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Summary: Gore Gore Girls (1972) d: Lewis, Herschell Gordon
Review: Aka: Blood Orgy. Eyes picked out with a fork, Faces burnt to a crisp with an iron! Heads deep-fried in boiling oil, bottoms spanked into a bloody pulp, and plenty of grim humor tossed in to tide you over between the splatter and gore bits. The final exploitation film produced, scored and directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Private eye Abraham Gentry (played by Frank Kress) and a ditzy reporter (played by Nancy Weston) are investigating the deaths of sexy strippers Suzy Creampuff and Candy Cane - they are go-go girls who were diced up by a masked killer. ...A wicked mix of sick comedy, topless dancing, and ultra-violence makes this final film one of the ultimate B-movie gross-outs of all time! Much in the tradition of early Italian thrillers like Mario Bava's Blood and Black Lace (1964). Just when you think it can't get any more extreme, it does - and then some! Probably the only film that spends more time with the victim after the murder than before.
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Summary: HGL at his best
Review: For those unfamiliar with HGL, I would recommend seeing Blood Feast first, for all others, skip the mediocre films that followed and go staight to the Gore Gore Girls. Don't get me wrong, his other films are entertaining in their own right if you are a fan of 'bad' cinema; however, this film is quintasencial 'bad' cinema. This is HGL at his finest, superbly combining slap-stick humour with over-the-top, albeit ridiculously executed, gore and violence. Do not approach this film expecting a horror film. It is not. It is an hilarious comedy that happens to be exhuberantly bloody (but in a darkly, twistedly funny way). You will never look at a glass of chocolate milk the same way again after viewing this film. Again, those familiar with HGL's work know that his films are far from 'slick'. They are characterized by rudamentary camera work, baddest of the bad acting, minimal production values, all doused liberally in vibrantly red blood. If these weren't present, they wouldn't be HGL films and they would certainly suffer for it. This is what exploitation filmmaking is all about, brilliantly executed by the master himself. If you haven't seen it yet, get it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: One of the better HGL films
Review: Gore-hounds take note, "The Gore Gore Girls" is perhaps the most gruesome film made by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Of course, the viewer gets to witness some rather trashy strip sequences that contain more scares than the movie itself! Everything else is pretty standard: gross effects, bad acting (though there are a few surprises here, such as a guest appearance by "The King Of the One-Liners" Henny Youngman), and some absolutely awful directing! For the most part, I felt that this film was a meager step up from earlier Lewis films like "The Gruesome Twosome", and the jokes actually seemed more intentional this time! The DVD is a well-done project, featuring a wonderfully candid HGL interview/commentary that tells you everything you wanted to know, or didn't want to know, about "The Gore Gore Girls". The other extras, especially the Goddess Of Gore segment, are also interesting for early-gore film fanatics.
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Summary: One of the better HGL films
Review: Gore-hounds take note, "The Gore Gore Girls" is perhaps the most gruesome film made by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Of course, the viewer gets to witness some rather trashy strip sequences that contain more scares than the movie itself! Everything else is pretty standard: gross effects, bad acting (though there are a few surprises here, such as a guest appearance by "The King Of the One-Liners" Henny Youngman), and some absolutely awful directing! For the most part, I felt that this film was a meager step up from earlier Lewis films like "The Gruesome Twosome", and the jokes actually seemed more intentional this time! The DVD is a well-done project, featuring a wonderfully candid HGL interview/commentary that tells you everything you wanted to know, or didn't want to know, about "The Gore Gore Girls". The other extras, especially the Goddess Of Gore segment, are also interesting for early-gore film fanatics.
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Summary: Please! No More!
Review: H. G. Lewis really goes all out in this film, one of his last gore epics. The plot, set in and around a strip-club, concerns the string of murders of beautiful young girls....that's original! But the scenes of murder on display here are worse than ever, with one girl's head being held under boiling oil in a kitchen fryer, a hot iron being pressed into a face, and the famous scene of a girl's nipples being cut off with scissors. It all sounds appalling, but on viewing, it actually strikes you as ridiculous, which is a relief! The rest of the film concerns the "Keystone Cops" style hunt for the killer by a male-female partnership, which, for a change, is pretty entertaining on its own, as are the hilarious scenes where the dozy strippers are interviewed in search of clues. Incidentally, the scenes of the girls actually performing strip shows in the club are absolutely priceless, and bound to bring the house down (with laughter) when watched. If you like a good turkey of a movie and can stomach the grosser than gross atrocities on display, you will be glad you got this film.
