Blood Feast 2 - All You Can Eat

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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!

Customer Reviews:

Blood Feast: B30.......2007-09-01

Herschell Gordon Lewis may have directed Blood feast 2, but he really doesn't consider it one of his films. The reason for this is because he was pretty much a hired-on director for the film; It wasn't his script, the whole idea had been put together and planned out before he even came on board. In fact, the film was all edited, cut and released without Lewis even seeing it! Lewis knew what he was getting into, but he took on this project because he had the itch to make a movie again. Hell, he'd had that itch for quite a few years and when he was approached with a treatment for Blood Feast 2, he happily accepted. He did have fun shooting the film though. Regardless of Lewis' lack of final cut, this movie is pretty fun. It's pretty much what you'd expect one of his films to look like in the 21st century. The acting hasn't improved(or Lewis won't allow it to), the gore is still plentiful and of varying degrees of quality, and it's all still done for laughs, maybe moreso in this film than any of his others. The film is very low budget, yet it looks higher budgeted than any of his previous films. The plot of Blood Feast 2 has the grandson of the killer from the first film inheriting his grandfather's catering business. The new and younger Fuad Ramses decides to set up shop and run his catering business, but he quickly falls under the spell of that evil goddess, Ishtar, and soon he's out collecting those body parts for a brand new blood feast to resurrect the goddess. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wedding reception he's hired to cater. Soon the bridesmaids are becoming ingredients for the feast. Two detectives are hot on the case, one of them is the son of the detective from the first film. Essentially, it's a rehashing of Blood feast, you could almost call it a remake. Lewis piles on the gore, which like his later films, consist of many shots of hands digging in bellies/torsos, pulling out organs and squeezing them and playing with them. And people thought Lucio Fulci lingered on gore shots!! The gore scenes are accompanied by music from rockabilly/surf band Southern Culture On The Skids, giving the scenes a goofy yet different feel from the organ and jazz music we used to hear in the gore scenes in Lewis' older films. I found this movie to be quite funny. It's full of bad puns(which I love), cartoony slapstick and sometimes clever exchanges, usually between Ramses and the detectives. The detectives are a hoot. While Blood Feast 2 may not break the ground that Lewis' films did years earlier, it's a nice throwback to those good ol days, and shows that 30+ years out of the director's chair hasn't hindered Lewis one bit. Lets just hope he gets the urge to do this a bit more often.

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.

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