The Wars of Justinian (Hackett Classics)

Description

Dubbed ※The Godfather of Gore,§ no other exploitation filmmaker made the most of scant budgets, short shooting schedules and amateur special effects like the legendary Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Making his mark with
in 1963 and helming such notorious splatter-shockers as
(1964),
(1967) and
(1972), the director provoked generations of indebted genre stylists 每 from John Waters and Frank Henenlotter to Eli Roth and Damien Leone, with his hit
franchise.
This is the first academic study into the work of Lewis, covering not just his bloodstained celluloid, but also his background in sexploitation and infomercials. In doing so, this entry in the
series takes one of cinema＊s most influential low budget craftsmen out of the grindhouse and considers him as an Avant Garde auteur in his own right.