cinema history class: color me blood red (1965)

The session: "Blood for Blood's Sake"
We watch Herschell Gordon Lewis' blood trilogy as well as a film by one of his associates.

As always, there may be spoilers here. And the trailer may be NSFW and/or NSFL.

Week 3: Color Me Blood Red (1965)
Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis

My Impressions Going In:
I had never heard of this.

Plot:
A crazy artist needs blood as the key pigment for his red paint.

Reaction and Other Folderol:
The thing about Color is that the fundamental premise of the movie is very strong. Arguably, it has the strongest premise of any of the blood trilogy*. The problem is that it was done so poorly. The script doesn't do enough to make the plot clear (beyond the basic outline I summarized above). To go with the weak plot, there's very little character development, which makes it very difficult to care about any of the people in the film. No one really mattered.

The blood was plentiful, so the viewer who just wants a lot of that comically bright red blood, this will satisfy that urge.

I also note that the film was bookended by a prologue and an epilogue that did nothing to make it better. They should have left those off.

Ratings

Me: 3.5

Bob-O: 5.5

Christina: 4.7

Dave: 7

Ethan: 4

Joe: 9

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*The other movies in the trilogy being Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs!