"BLOOD FEAST" Delayed But Theatrical, Home Video Coming
Gore-meister director HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS shocked his way into horror film legend with his 1963 gore classic, "BLOOD FEAST" before enjoying a lucrative second life as a home video hit that ultimately sold more than 1.5-million units. Now, more than 50-years later, producer EMSCH SCHNEIDER and director MARCEL WALZ have re-envisioned the film as bigger budget, European remake, shot in Paris last year.
The original film is known for being the first "splatter movie". The synopsis for Walz's take on the material goes like this:
Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run an American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights, he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms. After this pivotal night, Fuad begins a new life, in which murder and cannibalism become his daily bread. He starts to prepare a ritual FEAST to honor his new mistress, a lavish affair dripping with BLOOD, organs, and intestines of human victims. As butchered bodies are heaped upon the Altar of Ishtar, Fuad slowly slips further into madness, until he is no more than the goddess’s puppet, who also thirsts for the blood of Fuad’s wife and daughter..
"QUIETUS" Literary-Suspense Novel Re-Release February 27, 2018
On the publishing front, the re-release of the novel "QUIETUS" (in "trade cover" format) is on schedule for the Barnes & Noble promotion in February, which will be supported with ads in the New York Times Book Review, Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal, as well as email campaigns, social media and a high-profile publicity outreach promotion from FSB Associates.