Herschell Gordon Lewis proud? Hell, when it comes to Smash Cut - the film conceived by writer-director Lee Demarbre as a tribute to the cult icon - pride has nothing to do with it. Lewis is actually in the film and features prominently in the just-released trailer.

Smash Cut is the dizzying portrayal of ABLE WHITMAN, a trouble filmmaker losing his mind in an extraordinary way.

After his latest “serious” film is met with gales of laughter, Able decides to drown his sorrows at a local strip club--where he meets dancer GIGI SPOT. Minutes later, he’s convinced the honey dripping sex-pot to star in his next project. Minutes after that, he’s killed her in a drunk driving accident. Needing to dispose of the body, Able stumbles upon the one place nobody would notice a corpse…spread around the set of his new horror film. When the response to this new footage is praised for its realism, the guilt ridden Able has a complete mental breakdown. Believing he has finally discovered the key to making a great horror film, the director quickly discovers that one human body doesn’t yield a lot of parts, and if he wants to finish, he’s going to have to keep on killing.

Meanwhile, Gigi’s sister APRIL hires the city’s most celebrated private detective, ISAAC BEAUMONDE, to investigate Gigi’s disappearance. But when the simple missing person investigation turns into a string of stomach turning murders, Isaac realizes he’s found the case of a lifetime.

With Beaumonde hot on his heels, his sanity unspooling and his collaborators dropping like flies, will Able have the time, focus and resources to complete his magnum opus, or will he simply fade to black?

Horror icon David Hess takes the lead in this one, with fellow legend Michael Berryman taking a key support role. And the lady on the poster? That'd be Sasha Grey, star of many films that you wouldn't want to watch with your mother making her 'serious' debut here and soon to be seen in the lead of Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience. Expect interviews with the key players in these pages soon and if you can't wait to meet them in person, well, David Hess, Sasha Grey and Herschell Gordon Lewis will all be attending the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors.

Check the full trailer below the break and, as someone who has seen the full film, I can assure you that it is every bit as gloriously trashy as the trailer promises.