Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Frank Henenlotter & Jimmy Maslon | |
Subject: | Herschell Gordon Lewis | |
Interviewee: | John Waters & Herschell Gordon Lewis |
Entertainment Reviews:
This entertaining portrait of the legendary exploitation filmmaker is probably more fun than actually watching his films.
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Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3/5 --
It would be naive not to expect bad taste in a movie about bad taste.
Jam! Movies
Rating: 2/5 --
Initially enjoyable, the doc grows overindulgent of its subject.
NOW Toronto
There are myriad reasons why the term "torture porn" never made sense and one of the most important is the irrevocable impact Herschell Gordon Lewis's schlocky gore cinema had on American movies.
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House Next Door
Crammed with clips, behind-the-scenes footage and other archival material, this documentary love letter to pioneering exploitation filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis is aimed squarely at fans of his boundary-testing gore and nudie movies.
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Film Journal International
Product Description:
Explore the career of the filmmaker responsible for inventing the modern gore film in this documentary featuring interviews with such ardent fans and followers as PINK FLAMINGOES director John Waters and famed drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs. In the beginning, Hershell Gordon Lewis titillated moviegoers with "Nudie Cuties" -- films which featured pretty young women in various states of undress. His career took a decidedly gruesome turn, however, when he unleashed BLOOD FEAST on unsuspecting grindhouse audiences in 1963. A film that reveled in viscera, BLOOD FEAST pushed the boundaries of gore in a manner that was positively shocking for the time. And Lewis was only getting started; in the years that followed he continued to shock moviegoers with such unapologetically repulsive horror films as TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!, THE GRUESOME TWOSOME, and THE WIZARD OF GORE. In this film, movie fans get the unique opportunity to explore one of the most fascinating - and morbid -- chapters in the history of cinema.
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