Blood Feast (also known as Egyptian Blood Feast and Feast of Flesh), a 1963 film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis, is an American exploitation film often considered the first "gore" or splatter film. It was produced by David F. Friedman. The screenplay was written by Alison Louise Downe, an actress who had previously appeared in several of Lewis's other films. Lewis also wrote the film's score. Well loved by members of Lewis's small but loyal cult, as well as by some bad movie fanatics, Blood Feast is a low budget horror film about an insane Egyptian caterer who kills people so that he can include their body parts in his meals and perform sacrifices to his "Egyptian goddess" Ishtar (although the deity in question is actually Babylonian). Blood Feast immediately became notorious for its explicit blood, gore and violence. Many people consider its most infam

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