Color Me Blood Red
- Sun, Oct 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis Run Time: 79 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1965
Starring: Candi Conder, Elyn Warner, Gordon Oas-Heim, Jerome Eden, Pat Finn-Lee
A crackpot painter kills people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his art.
The shocking and outrageous genre movie maverick H.G. Lewis came at 1965 with a fantastical progression on the gory framework of BLOOD FEAST (‘63) and TWO THOUSAND MANIACS (‘64).
The newest trend in art is type O negative! When his girlfriend Gigi cuts her finger on a frame, maniacal artist Adam Sorg (Don Joseph) discovers a new shade of crimson that will make his artwork so special: human blood. Squeezing all he can out of his sliced-up fingers, Adam then attacks Gigi, smears her blood on a canvas, and a macabre masterpiece is created.
After his bloody new painting causes a sensation on the local art scene, a crazed Adam continues creating sanguine specialties by extracting art supplies from victims outside his beach house. It all goes bad, however, when he zeros in on April (Candi Conder) whose scarlet pigment he plans to remove with an axe… -AGFA
Preceded by THE IMAGE (1969, Michael Armstrong, 13 min)
Doors Open 30 Minutes Before Showtime.