- Year
- 1963
- Country
- USA
- Runtime
- 67 min
- Director
- Herschell Gordon Lewis
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (33/100)
- Also known as
- Egyptian Blood Feast · Feast of Flesh
Blood Feast
The first gore film. Barely competent, historically unavoidable.
The first gore film, made by Herschell Gordon Lewis in a few days for around $24,500 because the nudie market was drying up and drive-ins needed something television could not show. A deranged caterer murders women to assemble an Egyptian goddess from their parts.
It is barely competent as filmmaking, the acting is dire and the pacing is deadly, but it put on-screen dismemberment in front of an audience for the first time, and everything in the splatter genre descends from it. The tongue-removal scene is the historical moment.
Essential as history, close to unwatchable as entertainment.
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