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Sep 27, 2016 · Herschell Gordon Lewis: 1929-2016. The late Herschell Gordon Lewis, the self-proclaimed "Godfather of Gore," was not the first filmmaker to exploit violence for commercial means; if you leaf through the Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, you'll see a few other gory entertainments listed before Lewis’ infamous 1963 feature “Blood Feast ...
Sep 28, 2016 · Sept. 27, 2016. Herschell Gordon Lewis, a director who set new standards for gore and violence in the early 1960s with the low-budget films “Blood Feast” and “Two Thousand Maniacs!,” died on...
Sep 26, 2016 · Sept. 26, 2016 4:20 PM PT. Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the “godfather of gore,” has died. He was 87. The director of such films as “Blood Feast” and “Two Thousand...
Sep 27, 2016 · Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the "godfather of gore", has died at the age of 87. He directed films such as Blood Feast, The Gruesome Twosome and Two Thousand Maniacs....
Sep 26, 2016 · Horror filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis, known as the “Godfather of Gore” for his bloody exploitation movies that launched the splatter genre in the 1960s with films such as “Blood Feast” and...
Gordon Lewis. Producer: Mical. In 1970, Gordon worked at London Weekend Television part of ITV television network after leaving school and working in London Palladium, until 20 years of age. In 1975, he left LWT and joined one of the first independent production companies, Mike Mansfield Productions in London at the age of 21, which later he became a partner.
Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore" (a title also given to Lucio Fulci ), though his film career included works in a range of exploitation film genres including juvenile delinquent ...
