Herschell Gordon Lewis Filmography

Hunting for Herschell

Actors: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Ford D'Aprix, Jarrod Canepa, Allison Fabre

Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat

Crew: Director

Actors: J. P. Delahoussaye, John "Spud" McConnell, Mark McLachlan, Toni Wynne, Kristi Polit

Synopsis: Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman, the director/producer team who made exploitation film history in the early 1960s with their then-daring "nudie cuties" and later the first "gore" films, return to the scene of their most infamous project with this sequel, which marked their first Read More

Divine Trash

Actors: John Waters, Jeanine Basinger, Steve Buscemi, Ken Jacobs

Synopsis: A documentary profile of filmmaker John Waters, Divine Trash focuses on the bad-taste pioneer's early years, especially his 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos, which turned the director of Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs into the king of midnight movies thanks to word of mouth about the film's Read More

Noche De Los Mil Gatos

Crew: Special Effects

Synopsis: In the Mexican horror film The Night of the Thousand Cats, the villain of the story is a handsome, wealthy playboy (Hugo Stiglitz) who likes to make love to vast numbers of lovely women. For some reason, once he has had his way with them, he decapitates them, preserves their heads in alcohol, and Read More

The Gore Gore Girls

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Special Effects

Actors: Henny Youngman

Synopsis: Infamous exploitation icon Herschell Gordon Lewis wrapped up his lengthy foray into low-budget gore epics with this coda, which not only sports Lewis' most creative title, but revels in an amazing barrage of outrageous (and patently fake-looking) makeup effects. The nominal plot involves a masked Read More

This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Synopsis: A renegade backwoods reverend practices what he preaches and gets into all sorts of trouble with the FBI and some of his more upstanding parishioners in this lurid crime drama that was originally made to be shown on the Southern drive-in exploitation film circuit. The preacher's problems begin Read More

Year of the Yahoo

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The final installment in cult filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis' loosely knit hillbilly trilogy (Moonshine Mountain and This Stuff'll Kill Ya! are the other two) stars country & western singer Claude King as (of all things) a country & western singer. Some stereotypical scuzzballs from Washington Read More

Stick It in Your Ear

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A long-haired, bearded young man wakes up in the ruins of an abandoned church and can't remember who he is or where he's been. He wanders around town, trying to find anybody who knows or recognizes him and can tell him who he is. During his search he runs into hippies, drug dealers and anti-war Read More

The Wizard of Gore

Crew: Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: A sinister illusionist gets away with ghastly murders on-stage in this unique horror story. Though Montag the Magnificent (Ray Sager) appears to be eviscerating beautiful volunteers from the audience with railroad spikes, chainsaws, and punch presses, the girls always smile afterward and walk away Read More

Ecstasies of Women

Crew: Director

Just for the Hell of It

Crew: Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: A violent gang of teenage miscreants terrorize their city with a rash of cruel practical jokes, vicious assaults, and random vandalism. When one of the hoods threatens an upstanding young man named Doug (Rodney Bedell), the gang's leader Dexter (Ray Sager) nixes the fight. Some time before, Doug Read More

The Psychic

Crew: Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: Dan Thomas (Dick Genola) is a successful advertising man who falls off a ladder while attempting repairs on his house. The blow to his head knocks him cold and necessitates a brain operation that imbues him with bizarre powers. After shaking hands with his boss, he foresees the man's death and is Read More

She-Devils on Wheels

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis directed this outrageously campy story of an all-female motorcycle gang called The Man-Eaters. The butch, chain-wielding women pick men to service them from a line-up, fight with male bikers, and hold orgies. Nancy Lee Noble (The Girl, the Body, and the Pill) Read More

Blast-Off Girls

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Harland Sanders

Synopsis: Boojie Baker (Dan Conway) is an unscrupulous rock band manager who loses the group he's handling when they confront him about his larcenous business dealings. Undeterred, the arrogant Baker picks out a new band: an unsuccessful group of guys on the verge of breaking up. He promises them wine and Read More

A Taste of Blood

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Unseen for many years, this vampire epic from cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis runs over two hours in length. Bill Rogers (Shanty Tramp) plays John Stone, who becomes a modern-day vampire after drinking some imported brandy. The usual phony gore and wretched dialogue follow, and Lewis appears Read More

The Gruesome Twosome

Crew: Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: This minor gore-comedy from cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis stars Elizabeth Davis as an elderly wigmaker. Her son murders women and scalps them to provide hair for the wigs, choosing victims from the college students who rent rooms in their home. The humor is of the slapstick, vaudeville Read More

Suburban Roulette

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Actors: Elizabeth Wilkinson, Bennie Moore, Vicki Miles, Tony McCabe

