Color Me Blood Red [Blu-ray]

Overview

The third film in cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis' infamous "Gore Trilogy," this overwrought horror film is one of many inferior derivations of Roger Corman's classic A Bucket of Blood (1959). Don Joseph stars as Adam Sorg, a pompous artist who discovers that human blood provides his paintings with just the right shade of red. The over-the-top splatter includes stabbings, slicings, and evisceration, with Sorg going so far as to squeeze blood from a victim's dangling intestine. Still, the film is not as grim as it sounds, due mainly to the shoddy effects and Lewis' flamboyant direction, which makes every action and line so hyperbolic that it crosses the line from horror into campy self-parody often and with wanton abandon.

Product Details

Release Date:	02/19/2019
UPC:	0760137211983
Original Release:	1965
Rating:	NR
Source:	Arrow Video
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[monaural]
Language:	English
Time:	1:19:00
Sales rank:	36,721

Special Features

High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation; English Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; Bonus Feature! 1967's Something Weird; Introductions to the films by H.G. Lewis; Audio Commentary on both films with H.G. Lewis and Producer David F. Friedman; The Art of Madness - a video essay on the recurring motif of mad artists as killers in horror films; Weirdsville - film scholar Jeffrey Sconce on Something Weird; H.G. Lewis on his 1966 children's musical Jimmy, The Boy Wonder; A Hot Night at the Go Go Lounge! - 1966 dance short; Color Me Blood Red Outtakes; H.G. Lewis Promo Gallery including trailers for Color Me Blood Red, Something Weird and Jimmy, The Boy Wonder; Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by The Twins of Evil

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Gordon Oas-Heim	Adam Sorg
Candi Conder	April Carter
Elyn Warner	Gigi
Patricia Lee	Sydney
Jerome Eden	Rolf
Scott H. Hall	Farnsworth
James Jackel	Jack
Iris Marshall	Mrs. Carter
William Harris	Gregorovich
Cathy Collins	Mitzi
Sandi Conder	Actor
Don Joseph	Adam Sorg

Technical Credits

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis	Director,Screenwriter,Special Effects
David F. Friedman	Producer