Color Me Blood Red
Written and Directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis
USA/1975
First viewing/Netflix rental
[box] Rolf: Listen, pal, you’d be rude, too, if you saw your girl tied up, and a man with an axe in one hand and a bloody mess in the other. And a corpse outside there on the beach.[/box]
Thus is the third in Lewis’s “Blood Trilogy”, following “Blood Feast” and “Two Thousand Maniacs”. In this one, a painter is criticized for his drab color schemes until he comes up with the idea of smearing his paintings with blood collected from his scantily clad models. The gore would be disgusting if it weren’t so fake. I really didn’t need to see all three of these movies and neither, probably, do you. The complete film is also available on YouTube currently.
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Directed by Frank Hennenlotter and Jimmy Maslin
US/2010
First viewing/Amazon Instant
[box] I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form. — Herschell Gordon Lewis[/box]
This documentary and Lewis’s commentaries on his films are by far the most interesting facets of watching the films themselves, Lewis took nothing seriously except the bottom liine and is quite a story teller. Recommended for fans.
