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Herschell Gordon Lewis
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Herschell Gordon Lewis (June 15, 1929 – September 26, 2016) was an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter" subgenre of horror films. In the 1964 film "Two Thousand Maniacs!", Herschell Gordon Lewis sings the title song. He is often called the "Godfather of Gore", though his film career included works in a range of exploitation film genres including juvenile delinquent films, nudie-cuties, two children's films and at least one rural comedy. On Lewis' career, AllMovie wrote: "With his better-known gore films, Herschell Gordon Lewis was a pioneer, going farther than anyone else dared, probing the depths of disgust and discomfort onscreen with more bad taste and imagination than anyone of his era." Herschell Gordon Lewis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1929. His father died when he was six years old. His mother never remarried; and his family then moved to Chicago, Illinois where Lewis spent the majority of his adolescence. After graduating from high school, Lewis received a master's degree in Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A few years later, he became a professor of English literature at Mississippi State University. He was lured from his teaching career to become the manager of WRAC Radio in Racine, Wisconsin, and later to become a studio director at WKY-TV studio in Oklahoma City. In 1953, Lewis began working for a friend's advertising agency in Chicago while teaching graduate advertising courses at night at Roosev
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The Eye Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume Eight
Two Thousand Maniacs!
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Eat Me! Best of Cannibal Movie Soundtracks
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Volume 8
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The Eye-Popping Sounds Of
The Eye-Popping Sounds of Herschell Gordon Lewis
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2 Themes
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Lux and Ivy's Favorites Vol. 8
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The Eye-Popping Sounds Of Nerschell Gordon Lewis
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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The Gore Gore Girls