Blood Feast is a 2016 American horror film directed by Marcel Walz (Tortura; Seed 2; Raw) from a screenplay by Philip Lilienschwarz (Absolutio – Erlösung im Blut) for Gundo Entertainment. It is an official remake of Herschell Gordon Lewis’ groundbreaking 1963 splatter movie of the same title and the director of the original movie has a cameo role as a professor.
Director Marcel Walz has commented: “This project makes one of my longest dreams come true. To realize the remake of the cult movie Blood Feast feels like winning the lottery to me. The fact that the production studio gives me all their trust is an honour. I have very much respect for the realization of this movie and will try everything to make the remake live up to people´s expectations – to make it as bloody and brutal as they hope for it to be!”
Main cast:
Robert Rusler (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2; Amityville: A New Generation; Tales of Halloween), Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre II; Hatchet III; Contracted), Sophie Monk (Monster!; The Hills Run Red), Sadie Katz (House of Bad; Wrong Turn VI; Grindsploitation), Herschell Gordon Lewis, Erik Markus Schuetz, Wilfried Capet.
Plot:
Fuad Ramses (Rusler) and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long, lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess Ishtar (Katz). He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.
After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual feast to honour his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with blood, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness until he is no more than the goddess’ puppet; and she thirsts for the blood of Fuad’s wife and daughter too…
Filming locations:
Paris, France
