{"id":20907,"date":"2016-09-26T17:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=20907"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:57:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:57:51","slug":"herschell-gordon-lewis-filmmaker-and-godfather-of-gore-dies-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=20907","title":{"rendered":"Herschell Gordon Lewis, filmmaker and \u2018godfather of gore,&#8217; dies at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"la-1474932715-snap-photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20908\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the \u201cgodfather of gore,\u201d has died. He was 87. The director of such films as \u201cBlood Feast\u201d and \u201cTwo Thousand Maniacs\u201d died in his sleep early Monday, spokesman James Saito said. Lewis pioneered the horror genre in the 1960s known as the \u201csplatter film,\u201d which intentionally focused on gore and gruesomeness.Other horror films created by Lewis included \u201cA Taste of Blood,\u201d \u201cThe Wizard of Gore,\u201d \u201cThe Gruesome Twosome,\u201d \u201cShe-Devils on Wheels\u201d and \u201cScum of the Earth!\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the \u201cgodfather of gore,\u201d has died. He was 87. The director of such films as \u201cBlood Feast\u201d and \u201cTwo Thousand Maniacs\u201d died in his sleep early Monday, spokesman James Saito said. Lewis pioneered the horror genre in the 1960s known as the \u201csplatter film,\u201d which intentionally focused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",750,422,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/la-1474932715-snap-photo.jpg",360,203,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror filmmaker known as the \u201cgodfather of gore,\u201d has died. He was 87. The director of such films as \u201cBlood Feast\u201d and \u201cTwo Thousand Maniacs\u201d died in his sleep early Monday, spokesman James Saito said. Lewis pioneered the horror genre in the 1960s known as the \u201csplatter film,\u201d which intentionally focused...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}