It’s unfortunate that I’m just now learning about the films
of legendary underground director Herschell Gordon Lewis as I probably would
have enjoyed his brand of gore and humor growing up. As it stands I can appreciate what he
accomplished with his films from the ‘60s and ‘70s such as Blood Feast (1963), The
Wizard of Gore (1970), Color Me Blood
Red (1965) and Two Thousand Maniacs!
(1964), to name a few. In 2002 he
decided to make a sequel to one of his earliest success’ with Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat.
The story follows Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) a
descendant of the original killer from the first film who is set to open shop
in the same place of his ancestor. Of
course, one of his first jobs is to cater a wedding from one of the town’s
elite but nothing goes as planned as he soon becomes possessed by the statue of
an Egyptian goddess. Now he starts to
murder young women in order to have a feast prepared that will end all feasts. So put simply, this is the exact plot of the
original.
There’s something to be said about Lewis’ films from the
‘60s and ‘70s as they are filled with gore and humor and we can laugh at the
bad acting and subpar directing because frankly this was common back in
especially during the drive-in era. You
watch these films now and they still retain a campy charm because they are so
dated. This sequel cannot be forgiven in
the same way. This film suffers from a
lack of originality as well as really bad acting all around. The humor falls flat and the direction is
uninspired and this is because so many other directors have copied Lewis and
done him one better, whereas, he’s progressed very little to say the least.
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