It's unfathomable to me that the guy who made "Blood Feast 2: All You Can Eat" can have been making movies for so many decades and still be this bad at it, but here we are. I don't just mean that the movie sucks, that it's cheap, or merely an excuse to show gore and a little bit of nudity. I mean it's just so badly shot and edited together it feels like you are watching it over someone's shoulder, with headphones on blasting southern rock. There are details that could be funny, other details that could be surprising or shocking, characters you could even care about, but the direction is just so bad you have to fight it to even work out what's going on.It feels like it was filmed with the aid of a telescope, like the crew were really far away from the actors. When they speak, you expect to hear an echo.

I wanted to put my two cents in on this film, since most of the reviews are glowing and this is far from a good film, but what would you expect from Herschell Gordon Lewis. When I was 13 I didn't like roller coasters, if I wanted a stomach churning experience I watched splatter films. Sometimes they were funny like Peter Jackson's Bad taste (still a favorite), and sometimes they were lurid but entertaining like H.G. Lewis' 2000 Maniacs (well the theme song is still fun). But, as I've gotten older most of these films don't really stand the test of time and the only thing they have going for them are the gore. And in most cases not even that can save them.In Blood Feast 2 the gore is repetitive, the writing and acting are crap, and the jokes are old and unfunny. I'm not sure what I expected from Lewis, though his other films were interesting to watch for their lurid, sometimes inventive, gore this movie is just boring. I gave it 2 stars for one reason.John McConnellHe is the only thing worth watching in this movie, and his character carries the only spark of genius in the entire show. It's so genius that I have a feeling it wasn't in the original script, nor did the director or writer have anything to do with it. At one crime scene he makes the requisite "boy I sure am hungry" joke, of course I rolled my eyes "haven't heard that one before", but as the movie goes on it gets so over the top that he starts every scene with "I sure am hungry" and ends every scene with "I sure am hungry". John McConnell you have found a fan.

We start off Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast sequel with Miss Louisiana Christina Cuenca screaming her pretty head off as Fuad Ramses III (J.P. Delahoussaye) puts her through a meat grinder. We expect a lighter film, and we are getting it as Delahoussaye is a comedian and brings that to the film.Oh, why did he have to go to Laci Hundees (Michelle Miller) for the brains and more liver? She was giving us such a fantastic show when he rudely interrupted.Detective Loomis (John McConnell) is played by another comedian, and we get comic breaks during the investigation.After a boring examination of the remains of Misty Morning, we quickly go to a lingerie shower for the new bride, Tiffany (Toni Wynne). We stay her a while why all the girls model lingerie and we enjoy them as they change. Two of the girls go off into the other room and we expect some hot action. No, here comes the killer again. Harvest time. And, what does he have in mind for Candi Graham (Jill Rao)? Well, we can watch some dudes tromping through the jungle using the "R" word, or we can bathe ourselves in blood and intestines and lots of boobies, while having a good laugh. Me? I'm going back for seconds, thank you.

Well, well, well...what can I say for the long-awaited(?) sequel to Blood Feast except that I have never laughed so hard in my life!! Back when the original was released, my father went to see it at a local drive-in. As he would later tell me, it was the last gore film he ever saw. The thing that stood out most in his mind was the sound of Fuad Ramses walking, dragging his bad leg behind him. Lo and behold, after the festvities begin, his grandson injures himself and spends the rest of the movie walking in the exact same manner. C'mon people, that's funny! Even by H.G. Lewis standards, it's got a serious case of tongue-in-cheek (then removed and dumped into soup). It's not Shakespeare, people, it's the Godfather of Gore. And having John Waters as a priest?? It gets funnier and funnier each time I watch it. Granted, the new Ramses is no Mal Arnold, and the acting won't make you forget Connie, but for your rental or purchase price, it's definitely a bargain!! I give it two bloody severed thumbs up!!breakfastmanager