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Summary: GOREY GOSH!!
Review: Herschell G Lewis is one sick puppy!! Anyone who has seen any of his gore movies will realize I mean this as very high praise. Many thought this would be his last movie, but thankfully he's come back recently with a sequel to BLOOD FEAST (which isn't available in NZ to my knowledge). GORE GORE GIRLS sees Lewis going into overdrive, the humor is blacker than before; the gruesome sequences are repulsive and of course there are endless sequences of go-go girls shaking their groove thangs to campy, bizzare jazz music composed by none other than Mr Lewis, under the name Sheldon Seymour. The plot (what there is of it) revolves around a detective and a reporter investigating the violent deaths of strippers at a night club. We are subjected to hilarious sequences of feminists picketing the club (one placard says LEWD IS CRUDE)and awful dialogue ("I'll tell you one thing, this murderer sure isn't weak" and "You're resting your foot on my crutch"). The stripping sequences themselves are more embaressing than titillating, but Mr Lewis outdoes himself in scenes featuring an iron, a deep fryer and demonstrates a novel way of dispensing chocolate milk. And how could you forget the meat tenderiser scene, the movie's pièce de rèsistance? All these grim delights make up for the movie's flagging bits. (And that goes for some of the strippers too). When you watch GORE GORE GIRLS there is no doubt you are watching cheap garbage, but the difference is this is cheap garbage made by a marketing genius. So grab a nice rare rump steak and a big glass of chocolate milk and sit yourself down in front of the box for what could well be the most gruesome eighty minutes of your life.
This is only the third Lewis movie I've seen after BLOOD FEAST and GRUESOME TWOSOME. I just hope our censors let more through. Gore fans shouldn't be denied these movies. They're part of horror history.
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Summary: grotesque and hilarious
Review: Hershell Gordon Lewis made crap. He made B-movie, gut-wrenching garbage for an audience of potential millions of teenage boys, who were just a little too weird to get girls, at least alive ones. The "Gore Gore Girls" does not fail to entertain this heretofore unexplored demographic. It's hilarity is undisputed. And, yes, Lewis knew he was making comedy. I don't think it's as good as 1963's "Bloodfeast" or even 1964's "Two Thousand Maniacs," which, as the first gore films ever released in America, have a much higher historical and cultural importance and are, in fact, primary historical source material. The "Gore Gore Girls" is an anarchic, nihilistic parody of its times, and it would be enjoyed by followers of Sade, Hobbes, and Malthus today. Feminists are sure to love the premise of the film, which I refuse to divulge. Buy this gory, disgusting, french fried, eye-popping, face cleaving masterpiece. Make sure to bring a milk glass.
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Summary: grotesque and hilarious
Review: Hershell Gordon Lewis made crap. He made B-movie, gut-wrenching garbage for an audience of potential millions of teenage boys, who were just a little too weird to get girls, at least alive ones. The "Gore Gore Girls" does not fail to entertain this heretofore unexplored demographic. It's hilarity is undisputed. And, yes, Lewis knew he was making comedy. I don't think it's as good as 1963's "Bloodfeast" or even 1964's "Two Thousand Maniacs," which, as the first gore films ever released in America, have a much higher historical and cultural importance and are, in fact, primary historical source material. The "Gore Gore Girls" is an anarchic, nihilistic parody of its times, and it would be enjoyed by followers of Sade, Hobbes, and Malthus today. Feminists are sure to love the premise of the film, which I refuse to divulge. Buy this gory, disgusting, french fried, eye-popping, face cleaving masterpiece. Make sure to bring a milk glass.
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Summary: Gaaaaaaaaah!
