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"Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis is back - with his biggest and bloodiest film yet! Film Ranch and Cult Movie Mania have announced the August 30th DVD release of The Uh-Oh! Show, the all-new horror/comedy by acclaimed horror film legend H.G. Lewis, director of Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs.

H.G. Lewis' The Uh-Oh! Show (mini-review here) is distributed by Shriek Show, the horror movie division of the popular Media Blasters label, famous for releasing Lewis' previous hit Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat. The all-new website CultMovieMania.com, soon to be The resource for all things cinematically weird and wild, plans on offering an exclusive special package of Lewis' new film, complete with the bonus documentary DVD Herschell Gordon Lewis and the Making of The Uh-Oh! Show.

The DVD release showcases generous bonus extras: a behind-the-scenes featurette, three audio commentaries (director, stars, producers) and the official trailer,...

Infamous filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis, creator of the now legendary films Blood Feast and Two Thousand Maniacs is back with a truly odd-ball (and of course gory) satire called The Uh-Oh Show.

Here's the beef:

Jill Burton is a reporter who.s dead set on getting the scoop behind .The Uh-Oh! Show., the gory TV sensation that s sweeping the nation. The premise: Get the answer right and win piles of dough, get it wrong and . Uh-Oh! . it.s off with your arms, legs, or more!

Fred Finagler, the show.s mastermind, feeds the fans depraved cravings by launching an even bloodier reality spectacular filled with Big Bad Wolf attacks, Hansel & Gretel-style torture massacres, and mauling mutilations from the Three Bears and a gore-crazed Goldilocks. It.s just the type of prime-time violence Fred needs to keep the ratings high!

The film, which hits DVD August 30th, 2011 stars Brooke McCarter,...

(This film was sent to Bad Lit as a screener copy from the 2010 Spooky Movie Film Festival, which runs Oct. 21-25.)

When Herschell Gordon Lewis invented the splatter movie back in 1963 with the film Blood Feast, it was a dour, humorless affair with one of the least fearsome movie murderers of all time. Now, nearly 50 years later and a long absence from the genre he pioneered, Lewis has reinvented himself as a more genteel version of Lloyd Kaufman for his latest endeavor The Uh-Oh Show. Which is fitting since Kaufman does cameo in the film as a pimp.

The Uh-Oh Show is a bit of a hodgepodge: Part social satire, part gross-out fest, part straight-up comedy, part fairy tale. None of it quite gels together, but what it lacks in cohesion is made up in sheer exuberance, which is especially evident in the director’s own face when he cameos...

If it wasn’t for Herschell Gordon Lewis, the horror world might be a very different place. Known to many as the “Godfather of Gore,” his 1963 gorefest masterpiece Blood Feast changed the face of horror forever by giving audiences their first ever taste of bloodlust on the big screen.

“Blood Feast is a prime example of why you don’t necessarily need a huge budget to have an enduring film,” explained Lewis. “We made it for next to nothing and over 40 years later, Blood Feast is one of those films that people still talk about.”

Lewis added, “These days, some of these so-called horror movies come along and all they do is strut around for a bit and then they vanish. They don’t endure because a lot of them are missing the entertainment value to them. The reason Blood Feast has lasted so long is because we knew how...