Herschell Gordon Lewis
Also Known As: Lewis H. Gordon, Mark Hansen, Marvin Lester, H.G. Lewis, Herschell G. Lewis, Georges Parades, George Parades, Armand Parys, Armand Pays, Francis X. Ploitation, Marvin Lester Schmidt, Sheldon S. Seymour, Sheldon Seymour, Seymour Sheldon, R.L. Smith
Biography: Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1926 - September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Deathday: September 26, 2016
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Chainsaw Sally
Overview: Sally is a young woman living two lives: a calmly librarian by day, and a brutal serial killer by night where she randomly targets any man or woman whom even slightly upsets her. Sally lives with her reclusive, transvestite younger brother Rudy whom assists her with the killings. Both Sally and Ruby were traumatized as children when both of them witnessed three lunatics murder their mother and father before they, with 'Daddy's' help, killed the three murderous psychos.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-02
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Blood, Guts and Sunshine: The History of Horror Made in Florida
Overview: Explore the independent horror film scene that Florida has been vigorously pumping out since the invention of film. Jam-packed with Interviews, exploitation, never-before-seen footage and cinema madness. Watch and learn about films new and old in this exclusive documentary made for cult horror fans.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-08
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Horror Business
Overview: The movie covers the careers of five up-and-coming horror-movie loving directors – Mark Borchardt ('Coven'), Ron Atkins ('Necromaniac'), Dave Stagnari ('Catharsis'), John Gora ('Chirpy'), and Brian Singleton.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Blood Feast
Overview: In the sleepy suburbs of Miami, seemingly normal Egyptian immigrant Fuad Ramses runs a successful catering business. He also murders young women and plans to use their body parts to revive the goddess Ishtar. The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, Suzette Fremont, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-06
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Scum of the Earth!
Overview: A naive and innocent teenage girl is blackmailed into modeling in the nude for a photographer who is in league with a teenage gang whose boss illegally sells photos of teenage girls being abused and degraded.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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American Grindhouse
Overview: This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-04
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Divine Trash
Overview: The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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They Came from the Swamp: The Films of William Grefé
Overview: Savage! Sadistic! Thrill hungry! When it came to independent filmmaking in the sunshine state, William Grefé was the wildest of the wild! During the 1960s and '70s, the Miami-based producer/director transformed the darkest corners of the Florida swamps into his own personal backlot. From rampaging crocodiles possessed by an ancient Seminole witch doctor (DEATH CURSE OF TARTU) to a slithering serpent named STANLEY, William Grefé would grind out low-budget exploitation films for drive-ins and hardtops around the world. Now, without the benefit of cages or other protective devices, the untold story of Florida's most daring moviemaker comes to the screen...IN PSYCHEDELIC COLOR!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-19
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How Herschell Found His Niche
Overview: Lewis discusses his early work in nudie cuties and the making of The Adventures of Lucky Pierre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-25
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Psycho Holocaust
Overview: On a scorching summer day 6 friends venture into the mountains for one more vacation before their lives change forever. Unbeknownst to them, their lives would forever be changed anyway. In the shadows awaits a pack of the most evil, the most vile, rejects of humanity that's addicted to violence and thirsty for blood! This is Psycho Holocaust... Written by Rufty, Krist
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Overview: In 2009, Sean Baker sat down with the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis, to discuss his legendary career as an exploitation pioneer and creator of the splatter movie. In 2019, the footage formed the basis for this documentary produced by the Criterion Channel.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-27
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Tonight You Die
Overview: The sun rose on the campsite, shedding light on the hellish carnage. A young woman's lifeless body was slumped against a tree, slashed open. Her husband lies nearby, in a mutilated heap. The fire flickers, revealing the charred remains of their unborn child. Who would commit such an atrocity? The police are clueless, but someone knows the truth. Fueled by a savage lust for revenge and a brutal appetite for death, they set out to find the killer in a blood-drenched quest for retribution
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-16
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Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Overview: Take an outrageous ride through this wild world of exploitation films with this thoroughly entertaining documentary, HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS – THE GODFATHER OF GORE! 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!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Smash Cut
Overview: Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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Living Venus
Overview: Man and his partner, a photographer, start up a men's magazine called "Pagan." The magazine becomes a success, he leaves his fiancee, marries his star model, and complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Bits and Pieces: Bringing Death to Life
Overview: Starting off as a brief history of horror and slasher films, various people take about Hammer films, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and various other notable horror films. Moving onto the original "Final Destination", and the particapents go on to part 2.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Goldilocks and the Three Bares
Overview: Nightclub singer Eddie and comedian Tommy, working in a roaring twenties style club, meet and being dating publicist Allison and photographer Cynthia, respectively. They soon discover that the women spend weekends at a nudist club which the guys disapprove.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-06
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Blood Feast
