Leofwine_draca Like Joan Crawford and TROG, FLESH FEAST was the swansong for former Hollywood starlet Veronica Lake, here aged beyond recognition and reduced to playing a mad scientist role in the tale of an anti-ageing treatment - administered via maggots, no less - which is hijacked by a group of Neo Nazis. The twist, of course, is that the film's reveal involves the body of Adolf Hitler, brought back to unceremonious life for the big twist climax. Unfortunately, this film is so cheaply made that the only reaction the viewer has to it is to laugh at it. It's inept throughout, badly scripted and acted, with the effects limited to cruddy make-up and rice standing in from the maggots. Even bad movie lovers will be hard-pressed to enjoy this one.

BA_Harrison Co-produced by and starring Veronica Lake, the 40s platinum blonde famous for her peek-a-boo hair style, Flesh Feast revolves around an experiment that uses flesh-eating maggots to eat away old flesh and rejuvenate new, the first patient being the second in command of the Third Reich, and the next in line none other than Hitler himself.With such a schlocky premise and a suitably lurid title (displayed in a dripping blood-red font), things look set for a gloriously trashy movie, hopefully loaded with gruesome H.G. Lewis style splatter.Unfortunately, although there are one or two grisly moments (the sawing off of a leg from a cadaver, and pieces of a putrefying corpse hanging in the laboratory), Flesh Feast fails to live up to its potential as an outrageously camp gorefest, the majority of the running time devoted to dialogue heavy scenes with stilted performances from all involved.The finale, in which Dr. Elaine Frederick (Lake) reveals herself to be the daughter of a concentration camp prisoner and places loads of flesh eating maggots onto a screaming Hitler's face, would have been the ideal opportunity for some icky effects, but director Brad F. Grinter prefers to leave his film on a freeze frame of Der Fuhrer's face before things get too messy.Overall, a disappointing effort, and a sad swansong for Lake.

Michael_Elliott Flesh Feast (1970) BOMB (out of 4) Yes, sadly Veronica Lake's final film is as bad as you've heard. In the film a newspaper editor starts to do some investigating after his star reporter phones him up on a hot story only to soon after be murdered. The story then turns to Dr. Elaine Frederick (Lake), a mad scientist who is doing work on dead tissue for a secret experiment. FLESH FEAST is without question one of the worst horror films out there and the only question it really leaves the viewer with is if it's actually worse than director Brad F. Grinter's next movie BLOOD FREAK. No matter how you slice it this is a really bad movie that has very little going for it. I read a lot of posts with people asking why Lake would appear in something like this but the biggest question is why she'd put her own money up for a project like this. However, if you really think about it it's rather clear that her career wasn't going anywhere and I'm sure many told her that appearing in a film like this would get her name back out there and that the genre was easy to make money in. I'm really not sure where to start on the badness of this film but lets just say that there's really nothing good to mention. The performances are all extremely bad, although Lake doesn't come off as bad as she could have. Just check out the one lady who witnesses some "meat" in a basement around the forty-eight minute mark. The woman goes into a hysterical scream but before she runs out of the basement she turns to check out what made her scream again. The direction really can't be found but I'm going to guess that the main job was to bring it in on budget. The story itself is all over the place as it seems to jump around whenever it wants and without any explanation. The only half-way decent thing going on is the big twist in the final minutes, which has sadly been ruined by most reviews (even Leonard Maltin) that give it away. It's certainly campy to the extreme and it's a shame the rest of the movie wasn't as campy so that it would have been more entertaining. The 72-minutes really drag along and there's really nothing more that can be said.

BaronBl00d Without a doubt one of the most attractive and seductive ladies of the silver screen was Veronica Lake. She had a distinctive look and a distinctive quality that few actresses were ever able to duplicate. With such landmark films as Sullivan's Travels, The Glass Key, The Blue Dahlia, and This Gun for Hire under her belt, Veronica was a a star of epic proportions, and then things fell apart. She made a string of poorly conceived and received films, spiraled into the dark world of alcoholism and faded into obscurity. She died in the early 70's at the age of 53 from hepatitis. The 4'11 blonde bombshell reduced to an obscure reminder of a faded glory. Before her unfortunately uneventful death, Veronica made one last film in 1970 called Flesh Feast. The premise for Flesh Feast is as follows: a female doctor once connected with the Third Reich has developed a way to make men look younger through a treatment of using maggots, that have fed on human flesh, applied to their face. Intrigue abounds as former Nazis(strangely most of them having fake Italian accents)congregate in this home where science is buzzing with new scientific progress. The doctor and her espionage friends are waiting for Mr. Big to come. Well, to tell you any more would ruin the inane ending. It certainly is a very poorly crafted story. The film is poorly made on so many levels. You know you are in trouble when the name of the actor with top billing AFTER Ms. Lake is named Phil Philbin. I laughed for minutes seeing just his name and knew where this film was going: no where. There is almost no blood in this film. There are no scary moments. There is no suspense. The film seems to be nothing more than a few guys getting together in Florida with a personal movie camera and shooting the film. Of course it is the presence of Veronica Lake that is being sold. She had not made a movie at this time in five years and only one in the last ten years. It seems that alcohol had become such a part of her life that she was once found as a barmaid in a hotel. Ms. Lake gives a stilted performance at best, but clearly has more talent than anyone involved in front or behind the camera. The director shows her in those old woman pant suits so fashionable then...and now...and never tries to copy the common sense of Ms. Lake's previous directors. When your leading lady is 4'11, you just don't shoot wide shots that make her look like an aged midget against the backdrop of everything and everyone. Veronica has put some weight on and her face is a bit pudgy, but you can tell it is her. She still has that sparkle in her eyes. Although the movie is God awful in almost every way, it certainly should be seen for its value as a cinematic oddity. It is one of the rare chances of seeing a star that burned out... to soon. Fortunately for me, I shall always remember Ms. Lake for her films with Alan Ladd. They were Veronica Lake at her best. But I will remember Flesh Feast as well. It is not good nor horrifying, but a sad reminder what happened to such a wonderful actress.