Interview. Herschell Gordon Lewis.

"What redeems your exploitive gore films - if redemption is even necessary - is their abiding sense of humor. Can you speak some about the strategic blend of horror and humor?" asks Michael Guillén.

"I can," replies direct marketing expert and "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis, "and I'd be delighted to because - if we get to make Grim's Fairy Tales, and I've been in negotiation for months and months with somebody to produce this thing - it is in my opinion, at least for the time being, the ultimate blend between gore and humor. You see, we've come through future shock and rocketed out the other end of it. The day of just raw - what should I call it? - bloodletting is about to go into eclipse. We have movies that are unrelentingly unpleasant. For my stuff, I want the audience to sit there and realize that we didn't take any of it seriously and that they don't take any of it seriously."

Posted by dwhudson at March 28, 2007 1:19 AM