In 1963, Herschell Gordon Lewis created the splatter film genre with the outrageously violent Blood Feast. It delivered plenty of on screen gore, but as an actual film it was a little rough around the edges (to put it mildly). After Blood Feast’s amazing success, Lewis returned to the genre a year later with Two Thousand Maniacs! and the minds of a millions young horror fans were permanently warped. With its rather bizarre blend of comedy and extreme violence, Two Thousand Maniacs! was a big step up in entertainment value from the static limp style of Blood Feast. Lewis’ films
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