Herschell Gordon Lewis has never fooled himself into believing that throughout his fifty-year career he was making anything other than crap. Much like his 1960s counterpart Russ Meyer, Lewis’ output has ranged from guilty pleasures to abominations, but it is in the years since his retirement during the early 1970s that his legacy as the [...]
Published on: 27th November, 2009
Herschell Gordon Lewis had never been known for his subtly. Having conquered the ‘nudie cutie’ genre with Living Venus (loosely based on the life of Playboy’s Hugh Hefner), Nature’s Playmates and Boin-n-g in the early 1960s, Lewis and his producing partner, David F. Friedman, then turned their attention to gore with Blood Feast, supposedly [...]