A Filmmaker’s Flashback: My 2010 Interview with “The Godfather of Gore,” Herschell Gordon Lewis
“Any schmuck can aim a camera.”
In 2005, I interviewed nearly 75 creatives for a motivational non-fiction book, How to Survive a Day Job. My intent with the book was simple: I would interview a number of successful writers, actors, and others who have worked in a given creative arts field, to motivate those of us who had not yet attained our own artistic career goals.
The book was self-published and sold well. Though it’s long out of print, I’ve been reprinting several interviews a week on Medium. Check them out.
In 2010, I elected to return to the well and compose a sequel book, “You’re Too Smart to Go Down Stupid,” which would interview still more creatives. I made it through 30 new interviews … until life, and work, got in the way.
As the sequel book was neither completed nor published, the interviews from “You’re Too Smart to Go Down Stupid” will also be reprinted here, beginning with this one.
In his varied career, the late Herschell Gordon Lewis was a filmmaker, an English professor, an advertising executive and direct-mail consultant. As a filmmaker, he was best known for creating horror’s “splatter” films movement, beginning in 1963 with the release of “Blood Feast.” Though…
