HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS' BLOOD MANIA is the final feature in the long-running career of the cult director, best known under his moniker the Godfather of Gore. He made three latter-day gore flicks in the 21st century, but as with the recent work of Ted V. Mikels, they're pretty much buried under a wave of similar indie productions which leaves his '60s legacy as the work he'll be best known for. This film is in particular a disappoint, a horror anthology featuring a quartet of short horror pieces linked by Lewis himself presenting in front of a bad green screen.
The first story has a hook hand running amok and causing violence; the second is a small-time romance, the third a family drama, and the last a more arresting story of a psychopath attacking a group of strippers. There's some minor nudity and a little cheap gore FX but otherwise this is surprisingly tame and looks very cheap and lame in comparison to the director's earlier work. RIP, Herschell.
The first story has a hook hand running amok and causing violence; the second is a small-time romance, the third a family drama, and the last a more arresting story of a psychopath attacking a group of strippers. There's some minor nudity and a little cheap gore FX but otherwise this is surprisingly tame and looks very cheap and lame in comparison to the director's earlier work. RIP, Herschell.