There are few things more immediately associated with horror cinema than gruesome images of blood and gore. But it wasn't always like this. For the first 60 years of the film genre, there was very little gore to be found on screen at all. But this all changed in 1963 with a movie that painted the genre blood red forever, Blood Feast!

In this episode of Years of Fear, we are exploring the relationship of gore and horror going all the way back to the late 19th century in France, the movie that introduced the idea of gore to cinema, and the man who had only previously directed sleazy sexploitation films who changed horror forever.

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