Herschell Gordon Lewis was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore", though his film career included works in a range of exploitation film genres including juvenile delinquent films, nudie-cuties, two children's films and at least one rural comedy. On Lewis' career, AllMovie wrote, "With his better-known gore films, Herschell Gordon Lewis was a pioneer, going farther than anyone else dared, probing the depths of disgust and discomfort onscreen with more bad taste and imagination than anyone of his era."
Herschell Gordon Lewis
Active - 1956 - 2017 |
Birth - Jun 15, 1926 |
Death - Sep 26, 2016 |
Genres - Horror, Comedy, Drama, Documentary, Thriller
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Subgenres - Slasher Film, Splatter Film, Comedy Horror, Exploitation Film, Sexploitation Film
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Armand Parys, Armand Pays, Francis X. Ploitation, George Parades, Georges Parades, Godfather Of Gore, H.G. Lewis, Herschell G. Lewis, Lewis H. Gordon, Mark Hansen, Marvin Lester, Marvin Lester Schmidt, R.L. Smith, Seymour Sheldon, Sheldon S. Seymour, Sheldon Seymour-
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