Over 50 years after the late Herschell Gordon Lewis shocked the world with gory opus Blood Feast, notable for being the original splatter film, a remake is soon headed to theaters this coming summer. Ahead of the release, which we reported earlier this week (you’ll find all those details below), comes the theatrical poster for the remake. You know where to find it.
Hannover House and Crimson Forest Entertainment Group have entered into a distribution agreement for a June 23rd nationwide theatrical release of Blood Feast (read our review). The release will reach all of the top 40 largest markets, ranging from single-screen exclusive engagements to mini-multiple runs.
The official remake was directed by German director Marcel Walz and features an impressive cast – including an appearance by the 90-year-old Herschell Gordon Lewis, filmed shortly before his death late last year. Other cast members include Robert Rusler (A Nightmare on Elm Street 2), Caroline Williams (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), and Sophie Monk (The Hills Run Red).
In Blood Feast…
Fuad Ramses (Rusler) 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 (Katz). 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…
An October home video release is anticipated, with a subscription video-on-demand window available for December.
