It truly is Carving Magic
Last night Dylan and I watched a movie that gave a whole new meaning to, "it's so bad it's good". And that movie, my friends, is Blood Feast by the great Herschell Gordon Lewis. It was made in 1963, when Gore Films just didn't exist. Apparently real actors, decent scripts, boom mikes, sound effects and props didn't really exisit then either, because they were nowhere to be found in Blood Feast. What does exisit is really shiny and gross pieces of raw meat being held in our killer's shaking hands. And HILARIOUS crying scenes, especially the boy on the beach weeping. I was laughing my head off. Believe it or not, the movie isn't the real gem of the DVD. It's one of the extras, an educational short called, Carving Magic, staring none other than the detective from Blood Feast, William Kerwin. He is led by some famous home economics superstar to change his meat carving skills from downright embarassing to mindblowing expertise. It looks like a film they would show in Home Ec in the 60's and it probably was. It's 20 minutes and goes into intense detail in the art of meat carving. She carves every meat ever, and I guess they didn't have nice cuts of meat back in the 60's. It was supposed to look appetizing, I'm sure, but I'd rather eat the raw meat from Blood Feast. It's just delightful, the whole thing. Rent the DVD (but skip the rare deleted scenes: they aren't deleted scenes at all, but bad takes of scenes in the movie. No bloopers here, no sound either. Just bad takes. 70 minutes of them. Not joking.)