Film Buff Friday: Blood Feast

Nom, Nom, Nom, Nom...

The notorious HGL's masterpiece of gore just in time for Halloween...Boo!

Blood Feast [Dual Format] (10/10)

The filmography of late movie maverick Herschell Gordon Lewis brims with the mad, macabre, and just downright bizarre. But perhaps the most unhinged of all his directorial efforts, and certainly the most influential, must surely be his original gore-fest Blood Feast - the first ever splatter movie.

Dorothy Fremont is looking to throw a party unlike any other, and she gets just that when she hires the decidedly sinister Fuad Ramses to cater the event. Promising to provide her guests with an authentic Egyptian feast, Ramses promptly sets about acquiring the necessary ingredients - the body parts of nubile young women! 

Featuring a host of stomach-churning gore gags including the infamous tongue sequence and much more nastiness besides, Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast more than lives up to its name and remains essential viewing for any self-respecting splatter fan.

Features

- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard DVD presentations

- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

- Scum of the Earth - Herschelll Gordon Lewis' 1963 feature

- Blood Perspectives - Filmmakers Nicholas McCarthy and Rodney Ascher on Blood Feast

- Herschell's History - Archival interview in which director Herschell Gordon Lewis discusses his entry into the film industry

- How Herschell Found his Niche - A new interview with Lewis discussing his early work

- Archival interview with Lewis and David F. Friedman

- Carving Magic - Vintage short film from 1959 featuring Blood Feast Actor Bill Kerwin

- Outtakes

- Alternate 'clean' scenes from Scum of the Earth

- Promo gallery featuring trailers and more

- Feature length commentary featuring Lewis and David F. Friedman moderated by Mike -Grady

- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil

Pre-order at MVDshop.com or on Amazon  

Look At Me, I'm In "Terror Toons 3!"

One Of Many WTF?! Moments in
Terror Toons 3

OK, everyone knows I am a writer, sometimes on occasion I have also been known to act. Well if you look at this still from Terror Toons 3 and look real hard you can spot me portraying an ER Dr. Kidding you don't have to look too hard I am the one not wearing a surgical mask bringing up the rear, of course I am the unsanitary one, ha!

Most likely I was so scared I forgot to put it on. Excuses, excuses, excuses...I am punished for my negligent behavior, just wait till you see how the evil Dr. Carnage offs me in quite a violent way. So for any of you out there who wanna see me killed by a homicidal cartoon, well here is your chance!

This horror flick is one wild and crazy ride, I had a blast seeing the finished product at the premiere. So what's it about exactly you say? Check out the synopsis here:

Picking up exactly where the original left off. This 3rd installment tells the tale of Cindy and her little sister Candy fighting the good fight with the help of their friends against evil Dr. Carnage and his abominable sidekick, Max Assassin. Enter the darken, kaleidoscope colored world of the cartoon dimension where anything is possible. Where everyone is subject to a blood splattered crazy cartoon death. The one, the only GODFATHER OF GORE: Herschell Gordon Lewis stars in this truly original cult masterpiece. Herschell narrates the classic tale of the Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood as written by the wild and unpredictable Director, Joe Castro. Not for the weak at heart or those with a sensitive stomach. TERROR TOONS 3 is a shocking, gore filled blood epic.

Trust me you ain't seen nothing like it, Joe Castro has one off the wall imagination, prepare yourself to be entertained!

Terror Toons 3 is out on iTunes now at:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/terror-toons-3/id1134318731

On Social Media at:

ttps://www.facebook.com/terrortoons3/

https://twitter.com/terrortoons  

Get Your Tickets! "Terror Toons 3" Premiere !

Here is the 411 about the Terror Toons 3 premiere!

Screening will be on November 7, 2015 @11AM at the Laemmle NOHO 7 Theatre in North Hollywood, CA. Ticket details will be coming very soon. Event will be open to the public as well. It will include a Q&A following the screening with Director Joe Castro.

Interested? Want to know more? What happens in the cartoon dimension stays there, but here is what I can divulge:

You need to be in the Los Angeles area the weekend of November 7th.

If you would like to purchase tickets I have included the link to do just that at the bottom of the page. 

Terror Toons 3 is the sequel to Terror Toons 1 & 2. 

I am in it and will be attending the premiere.

Oh, and I also have 10 free tickets to unload to the first 10 people who contact me via E-mail, Tweet or Comment on this post.

The premiere is only two weeks away, hope to see all of you there!

Terrortoons3.brownpapertickets.com

The Horror: Joe Castro

Joe Dressed Down For Halloween

Here to celebrate the Halloween season is horror filmmaker, creature creator and make-up artist Joe Castro.

With his innovative "Terror Toons" series (1 & 2) and a library that includes titles like "Jackhammer" & "Near Death" This guy loves the macabre and the one day a year that celebrates it. Let's check in with the man behind the current award winning fright flick "The Summer of Massacre" about his favorite Holiday...Halloween!

MS: Alright Joe I know Halloween is your favorite Holiday tell everyone the five reasons why.

JC: #1 I love all of the black and white classic Universal Horror Films they show at Halloween time every year. Those movies really put you in the Halloween spirit and they really get to the roots of what horror is all about. "Dracula", "The Wolfman", "The Mummy" ..."The Invisible Man" is my favorite!

"The Invisible Man" is the scariest of all the classic Universal Horror Films, because he has the ability to murder people and because he is invisible he can't get caught. He's insane and a force to be reckoned with. If you have not seen this movie in a while, I suggest you go back and watch it.

JC: #2 This year will be different for me, but up until then I used to loved carving pumpkins. I'm on the bandwagon with saving the environment now. Not being wasteful of the Earth's resources, so this year I am making a huge pumpkin out of recyclables. I love them and I  loved carving them, so this year I am creating one instead.

JC: #3 Helping others make their Halloween costume is something that I enjoy doing. Now, I won't make them for them, but I will help out. If I made it for them I would not make it as good as my own (laughs) that's why I offer to help others make theirs. Especially someone who has really never gone out on Halloween I tell them when you go out with me it's like being Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, you have hundreds of people taking your picture. (laughs)

Joe's 2012 Halloween Greeting: The Great Pumpkin

JC: #4 I also love Haunted Houses, and going to Halloween Haunts. A few years ago I went to a Haunted Hayride where you walk around a cornfield, talk about turning into an instant child...I don't care what age you are, or how not into Halloween you might be, you go into a haunted corn field you let loose your inner brat. (laughs) It's one of my favorite things ever to do for Halloween. Also for many years I worked with the March of Dimes and helped put on really huge Haunted Houses for them, it was a blast!

JC: #5 Dressing up is my number one favorite thing to do for Halloween! It's the one time of year I can get as naked as possible in public. (laughs) Seriously that is my goal ever year how naked can I get on Halloween and not get arrested? This years "naked" costume is something I've never tried before, I'm going to make anatomically correct bat wings to wear and nothing else, except for something to cover what would get me arrested if it were exposed. (laughs) Being almost naked around everyone while they are dressed is my favorite thing to do for Halloween.

MS: What projects do you have coming up for all of your fellow horror enthusiasts?

JC: Steve and I are heavily involved in the production of "Terror Toons 3". It's called "Herschell's Gory Story", it stars Hershcell Gordon Lewis the "Godfather of Gore" and Brinke Stevens in a piece called "Brinke's Scary Story". We are forty five minutes into it right now.

Also "The Summer of Massacre" is available for download on "Amazon Instant Video Download".

MS: Thanks Joe,  Have A Happy Naked Halloween!

JC: I always do (laughs)

Don't be scared, learn more about Joe at: https://www.facebook.com/joe.castro