The Incredibly Strange Film Show

Season 1, Episode 2

Episode Title: Herschell Gordon Lewis

Air Date: 1988-08-19

Overview:

Drive-In pioneer Lewis is interviewed at a country club in Florida where he details his beginnings in nudie cuties, his successful partnership with Dave Friedman which resulted in the Blood Trilogy (Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs and Color Me Blood Red), and a late-life career reappraisal where a new cult of devoted followers crowned him the “Godfather of Gore.”