Review of Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) by Jeff H — 31 Aug 2010

In 1972 cult hero and gore in film pioneer Herschel Gordon Lewis ended his movie making career after a long line of bizarre, horrible, silly and just plain bad low budget exploitation films. Herschel when on to different things after his final film THE GORE GORE GIRLS (1972) was realised, the reason Herschel left making graphic films was due to the new wake of many indie film makers were starting to make more graphic gore films. Until that point Herschel had a decade long run in the 1960's unopposed in the gore and splatter film business due to no one else was making movies that graphic. In fact his entire career had been based upon the fact no one was making films like him, with movies like the screw ball sex comedy THE ADVENTURES OF LUCKY PIERRE (1960) other film makers were not combining sex and comedy in one picture, and of course with BLOOD FEAST (1963) no one had ever produce a film that graphic before. Until now, his long gory strangle hold in the gore businesses hold was shattered by many other filmmakers so Herschel ended his career in the exploitation business. That was until the year 2002 when he and old time partner David .F. Friedman returned with a straight to DVD sequel of BLOOD FEAST tilted BLOOD FEAST 2: ALL U CAN EAT.

So the million dollar question is, after a 30 year absences in the industry did Herschel improve on his non existence film making skills? Really dose a leopard change its spots, would of Hitchcock stop doing great thrillers if he had taken a 30 year break or hell would Uwe Boll ever make anything Oscar worthy , the answer is No and with good old Herschel the answer is no, he hasn't changed one bit . So what is the sequel of the world's first gore film like? On the same level as the original but with the addition of female nudity and comedy, hell Herschel's old business partner David .F. Friedman is the executive producer. So like the original BLOOD FEAST and the other two Blood Trilogy films (TWO THOUSAND MANIACS and COLOUR ME BLOOD RED) Lewis and Friedman reprise their original duties expect for the writing of this film, Lewis and Friedman did not write this one, No a screen writer called W .Boyd. Ford was responsible for the story on this one.

Ok time to look at the film its self, the movie open on two Bums in an ally way for no reason stabbing and killing each other just before the opening credits (already I knew what to expect with HGL). After the main credits a car stops outside the desired and long boarded up store of the late Fuad Ramses called RAMSES EXTOTIC CATERING. It turns out that Fuad Ramses the 3 rd has inherited the long closed building, when detective Myers enters asks Fuad about the killings of the bums behind his new business, but since Fuad has just arrive he isn't aware of this. After Myers has left Fuad discovers the statute of Ishtar and becomes automatically enslaved to the blood thirsty goddess, now like his granddaddy he is now on the hunt for young sexy females to decapitate and cook for the godess, but this time the cast actally eat the remain of the girls in finger sandwiches and other things. And like the first Blood Feast the unsuspecting hosts this time are detective Myers and his fiancee wedding reception that will cater to the blood feast. Meanwhile Myers and his boss detective Loomis (yes the names are taken from Halloween) investigate the strange case of the fiancee's bridesmaids being brutally murder and decapitated.

Overall Blood Feast 2 like the original has massive flaws like poor direction from Lewis, shit and I mean shit acting from the cast, and piss poor scripting plus in this films case continuity issues , weird musical score ( like the word Satan repeated constantly) , pathetic humour , and tones of unneeded female nudity makes this film seem bad like the first. Hell in parts I didn't know if I was watching a gore film, a horror comedy or hell even a soft core porn film with the random lingerie party and the lesbian love scene between two of the brides maids before fuad kills one of them. It's stupid and bad but at the same time bloody entertaining to watch this latest effort from Herschel GOREdon Lewis. Oh I forgot to mention the Gore is so well done, pure old school techniques are used and the result it not only captures the spirit of the old gore films of the director but gore wise it's a vast improvement on every gore HGL has made , hell I was a little grossed out by the gore . overall rating 6/10 same as the original but more entertaining and enjoyable .