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Blood Feast (1963)
In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
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In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
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Genre:Horror
Written By:Allison Louise Downe
In Theaters:7/6/1963
Box Office:$4,000,000
Runtime:67 minutes
Studio:Friedman-Lewis Productions
Cast
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Director
William Kerwin
Detective Pete Thornton
Mal Arnold
Fuad Ramses
Connie Mason
Suzette Fremont
Lyn Bolton
Dorothy Freemont
Scott H. Hall
Frank - Police Captain
Christy Foushee
Trudy Sanders
Ashlyn Martin
Marcy
Astrid Olson
Motel Victim
Sandra Sinclair
Pat Tracey
Jerome Eden
High Priest (uncredited)
Allison Louise Downe
Woman at Lecture (uncredited)
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