When “the Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis, passed away in 2016, his final movie was 2009’s The Uh-Oh! Show. That footnote since has been supplanted by Herschell Gordon Lewis’ BloodMania, a four-part anthology that’s at least four times worse than the previous worst thing he had done, which is really saying something — and … Continue reading Herschell Gordon Lewis’ BloodMania (2017)
In honor of psychotronic film legend Herschell Gordon Lewis, who died yesterday at the age of 87, we’ve raided our vaults to present every review we’ve run thus far involving the groundbreaking “godfather of gore.” Rest in pieces, sir! • Doctor Gore (1973) • Gods of Grindhouse: Interviews with Exploitation Filmmakers edited by Andrew J. Rausch … Continue reading R.I.P. Herschell Gordon Lewis
For nearly an hour of its hour, The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare consists of a naked woman being drawn or photographed for artistic purposes. How does the narrator make that interesting? Beats me, because he doesn’t. Director and writer Sande N. Johnsen (Teenage Gang Debs) doesn’t seem to know, either, although he tries … Continue reading The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare (1964)
What do you think about when you hear the word “blood”? Are you obsessed with death and dying? Have you ever wanted to kill someone? Please answer carefully; you could win the right to beget the son of a serial killer! With a mansion and a mullet, charismatic photographer Jack T. Rippington (Blake Bahner, Caged … Continue reading Fatal Exposure (1989)
After covering the filmographies of Herschell Gordon Lewis and Ted V. Mikels, Christopher Wayne Curry turns his completist’s eye to a more difficult subject with The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler. Certainly this is the only text to draw a dotted line between the director of Rat Pfink a Boo Boo and Luis … Continue reading The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler