Exclusive: Nab an Inside Look at The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Box Set!
Gareth Jones
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Fans of the sadly departed H.G. Lewis, celebrated copywriter and ‘Godfather of Gore’, are in for a treat with what appears to be the superlative quality of Arrow Video’s upcoming Shock and Gore: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Limited Edition box sets. To stoke your appetite for these collections of memorable and influential exploitation oddities, here’s an intimate gallery of the packaging and contents of the second set for you to feast your eyes on…
Shock and Gore: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis and The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast box sets will be available to buy on October 24th in the UK and 25th in the US.
From the Press Release:
In 1963, director Herschell Gordon Lewis pulled a cow’s tongue out of an actress’ mouth on camera, and in doing so, changed the landscape of horror cinema forever. That sequence was just one of numerous gruesome gags featured in Blood Feast, the film credited as being the world’s first gore movie. It’s no exaggeration to say that the modern gross-out movies of today owe their very existence to the pioneering efforts of H.G. Lewis.
But whilst Lewis is most widely celebrated for his blood-and-guts epics (Two Thousand Maniacs!, The Wizard of Gore et al.), there’s more to the prolific director than splatter. From tales of sordid photographers (Scum of the Earth) to sex robots (How to Make a Doll), from biker girl-gangs (She-Devils on Wheels) to youths-run-amok (Just for the Hell of It), and from psychic witches (Something Weird) to hard liquor-loving hillbillies (Moonshine Mountain), the filmography of H.G. Lewis reads like a veritable wish-list of exploitation movie madness.
Now, for the first time ever, Arrow Video is proud to present fourteen of the Godfather of Gore’s most essential films (including nine Blu-ray world debuts), collected together at last and packed full of eye-popping bonus content. So put your feet up, pour yourself a glass of good ol’ moonshine, and prepare yourself for a feast – H.G. Lewis style!
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