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Apr 9, 2024 · There can be no denying that Herschell Gordon Lewis was a unique and uncompromising if unconventional producer and director, determined to push boundaries and shock viewers with his ultra-low budget horrors, a provocateur not unlike the protagonist of his 1970 feature The Wizard of Gore, the tale of stage magician and mesmerist Montag the Magnificent, who clad in a red-lined black cape stands ...
Apr 13, 2024 · Featuring cult director John Waters, Drive-In Movie Critic Joe Bob Briggs, Herschell Gordon Lewis himself and a “cast of thousands,” you’ll witness the innocent bare-naked era of Nudie-Cuties before Lewis schocked the world with “Blood Feast,” the first ever gore film!
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Apr 17, 2024 · Scum of the Earth! (1963) Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Harmon Johnson (William Kerwin) is a porn photographer with a bohemian appearance and a coaxing nature. Sandy (Sandra Sinclair) is the vivacious blonde-haired model who poses for Harmon’s immodest camera. “Okay Sandy, let’s shoot something interesting.
Apr 7, 2024 · Like a lot of classic cult directors, Herschell Gordon Lewis got his start making nudie pictures. Unlike his contemporaries, however, Lewis was a college professor and ad executive before he delved into the seedy world of trash cinema. After filming a few nudist pics, Lewis got the wild idea to make a horror, and it would forever change the genre.
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Apr 23, 2024 · One of the first “grindhouse” movies of its kind, Herschell Gordon Lewis’s followup to 1962’s “Blood Feast” is credited both with pioneering on-screen gore and providing scared Northerners with exaggerated fears of Southerners as mentally deranged psychopaths who adhere to the unusual traditions of sacrificing humans to the ghosts ...
Apr 23, 2024 · Is “A Taste of Blood” a bloody film? Yes, the movie does contain graphic scenes of violence and bloodshed. Herschell Gordon Lewis, known as the “Godfather of Gore,” leaves his signature mark by incorporating elements of shock and horror throughout the film. 8. Does “A Taste of Blood” offer deeper social commentary?
Apr 18, 2024 · As much as the Hammer Dracula movies played at blood and guts, they could never outdo the Godfather of Gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis. With no great theater actors at the ready, Lewis had to go for shock value for A Taste of Blood. It stars Bill Rogers as businessman John Stone, who becomes a manifestation of Dracula after drinking brandy laced ...
