Overview
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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Auto-generatedA landmark of grindhouse cinema, this 1963 horror picture from Herschell Gordon Lewis follows an Egyptian caterer who moonlights as a killer, harvesting victims in a deranged scheme to revive an ancient goddess. Crude, lurid, and deliberately shocking for its era, it is widely regarded as a foundational splatter film, prizing gruesome spectacle over polish. Its tone is campy and macabre rather than genuinely frightening, making it more of a historical curiosity than a conventional scare. Best suited to cult-horror enthusiasts and students of exploitation history curious about the genre's transgressive roots.
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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
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Movie Info
Release Date
July 6, 1963
Runtime
1h 7m
Rating
R
Genres
Horror
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