Herschell Gordon Lewis serves up “severed limbs, ripped-out tongues, and splattered brains” in a “potent, repellent, and strangely powerful” (L Magazine) stew of obscenities, which not only laid the groundwork for the splatter-horror subgenre but for the exploitation films to follow. Totally shocking, vile, and deliberately crude, this tale of a madman who sacrifices his kills to the Egyptian goddess Ishtar lives up to its tagline: “Nothing so appalling in the annals of horror.”