sockets.

The best part of Blood Feast 2 is that it's consistently bad, but never dull. Lewis directed some steaming piles that drag on and on (Monster A-Go-Go springs to mind), but this has nice pacing through and through. There aren't any moments of obvious filler as in The Gruesome Twosome - everything seen is justified. Well, as much as a gratuitous lingerie party featuring five "model/actressess" can be justified!

The down side is the DVD production (lack of) quality. Media Blasters should be simultaneously thanked for releasing titles that are guaranteed to be poor sellers and scolded for putting out such shoddy releases. The video quality is substandard. There are some interesting special features (especially on the Special Edition), but some aren't even worth messing with because the quality is so bad. Disc one features a photo gallery of HGL and company that is so pixelated that one must wonder how much work went into making this "Special Edition". Complaining is probably useless because few others would want to touch this project, but Media Blasters should take a look at Cult Epics, Synapse, and even Criterion.

Aside from the poor video quality, the extras are pretty lame. The special edition comes with a second disc that contains about twenty minutes of video - TOTAL. There's an "on the set with HGL" where we get to see Herschell talk about how a camera is going to come down a flight of stairs. Wow. There's a "behind the scenes with the cast and crew" where a guy goes around to various people asking what they do. Amazingly, literally 80% say "nothing" or "I don't do anything" and the other 20% are actresses. There's a "behind the gore" feature that's an amazing minute and forty seconds of an actor cutting off a head and then digging through a skull. Finally, there are three deleted scenes which are uniformly dull. These extras are pathetic. The original price of $35 is beyond obscene! I wouldn't even recommend the special edition to anyone. The movie itself is the *only* good thing about this package. The extras will disappoint you - they're worthless. I think the presence of an extra disc for the "special edition" is a sneaky move on the part of Media Blasters to trick consumers into thinking that they're something of substance to be found. Certain they could have fit these twenty minutes onto the movie DVD, especially considering the video quality that they found acceptable. Don't be fooled.

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat is a great film from a true innovator. It's constantly entertaining, campy, and always funny. Don't bother with the two disc set though. There's nothing there.

In the R version, more funny than gorey!.......2006-05-08

I first saw the R rated version of this that had about 6 minutes of gore cut, resulting in this tame version to have little gore. Still, I liked this movie! The gore level was low but this movie redeemed itself with its comedy and sexy scenes!!! This still was a hell of a good film even without the gore! Later I bought the unrated uncut version which is the orgiinal film with all 6 minutes of gore put back. It still basically is the same movie with or without the gore, but the unrated movie just featured extended scenes of unneeded storyless torture, violence, disembowlment and even more that was kinda fake looking,but still at a gross out level. I liked this movie with or without the gore, but for those gore hounds out there, check out the unrated version, cause this has wall to wall with gore!!

I'm Full.......2006-03-07

I have nothing against "camp": camp can be funny, camp can be entertaining. I have nothing against "schlock"; it has its place in cheap horror films, too.

But I had no idea what kind of garbage I was about to see when I watched Blood Feast 2 - All U Can Eat. Someone needs to tell the, uh, "director" a/k/a Herschell Gordon Lewis that his special effects used in his original Blood Feast might have scared a 10-year old then. In 2006, well, it's pretty pitiful when you recycle the same old garbage--and come up with worse trash.

I am not going to tell anything about the storyline because, well, you have to have a storyline first. All this movie entails is "dialogue; gruesome scene; dialogue; gruesome scene; dialogue/nakedness/then gruesome scene. To borrow a phrase uttered by Beavis and Butthead, "these effects aren't very special". That phrase sums up this lame attempt at movie making. If I could give this "zero" stars, I would.

Don't waste your time or your money. This is probably the WORST movie I've ever seen.

Blood, Blood , & more Blood.......2005-09-05

This one is full of great speacial effects done by the sick-o they call Joe Castro!!!!!His Effects could make any dumb movie ROCK!!!Great plot and very suprised that Herschell Gordon Lewis still had it in him to squezee out one more...