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast) directed this surprisingly tame exploitation film about the then-hot topic of suburban wife-swapping. A couple moves into their new house and are soon turned on to the swingers' lifestyle by their naughty neighbors. Their daring fling culminates Read More

Something Weird

Crew: Cinematographer, Director

Synopsis: In this horror adventure, a man named Cronin Mitchell (Tony McCabe) survives a horrible electrical accident, but ends up with a terribly scarred face. He also finds that he has developed strange psychic and telekinetic powers. His maimed face depresses him and he strikes a bargain with a witch Read More

Jimmy, the Boy Wonder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once in every thousand years, the Great Clock of Time opens to admit the rays of the sun, and that is when it is most vulnerable, when even a simple spoken wish can stop its timing. It's the first day of school, and a frustrated little boy named Jimmy (Dennis Jones) rouses the magical meanie Mr. Read More

Alley Tramp

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: A teenager develops a ravenous appetite for physical love in this vintage sexploitation drama. Marie (Julie Ames) is a sixteen-year-old girl whose sexual curiosity goes into overdrive when she comes home one evening to discover her parents making love with no small enthusiasm. The next day Read More

An Eye for an Eye

Crew: Director

Monster a Go-Go!

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: A space capsule is shot into orbit to investigate some mysterious satellites. Suddenly, communications are lost and the ship crash lands in a field. Astronaut Frank Douglas is missing and the helicopter pilot who discovered the accident is found dead, his body shrivelled and distorted. Soon other Read More

Color Me Blood Red

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Actors: Don Joseph

Synopsis: The third film in cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis' infamous "Gore Trilogy," this overwrought horror film is one of many inferior derivations of Roger Corman's classic A Bucket of Blood (1959). Don Joseph stars as Adam Sorg, a pompous artist who discovers that human blood provides his Read More

Two Thousand Maniacs!

Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter, Special Effects

Synopsis: Drive-in gore king Herschell Gordon Lewis reached a creative peak with this darkly comic slaughterfest about six vacationing Yanks who fall victim to the cheerfully violent Southern hospitality of Pleasant Valley. Made the guests of honor in the town's centennial celebration, the hapless visitors Read More

Moonshine Mountain

Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Special Effects

Synopsis: Grim and gory, this trashy drama chronicles the exploits of a sexually frustrated psycho killer who terrorizes a backwoods Carolina community and butchers the girl friend of a country western singer after she refuses to service. Just before the wacko is about to blow up an entire town, he is Read More

Blood Feast

Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Director, Producer, Special Effects

Actors: Connie Mason

Synopsis: Herschell Gordon Lewis, the acknowledged "Godfather of Gore," shattered taboos against graphic violence onscreen with this bloody horror film. Mal Arnold plays Fuad Ramses, a mad Egyptian caterer with bushy eyebrows who is gathering body parts to use in a "Blood Feast" to honor the ancient goddess Read More

Scum of the Earth

Crew: Director

Actors: Thomas Wood

Synopsis: This exploitative morality tale from cult director Herschell Gordon Lewis tells the story of Kim (Vickie Miles), a naive high-school girl lured into a pornography ring by photographer Harmon (Thomas Wood) and aging model Sandra (Sandra Sinclair). Kim is told that she can earn money for college by Read More

Bell, Bare and Beautiful

Crew: Director

Actors: David F. Friedman

Synopsis: This late-period nudie-cutie was directed by exploitation specialist Herschell Gordon Lewis. William Kerwin stars as a millionaire obsessed with a stranger, who turns out to be stripper Gina Adair (Virginia Bell). The pair travel to the Spartan's Tropical Gardens naturist colony in Miami, where Read More

Goldilocks and the Three Bares

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This early Herschell Gordon Lewis film was originally planned to be a nudist musical (!), but most of the music wound up being cut out. Set in the 1920s, it tells of two men, a singer and a comedian, who work in a Miami nightclub. They are both dating beautiful women, but for some reason the girls Read More

The Adventures of Lucky Pierre

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When Russ Meyer ushered in the age of the nudie-cuties with The Immoral Mr. Teas, he chose to employ a parody of Jacques Tati's popular "Mr. Hulot" comedies. Not to let a good idea pass him by, exploitation master Herschell Gordon Lewis copied that formula here with an hour of comic blackouts Read More

Living Venus

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: This entertaining story about the rise and fall of a Hugh Hefner-like publisher named Jack Norwall (William Kerwin) may be quite a surprise to those who only know director Herschell Gordon Lewis for his later gore films. Fired from his job at Newlywed magazine, Kerwin vows to start his own Read More