Blood Feast(1963)
1963 · Herschell Gordon Lewis · 67 min
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
Horror
4.8204 votes
TMDB score
2/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is Blood Feast?
It kicks off almost immediately with murder and barely slows down, stringing together one gruesome killing after another with almost no build-up or suspense in between. The scares come from watching messy, over-the-top violence happen on screen rather than from any creeping dread or jump scares. It's cheaply made and often unintentionally funny, so it plays more like a shock-value curiosity than something that will actually rattle you. Good for fans of trashy, campy gore history rather than anyone looking for a genuinely frightening night.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Blood Feast rates psychological 1/5, visceral 3/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 2/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 2 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 70 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 15 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A crude, low-budget shocker that lurches between flat, talky stretches and sudden bursts of graphic gore, building to a gruesome climax.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5.
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