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Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Writer: W. Boyd Ford
Cast---
John McConnell ...  Detective Dave Loomis (as
John 'Spud' McConnell)
Mark McLachlan ...  Detective Mike Myers
Melissa Morgan ...  Mrs. Lampley
Toni Wynne ...  Tiffani Lampley
J.P. Delahoussaye ...  Fuad Ramses III
Chris Mauer ...  Mr. Lampley
Christy Brown ...  Bambi Deere
Christina Cuenca ...  Misti Morning
Michelle Miller ...  Laci Hundees

Runtime: 92 min | 99 min (director's cut)
BLOOD FEAST 2: ALL U CAN EAT (2002)

I’m a huge fan of the gore movement H.G. Lewis started. Finally the spotlight was cast on blood, guts
and visceral carnage. Even by today’s standards the original first splatter film: Blood Feast, is pretty
graphic and intense and a hell of a lot of fun. It has it’s slow parts, yes, but it delivers plenty when it
needs to. Tonight I am reviewing Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, an unworthy sequel but somewhat
enjoyable horror comedy. The humor in the first film was subtle and neatly tucked into the corners,
barely visible and it worked well. Some may even say there was no humor, that’s how subtle it was. Here
with this sequel the humor is upfront and where it should have been hip and clever is mediocre and
predictable most of the times. Not even H. G. Lewis directing this film (which he does) could manage to
pull it up out of the trash.

 Fuad Ramses III has just inherited the Exotic catering store from his deceased maniac grandfather. It
was the scene of brutal murders and worship to the god Ishtar. That all happened in the first film and it
will happen again here faster than you might think. The writers stuck with a very similar story from the
original. A stuck up rich woman is planning her daughter Tiffani’s wedding and wants some exotic
catering from Ramses.
Ramses agrees and starts preparing things. In a strange room he finds the stone statue of the goddess
Ishtar. Her eyes light up and that’s enough to turn our normal caterer into a religious fanatic, homicidal
lunatic idiot. He suddenly now knows that he must plan a “blood feast” and disguise it as a wedding
reception. Oh and he must use Tiffani’s friends’ body parts as ingredients in the dishes.

 Detective Myers, another bumbling idiot, has got it in his head that Ramses is trouble. He keeps
dropping by the store as girls start disappearing and appearing in food Ramses is preparing. He
tortures (Ramses) the girls and removes eyes, tongues liver, pretty much anything to prepare the
sumptuous “blood feast” ceremony in honor of Ishtar. Meanwhile to overtly add nudity to the film, Tiffani
and her friends have a lingerie party and try the clothing on each other’s beautiful bodies. Do girls really
have lingerie parties and strip naked and try on the lingerie for each other?? I might never know. So
girls start disappearing courtesy of Ramses III. Body parts are removed and blood flows. The gore is
pretty simple and it gets simpler for me for I saw the R rated version. I couldn’t find the uncut at the time.
But I have seen R films with more blood than this. H. G. Lewis, Godfather of Gore, why hast thou
forsaken me?

 So finally the night of the wedding is here and the following reception. Fuad Ramses III leads Tiffani’s
mother to the strange room in his store to talk finances. Meanwhile the people at the party eat up the
delicious dishes made from human body parts. Ramses ties her up and puts a bucket over her head for
some unknown reason and utters some words to Ishtar. Detective Myers busts in with his fat
stereotypical partner  Detective Loomis. Loomis shoots Ramses. Myers comes under the control of
Ishtar and kills Tiffani’s mother. In trying to destroy the darn statue it falls on Myers, knocking his brains
out. That’s all folks.

 I thought the ending was fine and dandy. You actually got to see some brains. If I failed to mention
earlier Tiffani was going to marry none other than Detective Myers. She was also present in the final
showdown in the strange room. I believe it was her (in trying to destroy the statue) that had it knock her
fiancé’s brains out.  Ramses was killed so fast you barely even notice. In the original film there’s a chase
on foot. The thing that really killed the film for me was the obnoxious humor which was totally dumb. It
was like Jar Jar Binks in Episode one. I have always asked myself why filmmakers ruin horror sequels by
turning them into horror comedies. Please, no more of this. Even though this film gets only two coffins I
recommend it because the essence of the Ramses character is still there and that made this film
decent.   

                                                                                      - Jorge Antonio Lopez      
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