SCREAMBOX has all sorts of goodies hitting the streaming service this month, including the newly-released Pet Sematary-inspired Lizzie Lazarus, not to mention several Giallo movies. They join last month’s release of the incredibly timely Street Trash remake and the nightmarish exorcism drama Deus Irae. Gorehounds will eat well with SCREAMBOX’s double helping of Blood Feast. Herschell Gordon Lewis’s […]
SCREAMBOX has all sorts of goodies hitting the streaming service this month, including the newly-released Pet Sematary-inspired Lizzie Lazarus, not to mention several Giallo movies. They join last month’s release of the incredibly timely Street Trash remake and the nightmarish exorcism drama Deus Irae.
Gorehounds will eat well with SCREAMBOX’s double helping of Blood Feast. Herschell Gordon Lewis’s landmark splatter film drops on January 31 while Marcel Walz‘s recent remake starring stars Robert Rusler (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2) and Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2) is now streaming!
The new take on 1963’s Blood Feast (read our review) is dripping with copious amounts of the red stuff; our own Chris Coffel called it “a delicious splatterfest that will have horror hounds going back for seconds.”
In the film…
“Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long, lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess Ishtar. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually, he succumbs to her deadly charms.
“After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual feast to honor his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with blood, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness until he is no more than the goddess’ puppet; and she thirsts for the blood of Fuad’s wife and daughter too…”
The official remake features an impressive cast – including an appearance by Herschell Gordon Lewis, filmed shortly before his death. Other cast members include Robert Rusler (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2) and Sophie Monk (The Hills Run Red).
