Well, it’s been said that ‘Blood Feast’ was the first gore movie of all time. I’m not going to dispute that, as I haven’t seen any before its release date of 1963. What can not be disputed by anybody is that the film had an incredible influence on the horror/gore/cult film genre.

That’s admirable. Without ‘Blood Feast’ and the other early gore films of HG Lewis, we may not have had the great movies by the likes of Romero, Argento and Fulci, and those are some of the best horror films of all time.

However, other than the gore, ‘Blood Feast’ really has nothing going for it as far as I’m concerned. The storyline involves an Egyptian man who believes in an ancient cult and goes around killing young women and the police force’s efforts to catch the killer. That’s the whole story.

Quite often an absence of a storyline and bad acting can help, not hinder a film, as seen in another cult classic released just two years after ‘Blood Feast’, ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’.

In conclusion, basically, if you are a fan of the horror genre or cult films in general, ‘Blood Feast’ is worth checking out, just to see where it all began, but it doesn’t stand up to the standards to any of the classic or cult horror movies that it has influenced.