The incredibly popular, violent horror films of recent decades, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday The 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, owe much of their existence to the undisputed Godfather of Gore - Herschell Gordon Lewis. In 1963 Lewis, with his monumental splatter movie Blood Feast, single-handedly changed the face of horror cinema forever.

As well as virtually inventing the gore generation, Lewis also produced a number of "exploitation" movies, as well as sampling the full gamut of exploitation subjects ranging from wife-swapping and ESP to rock 'n' roll and LSD. A Taste of Blood details all these, plus gore classics such as 2,000 Maniacs, The Gore Gore Girls, Color Me Blood Red and Wizard of Gore, placing them in context amid the roots and development of the exploitation film.  After over three decades away from filmmaking, HGL returned in 2002 with Blood Feast 2 and most recently completed The Uh-Oh Show in 2010.

"Herschell Gordon Lewis is the man who put red meat into the American cinematic diet. Ultimately Herschell made Quentin Tarantino possible." - Joe Briggs

Herschell’s Filmography includes: The Gore-Gore Girls (aka Blood Orgy) (1975), Year of the Yahoo! (1974), This Stuff’ll Kill Ya! (1973), Miss Nymphet's Zap-ln (1972), Stick It in Your Ear (1971), The Wizard of Gore (1971), The Ecstasies of Women (1970),  Linda and Abilene (1969), How to Make a Doll (1968), Just for the Hell of It (1968), The Psychic (1968), The Girl, the Body, and the Pill (1967), The Gruesome Twosome (1967), The Magic Land. of Mother Goose (1967), Something Weird (1967), Suburban Roulette (1967), A Taste of Blood (1967), Alley Tramp (1966), Jimmy, the Boy Wonder (1966), Color Me Blood Red (1965), Monster a Go-Go (1965), Sin, Suffer, Repent (1965), She-Devils on Wheels (1968), Blast-Off Girls (1967), Boin-n-g (1963), Goldilocks and the Three Bares (1963), Scum of the Earth (1963), Daughter of the Sun (1962), Nature’s Playmates (1962), The Adventures Of Lucky Pierre (1962), Living Venus (1961), The Prime Time (1960), 2,000 Maniacs! (1964), Moonshine Mountain (1964), Bell, Bare, and Beautiful (1963), Blood Feast (1963), Blood Feast 2 (2002)and The Uh-Oh Show (April, 2010).