Friday, July 31, 2020

Color Me Blood Red, Herschel Gordon Lewis (1965)



The best line in the movie was a young man's oddly adolescent cry, "Holy bananas! It's a girl's leg!" when he and his girlfriend find a dead body buried in the sand.

A gore movie. The story of an artist who begins painting with human blood. It's something artists actually did decades later, using bodily fluids and fecal matter as artistic media. I don't know that any of their work was of lasting value since we don't know how long it would be before paintings made with that stuff would start  to disintegrate.

It was an hour and a half which was long considering how little happened in it. Unless I missed something, only two people were killed. Had a lot of terrible scenes of two young couples hanging around on the beach and of the artist being an obnoxious eccentric.

Available on the Criterion Channel if you can believe that.

No comments:

Post a Comment