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Not Classic HGL...
Herschell is back for more!
In the R version, more funny than gorey!
I'm Full
Blood, Blood , & more Blood

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat
Starring: John McConnell , Mark McLachlan , Melissa Morgan , Toni Wynne , and J.P. Delahoussaye
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
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ASIN: B000095J2Q
Release Date: 2003-07-29

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From the godfather of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis, comes the most eagerly awaited sequel in the annals of splatter cinema! The cannibal caterer is back with a new recipe for gross-out, comedic carnage that literally blows chunks across the silver screen! From the groundbreaking production team of H.G. Lewis and David Friedman, the maniacal masterminds responsible for Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs, and Color Me Blood Red, Blood Feast 2 is a gorehound's wet dream!

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Not Classic HGL..........2006-12-27

Herschell is back for more!.......2006-08-09

In the R version, more funny than gorey!.......2006-05-08

I'm Full.......2006-03-07

Blood, Blood , & more Blood.......2005-09-05

Night of the Bloody Apes / Feast of Flesh

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A double dose of dubbed south of the border horror flicks
Night of the man in an ape mask
Blood and Gore Galore!
Mexican horror double feature, extra queso por favor!

Night of the Bloody Apes / Feast of Flesh
Starring: Gerardo Cepeda , Juan Fava , Norma Lazareno , Carlos López Moctezuma , and Agustín Martínez Solares (II)
Director: René Cardona , and Jerald Intrator
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ASIN: B00006FMC2
Release Date: 2002-09-24

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Night of the Bloody Apes (1972, 84 min.) - It's a sex-crazed monkey man looking for love! Informed that son Julio will die of heart disease, Dr. Krellman does what any good mad doctor would do: give Julio the heart of a gorilla. Oops. Somehow the frail young man turns into a "horrible half beast, half man" with a muscleman's body and a monkey's face (sort of), embarking on a hilarious frenzy of over-the-top gore and gratuitous nudity as he attacks women and mutilates men. Daddy then surgically swaps Julio's simian heart with one taken from, yes, a female wrestler. Double oops. With eye-popping footage of an open-heart surgery and periodic wallowing in women's wrestling, "Night of the Bloody Apes" is a cockamamie cult fave so berserk it's brilliant. "Feast of Flesh" (1967, 70 min.) - A crackpot sadist with a monster mask and claws stabs people with syringes and transforms women into zonked-out love slaves, making the swingers of a South American beach resort into his very own Feast of Flesh. Also known as "The Deadly Organ," it's more twisted madness from the director of "The Curious Dr. Humpp!"

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A double dose of dubbed south of the border horror flicks.......2005-03-20

This Something Weird double feature asks a question that has troubled science for some time: if you were to take the heart of a gorilla and transplant it into the heart of a young man suffering from leukemia what would happen? (a) He would lead a normal, productive life; (b) He would die because of tissue incompatibility; (c) He would suffer severe brain damage because the transplanted heart would not be up to the task; or (d) He would become a monster who kills men and rips the clothes off of women. If you said (d) you would be correct, especially if you explained that because the gorilla's heart was so strong if would cause a transformation whereby the young man's head would become ape like while the rest of him still looked human, but really bulked up (which would facilitate the aforementioned killing and ripping). Anyhow, that is the "science" behind the 1968 Mexican flick "Night of the Bloody Apes" ("La Horripilante bestia humana," which would be "The Grisly Human Beast" instead of "La noche de los Monos Sangrientos") although, to be perfectly clear, there is only one ape who over several nights makes a lot of other people bloody (we know this will be film with lots of blood because red paint is poured throughout the opening credits).

