https://vo.rs/tags/herschell-gordon-lewis/Latest from the Herschell-Gordon-Lewis desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/herschell-gordon-lewis-the-godfather-of-gore/<p>There is a temptation, whenever a genre gets invented, to build a cathedral around the man who did it. Herschell Gordon Lewis would have found that funny. He held a doctorate in English, taught at Mississippi State, ran an advertising agency, and made films the way a smart operator works any market with a gap in it: he found something nobody else was selling and he sold it first. That something was blood, shown outright and held on screen long enough to become the whole point of the show. In 1963 he made a picture called <em>Blood Feast</em> and, more or less by accident, opened a door the medium has never managed to shut.</p>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +0000