![]() I had the poster hanging in my house for years. I still have the vomit bag they gave you when "Blood Feast" came out. Everybody'd honk when there was tits or gore. They've seen it by now, but all the kids I usually do films with had already seen Herschell's films because we used to go see them at drive-ins. And the kids were probably too young to have seen it. Kathleen had never seen "Blood Feast," I promise you. It's hard enough to die without some gore, but he did. I love that Herschell died in his sleep with no gore at all. He was elderly, but his mind was perfectly intact. We became friends I had dinner with Herschell the last year before he died. And then when she kills the guy at the flea market, it's basically the same scene. I wrote about Herschell in my book Shock Value, for which I interviewed him. There's a scene in "Serial Mom" where they watch "Blood Feast," and Kathleen likes it. Given Kathleen Turner's initial reaction to your film's "liver scene"-which is very indebted to "Blood Feast" and its use of offal and gore-did you show your cast and crew "Blood Feast" or any other Lewis films to give them an idea of where you were coming from? The influence of "Blood Feast" looms large over "Serial Mom," which gives me another opportunity to talk to you about one of my favorite subjects, Herschell Gordon Lewis.
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