Monday, February 14, 2011

David Friedman, R. I. P.

David Friedman, 'Blood Feast' producer, dies - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety: "David F. Friedman, producer of B movies of the 1960s and '70s including the cult classic 'Blood Feast,' died of heart failure in Anniston, Ala., on Feb. 14. He was 87.

'Blood Feast,' directed by Friedman's frequent collaborator, Herschell Gordon Lewis, depicted the dismemberment of attractive women, and the 1963 film is considered one of the first gore movies.

Costing just $24,500 to make, the film netted a $6.5 million profit, Friedman's niece, Bridgett Everett, told the AP."

1 comment:

Todd Mason said...

Well, one of the first of the US's widely-circulated drive-in gorefests...Friedman was a much more amusing fellow, and with a better sense of what he was about, than Lewis, certainly.