acidburn-10 The plot = Adam Sorg (Gordon Oas Heim) is an eccentric artist whose not quite there yet with his paintings due to lack of good red colouring until one day he discovers that the best shade of red is blood, and after tiring of using his own he starts to kill people and drain they're blood.This movie could have been great, if it had better pacing, more gore and better actors, but sadly it's not. With a title like this you'd think there would be tons of gore, although there are a few bits here and there, but overall it's rather tame, I mean come on this director made "Blood Feast" for god's sake. I was honestly disappointed with this movie, I found myself skipping several parts of this movie, even though this movie isn't very long, not a single character in this movie is interesting or likable. There could have been more murders and more artwork thrown into all that wasted time, and in doing so, would have made this movie so much better than it was.The cast = Gordon Oas Heim (Adam Sorg) okay he wasn't that great but he was the only half way interesting character in this movie, but his weak acting doesn't even make him chewing the scenery any fun. Elyn Warner who plays his wife Gigi was absolutely dire and annoying. Candi Conder (April) the supposed final girl, well I guess she was but all she did was walk around in a bikini that looked like something an old age pensioner would wear and she had terrible hair, she was just way too dull and uninteresting to root for and her boyfriend Rolf was even more boring and should have died, and lasting what the hell was with that couple who dressed alike, I mean what was the point of them, they should have died at least, (If they did I might have given this movie a higher rating).All in all I don't know what the director set out to do when he made this piece of tripe, but if you watch this expecting nothing and then you'll get nothing.

gavin6942 A crackpot artist (Gordon Oas-Heim) kills various people to use their blood as his new crimson red color for his paintings.Lewis has said that "A Bucket of Blood" served as inspiration for this film, and I am not surprised. The hipster, beatnik feel is similar, and I cannot imagine two films about artists who kill for their art not to be connected in some way. (This theme has been explored before and since, but not in such an obvious way.) I recommend this one, and think it is better than "Two Thousand Maniacs", on par with "Blood Feast" but just under "Gore Gore Girls". Fans of Lewis should see this film, and it should not be reduced to "second tier" in his filmography.As of September 2011, thanks to Image Entertainment, you can get this film on Blu-Ray loaded with special features (not least of which is an audio commentary). I strongly suggest picking u pa copy.

Scars_Remain I haven't seen too many HGL films but the ones I've seen are Two Thousand Maniacs, The Wizard of Gore, The Gore Gore Girls, Blood Feast, The Gruesome Twosome and now Color Me Blood Red. This was definitely my least favorite so far because it was dull and didn't even keep my attention for longer than 5 minutes. I think I might give on HGL because I've only liked two of his films so far.The thing about Herschell Gordon Lewis is that his films are either so bad that they're good or so bad that they're unwatchable and not worth wasting time on. This film falls into the latter category. Bad acting, editing, writing, pacing, music placement and lighting are all expected of these films so those aren't what ruined this one for me. It was how it was dragged out and went on for too long even though it was under 90 minutes and where was the gore? After the two films that came before this, I expect a lot more gore, and it wasn't there. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to stick to Two Thousand Maniacs.

Coventry "Color me Blood Red" completes the infamous Blood-trilogy by the even more infamous director Hershell Gordon Lewis and, although my least favorite film of the three, it's another silly entertaining and smutty gore classic. Don't look for many film-making qualities here, as the story is rather unoriginal (imitating Roger Corman's 1959 "Bucket of Blood"), the acting is unspeakable and – especially compared to "Two Thousand Maniacs" – it's clumsily edited together. Good old Lewis brings the art of finger painting to a whole new dimension here, when mentally unstable artist Adam Sorg discovers that the blood of his girlfriend's cut finger supplies him with the exact right shade of red he needs for his macabre paintings. He's going to need more, of course, and thus he kills her as well as various other models in order to complete his masterful art gallery exhibits. I spotted LESS gore than in the previous two Blood-trilogy films, still there are some effectively nauseating scenes, most notably the one where Sorg literally squeezes all the blood out of one his victims' intestines. Other than the gore, there are the hilariously inept dialogues and the complete lack of context to enjoy. If you're not into The Godfather of Gore's work, however, this will just seem like a mindless and sadistic trash-movie.