Herschell Gordon Lewis week (July 14 – 20) HG seemed to truly love packing theaters. He’s most famous for introducing gore to horror movies, but he’d fill any need that the audience had. He made every genre of exploitation __ – even kids movies! Gore movies would’ve happened eventually, but Herschell seemed to take joy in crafting gross-out shocks for unsuspecting cineasts. INTERESTING FACT! HG Lewis was a huge fan of Kentucky Fried Chicken and had them cater all of his productions. Col. Harland Sanders himself appeared in Lewis’ Blast Off Girls!

In the opening credits, Herschell Gordon Lewis is referred to as Lewis H. Gordon and David Freeman is listed as Davis Freeman. They’re also who William R. Johnson and William Kerwin based their roles on in this, two normal guys who decide to start shooting naked women on film. To make it even more meta, they’re inspired by a Lewis and Freeman double feature of Daughter of the Sun and The Adventures of Lucky Pierre.

Some of those models include Linda Cotton (who was in The Adventures of Lucky Pierre), Louise Downe (who would go on to write several films, including Blood Feast, The Gruesome Twosome, She-Devils On Wheels and Linda and Abilene, as well as acting in Diary of a Nudist as Bunny Downe, Scum of the Earth as Vicki Miles and uncredited in The Beast That Killed Women; she also was the second unit director for The Wizard of Gore, A Taste of Blood, How to Make a Doll and more), Christina Castel (also in Scum of the Earth), Joanne Stuart (Hollywood’s World of Flesh), Marge London (The Bare Hunt), Marlene Gage and Ginger Hale (The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill).

It’s goofy, but you know, in 1963, this was how guys got to see women nude.