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(A quick note about the Amazon listing: There are several listings for Blood Feast 2, and they are all rated R. Look at the duration of each movie. You want the 98 minute version, which is the UNCUT version. The Special Edition is also UNCUT. I assume we all want the uncut version because we're not here for the soliloquies.)

I don't want to go into the level of detail that Gordon Lewis fans know, so I'll present this review for a Lewis virgin:

HGL made movies in the 60s, a time where drive-in movies displaced male testosterone from peep show porn into gore and violence. His strawberry marmalade, ketchup, tomato paste brand of hack-em-ups was signature long before the Troma Brothers and Bloodsucking Freaks came around. How Lewis manages to revisit all his dramatic devices (tongue dislodgings, brain removal from cranium, eye-gouging) and make them look exactly the same almost 40 years later is a testament to the man's unyielding devotion to budget first, then craft.

After all, a jar of strawberry jelly isn't what a jar of strawberry jelly was 40 years ago. Have you seen the ingredients they put in today? Absolutely frightening!

What Lewis brings to this installment of his art is sprinklings of culture from the time that has elapsed since Blood Feast. There is rockabilly and heavy metal, the Butthole Surfers, in addition to a hilarious ode to Lt. Lorenzo from the 80s tv show Silk Stalkings (played deftly by Mark McLachlan), and a reference to Emeril Lagassi's "kick it up a notch" (BAM!) that will delight food fans and fetishists from all around.

McLachlan, bearing a resemblance to Tom Cruise may have spent many hours studying Mr. Glib, as he masters all the most annoying traits of Cruise's method acting. His partner Detective Loomis (John McConnell) eats nonstop from the beginning of the movie to the end. There's a string of sexy girls (now in somewhat updated, but still strangely outdated attire) and a rich mother that's right out of a John Waters movie.

For John Waters's fans, it is a delight to finally see Lewis's #1 fan pay homage to his mentor onscreen. JW plays a priest who scours a wedding for new choir boys. Devilishly evil! (Don't worry, the boy lost like he's in his mid 20s!)

All in all, a cheesy and over-the-top flick from the originator of the genre. Yes, there is Airplane-style silliness, bad, cheap jokes that make you groan and roll your eyeballs out of sheer embarrassment, and a type of violence that is so juvenile that only unemployed feminists can write a thesis on.

What one really wants to see is how Herschell Gordon Lewis can conquer inflation and make an incredibly low budget movie in the millenium look as if the same exact amount of money was spent as in 1963's original Blood Feast. And in this department, Lewis never disappoints!

blood feast 2 is the sequel to the 1960's film blood feast directed by herschell gordon lewis. i havent seen the original but i'm aware of its reputation of being the first splatter film ever made. blood feast 2 is the only film i have seen of mr. lewis and after being very entertained and my thirst for gore being more than quenched i will probably seek out his other films. this film is very entertaining and very, very, very gory. the plot involves the grandson of the killer from the original blood feast inheriting his grandfathers catering buisiness and after being possed or hypnotized or something by a magic statue of the godess ishtar he begins murdering and mutilating the bridesmaids of a wedding hes catering and using their flesh to prepare the wedding food. this may sound campy and it is. the whole film is campy and corny. some of the acting is pretty bad, but the actor who plays the killer does a good job at being demented, charming and funny. also the 2 cops are funny to watch. the film is more of a comedy than a horror film. the only thing that makes it a horror film is the extremely graphic carnage and gore. the film is filled with disembowlment, eye gouging, throat cutting, scalping and many other forms of mutilation. the gore scenes are long and very graphic and the special effects, while not 100% convincing are pretty good. this is, as the bach of the dvd states, a gorehounds wet dream. this movie is almost buying for the splatter alone, but the entire film is fun and never gets boring. as i said before, the film is really a comedy and if it took itself seriously than the gore would be some of the most gross and brutal stuff ever(not that it isnt gross or brutal, it is). the comedy works, the gore is amazing and the whole film is very enjoyable. any gorehound should pick this up, just make sure you get the uncut version.