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September 2, 2015 1:40 AM   Subscribe

Herschell Gordon Lewis is best known for being a legend of gory schlock horror, but his resume also included two children's films. Of the two, the 'best worst' is the earlier by one year: Jimmy the Boy Wonder, featuring a low-budget Land-of-Oz-with-the-numbers-filed-off, a bizarre villain named Mr. Fig and a lengthy sequence of poorly-dubbed possibly-European animation. The other, The Magic Land of Mother Goose (aka Santa Visits the Magic Land of Mother Goose - guess who never appears in the film?), was the result of Lewis being hired to shoot a vehicle for a magician entirely on a high school stage. Both films are available for purchase from Something Weird Video (parts of site NSFW) as downloads and DVD-Rs.
posted by BiggerJ (3 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 


HGL has - or at least had - a regular column in DIRECT magazine, a direct-marketers' trade magazine a friend of mine wrote for for a while. My own friend's involvement was the only reason I am even aware of this paper's existence.

This was at a time when the editor in chief was a guy who was formerly editor of HIGH TIMES, which probably explains why HGL had a column and why my own friend also was given a regular humor column in there as well. He took the fact that he wrote alongside Lewis as a point of no small personal pride.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 3:35 AM on September 2, 2015


From the trailer, The Magic Land of Mother Goose reminds me of Fun in Balloonland, only with higher production values. I'm going to have to check these out.
posted by Countess Elena at 1:38 PM on September 2, 2015


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