Main Cast: J. P. Delahoussaye, John "Spud" McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Toni Wynne, Kristi Polit
Release Year: 2002
Country: US
Run Time: 99 minutes
Plot
Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman, the director/producer team who made exploitation film history in the early 1960s with their then-daring "nudie cuties" and later the first "gore" films, return to the scene of their most infamous project with this sequel, which marked their first collaboration since 1964 (and Lewis' first directorial effort since 1972). Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye), whose grandfather's cannibal tendencies were ended when he fell into the business of a garbage truck, has inherited the family catering business, which has fallen on hard times. Fuad scores a high-paying job catering a wedding reception for an upper-crust family, but as he's clearing out his grandfather's supply closet, he discovers a statue of the goddess Ishtar. Falling under her spell, crazed Faud begins knocking off the bridesmaids, who unwittingly find themselves becoming a vital part of the wedding banquet. Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat also features a cameo appearance from John Waters, who has cited the original Blood Feast as one of his favorite films; Southern Culture on the Skids contribute to the musical score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
Review
Fans have been begging Herschell Gordon Lewis to end his self-imposed exile from the film world for years, but as a highly successful writer of books on copywriting and direct-mail marketing, he's never had a need to return to the camera. Apparently, the time was right in 2001; so nearly 30 years after the groundbreaking "gore" film Blood Feast, he reunited with producer David F. Friedman and returned to the scene of his most notorious cinematic crime. Strangely enough, Lewis' directing has greatly improved in the three decades since his last film (the nearly incoherent Gore Gore Girls). Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat is a smoother ride than the haphazard rhythms of his past catalog, and it's more than just better film stock or mere technological innovation. Perhaps the fact that he's no longer grinding out product to put bread on his table allowed Lewis to take more care in composing shots and guiding the action. It's never as wild or unpredictable as the outlandishly weird films that made his reputation, but it doesn't matter. Blood Feast 2 is a farce through and through, paying tribute to its director's sticky legacy and never even attempting to scare the audience. The emphasis here is on gags and gore, with the occasional wink-and-nudge reference to the 1963 original. Most of the humor is cheap and obvious, taking easy pokes at donut-chewing cops and pedophilic priests (courtesy of Lewis devotee John Waters, who dons the collar in a lengthy cameo), but there are several laugh-out-loud moments that will take viewers by surprise. Thankfully, Lewis stays true to the old-school methods of gross-out technology, relying on rubber torsos and gallons of butcher shop offal. It's the whole point of the picture, and there are a multitude of long, lingering shots of lead psycho J. P. Delahoussaye lovingly running his fingers through steaming intestines, brains and livers. Some of the special effects aren't entirely successful, but all are effectively nauseating, and even hardened gore fans might find themselves frantically grasping for the remote control during the more intense scenes. The cast attempts to capture the same amateurish theatricality of the original, but they're playing it strictly for laughs this time. Melissa Morgan is the funniest, stealing every scene as a haughty, self-absorbed society dame. She's also the only female cast member who isn't required to strip naked and gyrate for the camera, but there are plenty of nubile victims on hand to model lingerie and take gratuitous showers. The expectations for Blood Feast 2 were high, but Lewis hasn't let his fans down. With this career-capping tribute to himself and his audience, Lewis manages to simultaneously satisfy and parody the sick lusts that have made his film career possible. ~ Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide
Cast
J. P. Delahoussaye
John "Spud" McConnell
Mark McLachlan
Toni Wynne
Kristi Polit
Christine Brown; Christina Cuenca; Michelle Miller; Jill Rao; Cindy Roubal; Veronica Russell; John Waters
Credit
Brian Pitt - Casting, W. Boyd Ford - Co-producer, Penelope Helmer - Co-producer, Melissa Morgan - Co-producer, Brian Pitt - Co-producer, Jimi Woods - Co-producer, Kacee Pecue - Costume Designer, Jimi Woods - First Assistant Director, Herschell Gordon Lewis - Director, Steven Teagle - Editor, David F. Friedman - Executive Producer, Michelle Rolland - Production Designer, Chris W. Johnson - Cinematographer, David F. Friedman - Producer, Jacky Morgan - Producer, Elizabeth Ullrich - Set Designer, Joe Castro - Special Effects, Jonathan Thornton - Special Effects, Skip Godwin - Sound/Sound Designer, W. Boyd Ford - Screenwriter, Southern Culture on the Skids - Featured Music
Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, also known as Blood Feast 2: Buffet of Blood is an exploitation-stylesplatter film. Written by W. Boyd Ford and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, it released in 2002, and is the sequel to Lewis's cult classic film Blood Feast. The film continues the story left from the original film, where a grandson of Fuad Ramses attempts to restart his uncle's catering business, and features a cameo from director John Waters as a pervertedpriest.[1]
The film takes place in a small town with the opening scene being of two bums being possessed by the light of a statue and then killing themselves. You later find out that when this statue glows it possesses whoever sees it and makes them kill. It is a statue of the BabylonianGoddessIshtar, but is mistakenly called Egyptian at first. Then comes along Fuad Ramses III the next morning, showing him opening up this old catering business of his Grandfathers, where many people had died before. While setting up the new store, a local policedetective comes by to ask Fuad about the murders that happened behind the store the night before, and to also warn him about how his grandfather, murdered and cooked up people in this very shop many years earlier. While he starts to cook for his first customers, he stumbles upon the statue in the back room, and becomes possessed and tells the statue that he will make a feast for her.
His first customer is the Lampley family. Their daughter, Tiffani, is getting married and Ramses is the only caterer within 100 miles.
One by one the bridesmaids for the wedding disappear at the hand of the now possessed Fuad, and his food starts to become a big hit with everyone. He also develops a relationship with one of the friends, Trixi Treeter. When he goes to Trixi's house for a date, he chloroforms them both. He prepares lady fingers, which happen to be actual ladies fingers, and makes Swedish meatballs from them too. Two police detectives, Detective Meyers and Detective Loomis start to investigate the murders. Meyers believes it to be Fuad as he just came into to town and then the disappearance of girls begins to happen. Loomis is giving Fuad more credit though, as he believes that you can't blame what his grandfather did, on him. So unsuspectingly, the town starts to eat everything Fuad cooks up and everyone loves it. After some investigating by detective Loomis, he discovers that this statue is a symbol of sacrificial blood feasts, and now believes that Fuad is possessed, and that his Grandfather must have had the same fate. Meyers on the other hand has also switched sides, as he saw the statue when interrogating Fuad, and now he doesn't want Fuad bothered anymore. The final scene of the movie takes place in the catering shop with a victim of Fuads tied up. Detective Meyers and Loomis come in and kill Fuad before he can kill the girl. Meyers who has been possessed, now turns on the victim and Loomis and tries to kill them. Loomis frantically tries to destroy the statue so that it will break the spell it has on Meyers, but in the mean time it crushes and kills Meyers, and Loomis and Meyers girlfriend go off in the distance together.
