![]() ![]() ![]() There is an energy and atmosphere to his work unlike any of the era, existing in a sickly parallel world where sadistic killers lurk in every innocent neighborhood, masking themselves in any gimmicky profession imaginable. But what any of Lewis’s films lack in budget, they make up for in sheer personality. It is a cheap endeavor, filled with hammy acting and narrow production values when there is no blood in need of spilling. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, a film he saw as cheating its way into mass appeal by keeping the killing cheekily hidden away, Lewis took a new direction and made Blood Feast, now considered the first splatter film. A patriarch of the video nasty era, Lewis often shares the title of “Godfather of Gore” with giallo maestro Lucio Fulci. One of the many deep corners of cinema that I have wandered into in the past few months has been the filmography of one Herschell Gordon Lewis. ![]()
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