This strange chain of events begins when Lucy Ossorio (Norman Lazareno), a masked female wrestler who dresses up like a devil throws her opponent out of the ring and into the hospital. Meanwhile, Dr. Krallman (José Elías Moreno) learns his son, Julio (Agustín Martínez Solares) is dying. So the doctor and his faithful servant, Goyo (Carlos López Moctezuma), steal a gorilla and perform the operation (be prepared to see a heart cut out of a chest; twice, actually). This sounds like a good idea at the time, but then Julio's blood pressure causes his mutation into a wrestling with some sort of ape's head and he is begins his spree of killing and molesting. Krallman feels bad about this, so since Elena (Noelia Noel), the injured wrestling is going to end up a vegetable he transplants her heart into Julio. Meanwhile, Lucy keeps climbing back into the ring from time to time when she is not lying around naked talking to her police inspector boyfriend, Arturo Martinez (Armando Silvestre), who starts adding up the evidence and does not care how incredible his explanation seems to his superiors. When Lucy finds out what has been going on she comments, "Unfortunate. That's so sad," a final reminder that whoever wrote the English dialogue for this film is either intentionally bad or unintentionally funny, and then over the end title we get the pouring of more red paint. Apparently this is a remake of an earlier Rene Cardona film, "Doctor of Doom," with more blood and sex, but I cannot speak to the relative increase (but there is more blood than naked bodies and rarely a combination of the two). But this movie has gory special effects, naked women without tan lines, and incredibly bad dubbed dialogue, which makes it a triple threat B-movie.

After the first feature you can enjoy outtakes from the film, all set to dance hall music and most of which involve lots of fake blood, although the eyeball popping scene is the most interesting one, along with the apparently discarded notion of having the woman in the green dress run from the monster without her breast falling out of the aforementioned dress. You also get the trailers for several of these Something Weird combinations, the best of which is the reporter trying to interview weird people who sat through the double-bill of "Blood Splattered Bride" and "I Dismember Mama." There are also a whole bunch of trailers for movies most of which involve the word "flesh" in their title and which most of which are apparently not available for viewing, just to drive you crazy (who would not want to see a movie in which Veronica Lake asks the question, "Don't you like my little maggots?"). The exception here is "The Deadly Organ" which is really another name for the second feature, "Feast of Flesh." Too bad the trailer is at least twice as good as the movie.

Then there are the black & white short subjects, all of which are thematically related to the first feature. "Gorilla and the Maiden" offers a gum chewing, smiling, dancing blonde who then comes out dancing in a flimsy outfit and then is attacked by a guy in an ape suit who touches her when she faints and dances with her when she wakes up. When she is down to her bikini, well, let us just say you will not believe what comes next (but pasties are involved). Then there is "The World's Championship Women's Wrestling Contest," between Clara Mortensen, Champion of the World, and Rita Martinez, Champion of Mexico (commentary by Sam Hayes). "Artist's Paradise" is badly scratched footage of naked women bathing in a river only to be chased off by a gorilla. Finally, "White Gorilla" is about an English hunting part being attacked by Germans in the Congo. Meanwhile, there is a white gorilla who ends up chasing the young woman in the party through the jungle, until he finds a black gorilla to fight and we are back to the DVD's wrestling theme. Meanwhile, the plot looks more and more like a "King Kong" rip-off and the natives speak one of the most wretched faux African languages of all-time. There is also the "Ghastly Gallery of Ghoulish Comic Cover Art with Music by the Dead Elvi" for your viewing and listening enjoyment.

"They live to kill and kill to live" is apparently the tag line for "Feast of Flesh" ("Placer sangriento" which translates as "Bloody Pleasure" as opposed to "El banquete de Carne"), a film for which spare body parts were available free of charge at the box office of your friendly local theater. Actually, after seeing the trailer for this black & white 1967 film, I was rather interested in seeing any movie that offers a Phantom of the Opera-like character wearing a mask that makes him look like a Muppet version of Christopher Lee playing Frankenstein (specific enough for you?). But it turns out his "love drug" is just heroin, and the film consists more of Inspector Ernesto Lauria (Mauricio De Ferraris) and the cops investigating the string of murders rather than watching this guy inject his victims and then play his organ. You understand that these two plot lines are going to collide at some point, but it becomes hard to remember that fact for most of the film. Besides, I guessed who it was going to be from the credits so when the requisite backstory floated by it only confirmed my suspicion.

"Feast of Flesh" is from Argentina and director Emilio Vieyra, who prefers women to have tan lines and favors eroticism over outright nudity (think the "Wicked Game" music video). But this film is just too weird. We must be seeing this guy injecting these women the second (or last) time he does so, because otherwise there is no reason for them to be so amorous towards such a weird looking cat. We are having enough trouble figuring out what he is doing let along be concerned with who is doing it. Fortunately, the fiend insists on playing the same music over and over again, thereby providing Lauria with a key clue (apparently driving a Porsch did not help narrow down the suspects). To keep his identity secret, he nevre talks until the climax of the film. Unfortunately, half way through this little blemmish pops up on the top of the screen and starts to drive you crazy. The result is a few visually interesting moments trying to make up for the lethargy of the police investigation (they watch this guy kill his final victim, their "guinea pig," using his telltale injection of heroin right into the heart).

