The Splatter Film Thread

[J. Tithonus Pednaud]

Herschell Levis was the originator of the gore genre. Blood Beast came out in '63, just three years after Psycho. In Psycho the camera cuts to the blood seeping down the drain in the infamous shower scene - making the audience horrified. In Blood Beast, the camera zooms into a violent and graphic amputation - making the audience sick.

Lewis went on to make a bunch of other gore films. Perhaps most notably Wizard of Gore, which is currently getting the remake treatment starring Crispin Glover and Jeffery Combs.