We have just learned via our friend Lisa Petrucci on the Something Weird Video Facebook page that pioneering “Godfather of Gore” Herschell Gordon Lewis passed away.
But it was with 1963’s landmark gore opera Blood Feast that Lewis found the fame that would forever forge and define his pop culture legacy.
Blood Feast was a huge hit and Lewis followed it with equally notorious pictures like 1964’s Two Thousand Maniacs!, 1967’s The Gruesome Twosome and 1970’s The Wizard of Gore.
This writer met Lewis on several occasions and even performed with him live.