So that would be 4 stars for "Night of the Bloody Apes," 2.5 stars for "Feast of Flesh," and 4.5 stars for the DVD extras. Take the .5 from the 4.5 and add it to the 2.5 to make it a 3 and that gives us two 4s and a 3, so we round up and call it a night. The Easter Eggs are on the main menu once you click on "Special Features." Go left for the trailer for another one of Vieyra's films, the better known and much more highly regard (believe it or not) "The Curious Dr. Humpp." Go right for a clip on the "Gorilla Woman." Anyhow, be sure to join us next Saturday night when we watch a comedy combo, "Dracula: Dirty Old Man" and "What Happened to Count Dracula?"

Night of the man in an ape mask.......2004-11-07

Another of those lovely 70's Video nasties that were banned in the UK in the early 80's and watching this today you gotta wonder why? Man in Ape mask goes round raping and killing young ladies, a sub-plot involving a female wrestler and one has to say the worst scalping ever commited to celluloid (It's a wig god damn it!!) all of this in mind the film is hilarious in every department, the only contentious scenes are those of real life heart surgery which if you've ever watched ER will come as no surprise or shock to anyone and the whole film is so deliciously camp, how this ever got viewed as being depraved and shocking is lost on me. Apparently theres a xxx version made for mexican porno theatres floating around but i have yet spoken or heard of anyone thats actually seen it. This is the most complete version available and if like myself your an avid horror historian or just want to have a good giggle my advice is buy the dvd then seek professional help. Happy monkey-ing.

Blood and Gore Galore!.......2004-10-04

Night of the Bloody Apes is a ham-fistedly made concoction of sex, wrestling, gorillas and gore with footage of actual open-heart surgery tossed in for good measure. Making a long story short, Dr. Krellman replaces the bad heart of his son Julio with that of a gorilla. The primate's heart proves to be too "powerful" and transforms our boy into a rampaging ape-like thing. The good doctor, realizing his folly, then replaces the damnable organ with the heart of a female masked wrestler. I had high hopes at this point that Julio would change into a transgender-masked-wrestling-ape-like thing, but regrettably we only get to look at the silly chimp get-up some more.

As a monkey-man Julio terrorizes the city, raping women and disemboweling men. Not a banana in sight, so blood and intestines will have to do. Giving in to the idea that all gorilla movies are spawned from King Kong, director Cardona deliberately carries out a similar fate and finale atop a lofty structure mid-city (sans the airplanes and helicopters - no money for that!). Julio the beast is brought down by gunfire, our heroine is returned safely to her boyfriend and all is well, the happiest of the happy.

Night of the Bloody Apes is less than compelling in the narrative department and even a might dull in places. The lengthy trailer would be plenty for most but I'm a glutton for punishment and only the full 84 minutes will suffice. While shoddy and ill-paced, `Apes attempts to make up for its short-comings by bombarding the viewer with its bevy of (un) redeemable qualities: gobs of make-shift gore, nudity and wrestling all interspersed with a deadpan delivery that approaches the surreal, perfect for those late night viewings, in a bewildering sort of way.

`Apes was lensed in 1968 by Rene Cardona as a vile send-up of his very own Doctor of Doom from 1962. The film houses an arsenal of alternate titles including: Gomar The Human Gorilla, La Horriplante Bestia Humana and Horror Y Sexo but was eventually christened Night of the Bloody Apes and dumped on the American drive-in circuit.

-Christopher Curry

Mexican horror double feature, extra queso por favor!.......2004-09-09

Chiller Theatre and Something Weird video got together to do this kick-butt combo of two absurd Mexican horror movies from the late 60's. Both are very low-budget campfests with moments of brutality and weirdness that will appeal to depraved horror addicts like myself.

