DVD / Film review:
Blood Feast 2 :
All U Can Eat
(2002)
The Horror Drunx review
By Danny Phibes
(Warning: possible spoilers)
Normally, I am quite the skeptic when it comes to sequels. However, within minutes I was sucked into this continuation of
Herschell Gordon Lewis' 1963 cult classic. The film begins with two hobos browsing through trash cans for dinner, then suddenly killing and gutting each
other while laughing maniacally. At this point, you don't know what's going on at all, but can make the guess it has something to do with the glowing
red light they saw coming from a nearby building.
The film's plot surrounds the same small un-named town from the first movie and Fuad Ramses, III, grandson of the original madman who sacrificed young
women to the goddess, Ishtar. The young Ramses moves into town, only with intent to take over the family catering business. He has no interest in following
in his grandfather's footsteps, yet this quickly changes when he discovers a statue of Ishtar that was left behind in the building. The statue's
glowing red eyes possesses him and he begins to torture and kill the women involved in a wedding that he is to cater. He later serves their body parts at the
reception, to please the goddess.
Unlike the first film, Blood Feast 2 takes on a more comedic tone. There are small spoofs on horror throughout, such as obvious human fingers in lady finger
sandwiches, Swedish meatballs that gush with human blood and the dead body of a minor character that went unnoticed while alive, still being ignored in
death. The movie has two references to John Carpenter's Halloween. A detective has the name Michael Myers, and a character in the film calls Detective
Dave Loomis "Sam", a reference to Donald Pleasance's character in the original Halloween series.
Overall, the gore in this film was fantastic and actually almost worth cringing over, and the blood looks fairly realistic, showing the drastic change in
special effects since Lewis made his original film four decades earlier. It keeps the same campiness from the original while adding a sense of dark comedy,
giving it a charm of it's own. W. Boyd Ford's script is well-written, and the soundtrack for the film is phenomenal; being provided largely by
Southern Culture on the Skids with a couple of songs by The Butthole Surfers thrown in as well. Director/Actor John Waters has a cameo as a pedophiliac
priest. Anyone into blood, nudity and a good morbid laugh set to dark rockabilly music should love this movie.
"My name is Danny Phibes and I am a Horror Drunx"
DANNY PHIBES
North Carolina
October 2009
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