Blood Feast lays claim to being the first splatter movie, and it certainly delivers an experience audiences in 1963 hadnt enjoyed before. Over the course of 67 minutes, heads are bashed are in, tongues torn out and legs chopped off all in blood colour, no less. Herschell Gordon Lewis film is as cheap and primitive as they come, loaded with fake-looking gore and dreadful performances, and its hard to imagine anyone taking it seriously enough to be offended. On its release, Variety called it a totally inept shocker that was incredibly crude and unprofessional from start to finish and would insult even the most puerile and salacious of audiences. Little known on these shores at the time, the films reputation received a boost when it was listed as a Video Nasty in July 1983. Even as late as 2001, the film required cuts before making its debut on DVD.