Overview: Fuad Ramses and his family have moved from the United States to France, where they run a American diner. Since business is not going too well, Fuad also works night shifts in a museum of Egyptian culture. During these long lonely nights he is repeatedly drawn to a statue representing the seductive ancient goddess ISHTAR. He becomes more and more allured by the goddess as she speaks to him in visions. Eventually he succumbs to her deadly charms.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-27
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The Alley Tramp
Overview: A teenage girl sets out on a sexual odyssey of having affairs with various men including her mother's secret boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Terror Toons 3
Overview: Picking up exactly where the original left off. This 3rd installment tells the tale of Cindy and her little sister Candy fighting the good fight with the help of their friends against evil Dr. Carnage and his abominable sidekick, Max Assassin. Enter the darken, kaleidoscope colored world of the cartoon dimension where anything is possible. Where everyone is subject to a blood splattered crazy cartoon death
Genres: Comedy Thriller Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-07
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Under the Scares
Overview: Cheap scares. Extreme Gore. Loads of nudity. These have been the three staples of low budget independent horror films since the 60's. But what's a filmmaker to do when, thanks to technology, ANYONE can make a film these days? Under The Scares offers an inside look into the production and promotion of an independent, ultra low-budget horror film, while combining interviews and insights from some of the genre's biggest legends - Lloyd Kaufman, Robert Kurtzman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank Henenlotter, Gary Jones, and many many more.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Crystalstone
Overview: Deserted by their father and with their mother dead, nine-year-old Pablo and his little sister Maria refuse to be separated from each other by their caretaker aunt. With a cross as their guide, they embark on a perilous, but ultimately rewarding adventure in search of a mystical gem that holds the key to happiness. They escape the fearsome metal hook of a pirate and are helped by a delightfully drunken Captain in their quest for the magic stone.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-01
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Something Weird
Overview: An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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A Taste of Blood
Overview: A businessman turns into a vampire after drinking brandy laced with vampire blood and sets out on an odyssey of killing the descendants of Dracula's executioners.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-09
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The Gruesome Twosome
Overview: An elderly woman has her son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-28
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How to Make a Doll
Overview: A nerdy professor who has no luck with women builds beautiful female robots to satisfy his sexual desires.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-06
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B-Documentary
Overview: B-Documentary is about independent filmmakers starting their careers, film vs. digital, how to make it in the business without giving in to Hollywood standards, and much much more. Some of the people that are documented in this film are legends such as Lloyd Kaufman, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Bill Johnson, Lisa Gaye, D.J. Calvitto, Patrick Madcox, and Nurse Hatchet.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-14
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Killer Campout
Overview: Two youth counselors bring a group of emotionally troubled teens deep into the woods for a weekend of solitude and confrontational therapy. The trip turns deadly when they are terrorized by a cannibalistic hermit with a thirst for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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7 Deadly Sins: Inside The Ecomm Cult
Overview: Cults are real...this 'mockumentary' isn't. Godfather of Gore movies Herschell Gordon Lewis plays a detective who tells the story of the Ecomm Cult, operated by the polygamist Doctor Smoke.
Genres: Comedy Crime Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-19
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Book of Lore
Overview: When Rick's girlfriend is found brutally murdered, he and his friends must band together to solve the mystery. Strange circumstances lead them to a bizarre encyclopedia of local murders. As the bodies pile, Rick must come to terms with his town's unspeakable past.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-07
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Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Overview: When it comes to producing, no one speaks with more authority than Lloyd Kaufman creator of The Toxic Avenger and founder of the longest-running independent film studio, Troma Entertainment. Over the years he has discovered talents such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park, The Book of Mormon) and Vincent D'Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) to name a few. Candid interviews, tips, tricks and tidbits scattered throughout the DVD give filmmakers practical tools for getting a movie shoot off the ground, keeping it afloat and seeing it through to the end - Lloyd Kaufman shows you how it's really done.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-13
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Jimmy, the Boy Wonder
Overview: A boy makes a reckless wish, and everybody in the world stops moving. A wizard's daughter tries to help him get the world restarted again.
Genres: Family Music Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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An Evening with H.G. Lewis
Overview: Video documentation of a talk/Q&A session, with some behind-the-scenes footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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That's Sexploitation!
Overview: Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American cinema's gloriously sordid cinematic past. Starting in the 1920s, expert exploiteer David F. Friedman and Henenlotter navigate us through more than five salacious decades of skin flicks. It's the true story of dirty movies, traced in elegant detail from the bizarre locations where these nudie shorts were screened to the ongoing legal battles fought by their promoters. And of course there are the stories of the innovators themselves, people who often risked their own security and livelihood to make these films, believing in some way that what they were doing wasn't a 'bad' thing - and that it could rake in some dough.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-25
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