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.
Practical Effects
Gore so fake it's almost edible—melons dyed red, actual sheep tongue.
Direction
Lewis shot this in 4 days with money from nudie-cutie profits.
Director
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herschell Gordon Lewis was a marketing professor who calculated that gore + low budget = profit; he was right.
Banned in the UK as a 'video nasty' and prosecuted in Florida—Lewis used the obscenity trial for publicity.
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