"... the very first splatter movie."
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror, edited by Phil Hardy

"... the Birth of a Nation [1915] of exploitation movies."
- Bill Kelley, Video Watchdog

"...a blot on the American film industry..."
- The Los Angeles Times

"This is it! The infamous first gore film. If you can stand the sight of guts, it's hilarious... The acting is terrible. If the actors were as good as the effects it would be nearly impossible to watch."
- Michael Weldon, The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film

"Blood Feast is a reactionary attempt to bring to films the obsolete trickery of Grand Guignol... (and) will continue to outrage middle class proprieties while titillating the more sophisticated members of the audience."
- Carlos Clarens, An Illustrated History of the Horror Film

"Gross exploitation of buxom young women... Sickening spectacle of the worst kind, which preys on the vicarious needs of lowbrows. The squeamish are not advised to watch – nor are the intelligent."
- John Stanley, Creature Features Movie Guide

"... a mindless, virtually plotless, but high-spirited orgy of gore for gore's sake..."
- John McCarty, Splatter Movies

"It's just remarkable how awful every scene is."
- Danny Peary, Cult Movies 2

"The script is laughable, the acting is atrocious, and if it weren't so short it would be a total bore!"
- The Horror Film

"... the acting is so wretched, it's positively surreal..."
- John Charles, Video Watchdog

"The plot is threadbare, the acting is on a par with the clumsiest of high-school plays, and the direction is static and uninvolving. Nevertheless, this is one of the important releases in film history, ushering in a new acceptance of explicit violence that was obviously just waiting to be exploited."
- Fred Beldin, All Movie Guide

"Lewis' charming relic has long passed critical mass and today sprouts quasi-canonical mold - the obligatory result of four decades of joyous imitation, hyperbolic homage, salivating fanzine pictorials, and other institutionalizing practices."
- Andrew Grossman, Bright Lights Film Journal

"This is the mother lode, the Book of Genesis, the wellspring from which spewed the gallons of grue that flowed through 30 years' worth of splatter and gore movies... The acting is terrible, the threadbare budget shows in every shot, but just imagine Southern drive-in audiences lining up around the block back in 1963 to toss their cookies... Offensive, nasty, shabby, and revolting, but also great fun, if you can stand the sight of guts..."
- Jerry Renshaw, Austin City Chronicle

"If there's a fertilizing moment in the Cinema of Bad Taste, it's Blood Feast... Its importance to the horror genre in particular cannot be over-estimated."
- Stephen Thrower, Nightmare USA

"A ludicrously OTT fable of sacrificial slaughter, cannibalism and violent death...."
- The Rough Guide To Cult Movies

compiled by Richard Harland Smith