If you think Herschell Gordon Lewis had gotten soft in his old age, think again, because his long-awaited return(..and sequel to the film that brought him stature in the horror genre)is his most disgusting, violently explicit yet. If anything, HGL benefits from advances in practical effects and the technical department. While many of his films in the past have a dopey charm due to "unintentional"(..although, I think those movies were more intentionally made ineptly than HGL would have us believe) humor, the script and performances in Blood Feast 2:All U Can Eat are purposely goofy in this film, unsubtle with the direction constantly, unashamedly, winking at us that this would be completely devoid of taste(..pun intended) or realism.
JP Delahoussaye is Fuad Ramses III, motivated to take up where his grandfather left off by the red glowing eyes of the statue of the goddess Ishtar, still in the basement of the old caterer store. Ramses is hired by the impossibly insufferable Mrs. Lampley(Melissa Morgan, always introduced on the soundtrack upon appearance with, "Satan!")to cater her daughter's marriage to the local detective, Mike Myers(Mark McLachlan)who suspects him of murdering his fiancé's bridesmaids, which he is, using their organs and limbs as lunch-meats for the wedding reception! Myers is an imbecile who just so happens to be right about his suspect while fellow pot-bellied partner, Detective Dave Loomis(John McConnell, always stuffing his face, a gag HGL plays up for all it's worth)wishes he'd lay off because Ramses provides him with free food! Meanwhile, Ramses attacks each bridesmaid, one by one, rendering most of them unconscious by chloroform, from behind, binding their hands and feet, viciously hacking away, removing organs of all kinds, deeply slicing throats, even pulling the face and scalp away from one woman's head(..eventually sawing through her skull with an electrical carving knife to fondle her brains!). One girl's arm is mangled by a meat grinder! Eyeballs gouged by prongs or plucked out by a corkscrew. HGL even brings back the long take of a devastated bloody corpse. Many of the make-up effects are, I'm guessing, purposely fake, but there are plenty of stomach-churning gore to please gore-hounds or sicken/repulse the faint-hearted. The whole film is made tongue-in-cheek and blatantly offensive(..HGL even features his film with rampant boobs from very attractive scantily-clad girls soon to be slaughtered)with direct emphasis on elaborate graphic violence using effects never available to him in the 60's.
Many will get a kick out of John Waters as a pedophile priest inviting young males to become alter boys. Many of the character's names should either tickle your funny bone, or cause eye-rolling. I liked his reference to John Carpenter's Halloween. The detectives are as inept as can be and the victims are all played by actresses who don't even attempt to act(HGL wouldn't have it any other way). Old Gore Grandpa HGL hasn't changed a bit, and his faithful followers are as happy as ever. Not to be taken at all seriously, even during the wedding reception, the entrée dishes had the fingers as "decor" with the painted nails still on them and nobody notices! And, a running gag has dead Mr. Lampley(..treated with disregard by his wife)ignored by detectives despite the fact that somehow his body turns up at crime scenes(..and other places)with them even walking over him!
JP Delahoussaye is Fuad Ramses III, motivated to take up where his grandfather left off by the red glowing eyes of the statue of the goddess Ishtar, still in the basement of the old caterer store. Ramses is hired by the impossibly insufferable Mrs. Lampley(Melissa Morgan, always introduced on the soundtrack upon appearance with, "Satan!")to cater her daughter's marriage to the local detective, Mike Myers(Mark McLachlan)who suspects him of murdering his fiancé's bridesmaids, which he is, using their organs and limbs as lunch-meats for the wedding reception! Myers is an imbecile who just so happens to be right about his suspect while fellow pot-bellied partner, Detective Dave Loomis(John McConnell, always stuffing his face, a gag HGL plays up for all it's worth)wishes he'd lay off because Ramses provides him with free food! Meanwhile, Ramses attacks each bridesmaid, one by one, rendering most of them unconscious by chloroform, from behind, binding their hands and feet, viciously hacking away, removing organs of all kinds, deeply slicing throats, even pulling the face and scalp away from one woman's head(..eventually sawing through her skull with an electrical carving knife to fondle her brains!). One girl's arm is mangled by a meat grinder! Eyeballs gouged by prongs or plucked out by a corkscrew. HGL even brings back the long take of a devastated bloody corpse. Many of the make-up effects are, I'm guessing, purposely fake, but there are plenty of stomach-churning gore to please gore-hounds or sicken/repulse the faint-hearted. The whole film is made tongue-in-cheek and blatantly offensive(..HGL even features his film with rampant boobs from very attractive scantily-clad girls soon to be slaughtered)with direct emphasis on elaborate graphic violence using effects never available to him in the 60's.
Many will get a kick out of John Waters as a pedophile priest inviting young males to become alter boys. Many of the character's names should either tickle your funny bone, or cause eye-rolling. I liked his reference to John Carpenter's Halloween. The detectives are as inept as can be and the victims are all played by actresses who don't even attempt to act(HGL wouldn't have it any other way). Old Gore Grandpa HGL hasn't changed a bit, and his faithful followers are as happy as ever. Not to be taken at all seriously, even during the wedding reception, the entrée dishes had the fingers as "decor" with the painted nails still on them and nobody notices! And, a running gag has dead Mr. Lampley(..treated with disregard by his wife)ignored by detectives despite the fact that somehow his body turns up at crime scenes(..and other places)with them even walking over him!