Herschell Gordon Lewis (born 15 June 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a film-maker better known for creating a "splatter film" subgenre of horror. He is typically known as a "Godfather of Gore", though his film career involved works within the range of genres including juvenile delinquent films, rural-themed comedies, and potentially deuce childrens films.

Collaborating using film producer David F. Friedman, he directed a series of nudie films in the early 1960s, before making his mark with 1963's seminal Blood Feast. Both Thousand Maniacs! (1964) and Color Us Blood Red (1965) followed the equivalent damn formula. the good-colour gore inside display in these films induced a sensation, by owning horror film-makers throughout the world becoming zealous to saturate their productions by owning similar shocking favorite results.

He stopped working by using Friedman in a period of the 1960s, but continued to produce farther gore films into a 1970s. Universally resourceful despite a moo budgets he worked sustaining, Lewis purchased a rights to an bare film & completed it himself, re-titling a film Monster A Go Go (1965). Numerous years afterwards, a film gained ill fame when existence shown on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television show (these are rated a third worst film ever at a Internet Movie Database).

He followed higher by having 2 freaky childrens films (Jemmy a Son Question (1966) and A Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)) which were padded out to feature film length by incorporating hanker foreign-mass produced cartoons. At a equivalent period he was continuing to operate within more genres, though people films quickly vanished into obscurity: Lewis' 1972 film Black Love, apparently a nudie film by using an completely African American cast, has completely disappeared. Month Of The Yahoo! (1972) was as well believed wasted, though the largely complete print is nowadays available in DVD.

Fallowing A Gore Gore Girls (1972) he decided to leave the industry to operate around copywriting and direct marketing. He returned to directing around 2002 with Blood Feast 2: Completely U Could Eat.