I remember Night of the Bloody Apes from video rental days (sheds sentimental tear). A doctor transplants the heart of a gorilla into his son's chest to save him from a disease, and guess what? His son Julio turns into a monkey-faced maniac who rampages the Mexican streets attacking people, especially voluptuous women. This film will satisfy even the most jaded sleazemonger, delivering some extreme (for the time) gore scenes and some nudity, and, of course, tons of ridiculous dubbed dialogue. Great party movie, especially considering you get (deep breath) Mexican lady wrestling as well! If that doesn't convince you, consider the fact that the heart transplant scenes feature actual surgery scenes inserted in a gratuitous, amateurish manner, and WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??! GET IT!!!

Next, we are blessed with the black & white Feast of Flesh, another Mexican horror film clocking in at a tight 70 minutes. There's no wasted time here as a masked psycho tears the clothes off of women and stabs them with syringes. The hip young people in the film dance to cool tunes, wonder who the killer is, dance to cool tunes, go the beach, dance to cool tunes...at one point, right after finding a body, a couple says a couple worried lines about the killings, and the next second is TWISTIN' THE NIGHT AWAY TO COOL TUNES!! Picture the Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies, in black and white, in Mexico, with some stripper-style partial nudity, an LSD scene, a masked maniac, a cliche flaming gay guy, a cliche tough lesbian girl, and you've got a pretty good concept of the cinematic miracle that is Feast of Flesh.

If the movies themselves weren't enough, Something Weird rewards us rabid freaks with the usual cornucopia of extras. You get the double feature theatrical trailer and TV spots along with The Deadly Organ trailer and TV spots. In case you were wondering, sickos, The Deadly Organ was the alternate title for Feast of Flesh...BECAUSE THE MASKED KILLER PLAYED ORGAN MUSIC! Not what you were thinking, I'm sure. Anyhoo, you also get gore outtakes from Bloody Apes, trailers for Blood Splattered Bride & I Dismember Mama, Carnival of Blood & Curse of the Headless Horseman, Face of the Screaming Werewolf, The Flesh Eaters, Flesh Feast, Invasion of the Flesh Hunters (AKA Cannibal Apocalypse), Shiver Shudder Show, Tender Flesh, and Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory & Corridors of Blood. Watching these trailers back to back is the abbreviated "crack cocaine" version of these drive-in/grindhouse classics, with ridiculous voice-overs; the double-feature trailers were utter horror/sleaze madness. Not recommended for those with weak hearts. But WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Four short subjects: Gorilla and the Maiden (ape meets stripper), Artist's Paradise (1920's ape meets nude women), White Gorilla (ape vs. ape) and The World Championship Women's Wrestling Contest (self-explanatory). Ramming it all home is a horror comic cover art gallery with psychobilly-ish music by the Dead Elvi.

If you're a B-horror fan, you probably already have this DVD. If not, you know what you must do. This stuff is aged like a vintage wine, or more like fine cheese....bwahahahahah.

Inmu 2 Fruit Flesh Feast of Shame Vol 1 - 1st Night & 2nd Night

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Inmu 2 Fruit Flesh Feast of Shame Vol 1 - 1st Night & 2nd Night

Manufacturer: NuTech
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Anime Photo Gallery
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Interactive Menus

ASIN: B000PBNE5M

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First Night - Illusion Second NIght - Excessive Love

Average customer rating:

Not Classic HGL...
Herschell is back for more!
In the R version, more funny than gorey!
I'm Full
Blood, Blood , & more Blood

Blood Feast 2 - All You Can Eat
Starring: John McConnell , Mark McLachlan , Melissa Morgan , Toni Wynne , and J.P. Delahoussaye
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Manufacturer: Shriek Show
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Blood Feast
Two Thousand Maniacs
Color Me Blood Red
The Herschell Gordon Lewis Collection (The Gore Gore Girls / A Taste of Blood / She-Devils on Wheels / The Gruesome Twosome / The Wizard of Gore / Something Weird)
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ASIN: B00009EIRF
Release Date: 2003-07-29

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Customer Reviews:

Not Classic HGL..........2006-12-27

Herschell is back for more!.......2006-08-09

In the R version, more funny than gorey!.......2006-05-08

I'm Full.......2006-03-07

Blood, Blood , & more Blood.......2005-09-05

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