Review: I first rented this movie back in the 80's, when my friend opened a video store that carried every rare movie he could find. He also carried all the shock, horror, and exploitation movies he could dig up, and I went through almost of all them. Previously I had seen Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs, and the Wizard of Gore. They were gruesome (especially for the time period), and the Wizard of Gore got pretty nasty. The Gore-Gore Girls, however, was the one I remember as being the most disgustingly gory. I rented it on DVD recently because I wanted to hear the commentary, and thought it might have some cool dancing and clothes. I forgot that it was made in the early 70's, so fashion had kind of gone downhill by then. I also realized this was a movie I didn't really need to see more than once. It had amusing parts, but gaaaah! It was much more disgusting than I remembered. I'm very jaded to movie gore but a couple of times I just got too grossed out and had to look away. This wasn't a good choice of movie to put on DVD all crisp and cleaned up with better sound and picture quality. The commentary is amusing in parts, and interesting (I think HG said the budget was $6100.00) Maybe HG Lewis wasn't feeling well that day, but he sounded tired overall (or at least a little uneven-he just didn't sound too excited) and also had the nerve to get offended when the interviewer from Something Wild compared him to Ed Wood Jr. Sorry pal, but you ain't exactly Martin Scorsese yourself. The extremely thin plot is about a series of murders of topless go-go dancers in strip clubs. A cute reporter and a really unattractive private detective team up (sort of-he can't seem to stand her) to try to solve the crimes. Henny Youngman owns a strip club. A bunch of really ugly murders happen. I'm going to apologize in advance because I don't want to sound like I have no sense of humor, but this movie was so misogynistic it pi$$ed me off more than the main character in"The Company of Men". Please keep in mind that I do have some respect for HG Lewis as a director-anyone who John Waters devotes an entire chapter to in 'Shock Value' is OK with me.Mainly because in this movie, main character's and the director's extreme dislike for females- and the audience- just oozes from every frame. It's not just the murders. The highly unattractive detective goes out of his way to treat the female reporter like dog dirt at every opportunity, for no apparent reason, (he's not exactly a threat to George Clooney, like I said) and she still follows him around like a puppy. She faints upon seeing a horribly mutilated body and he looks distastefully at her, then pours cold soda from a can onto her face to wake her up. Later he calls the police to report the crime- "No...no hurry...she just seems to have...lost face." This guy is THE HERO. You can imagine how the other characters feel about women. I could go on and on but you get the idea. Please note that I am making this movie sound much more politically correct (and much more fun) than it actually is. Most of the cast are the type of actors you pray will never take their clothes off- not too easy on the eyes, so don't watch the movie just to see the nudity unless you're not too picky. The go-go dancers all look like they desperately want to have the scene end so they can get their $10 or whatever the going rate HG paid them was and get their fix. OK, I'm being mean, for all I know the dancers were just unhappy due to the conditions they had to work under. It's not quite that bad, there was one dancer that looked like she might have been a pro and also one other cool dancer with a huge afro that didn't look as miserable as the rest, but still not too thrilled. In my opinion, the only slightly entertaining things were a couple moments of brief unintentional humor, such as when a policemen in charge at a murder scene angrily yells "Get outta here before I have you all arrested!" not to a bunch of reporters but to some other policeman calmly going about their work. Henny Youngman is kind of funny though, like Lewis says, he said his lines so fast that they almost needed subtitles (I'm sure he was trying to get the whole day over in a hurry so he could get paid and get the hell out of there, though he doesn't look like he minded watching some strippers do their thing). My recommendation? Might be worth seeing just out of morbid curiosity- for the era the movie was made, it was probably the most gruesome thing on film at the time- or if you're really big HG Lewis fan and find him or low-budget film-making by anyone fascinating. Otherwise, if you've seen it once, you've seen it and can move on to other disgusting but much more entertaining low-budget movies from the early 70's...this movie doesn't even come close to, say, "Pink Flamingos" when it comes to the skip-the-popcorn factor. If you've never seen an HG Lewis movie, I recommend you try "Blood Feast" first instead, you'll have a much better time, and you won't be left with such a bad taste in your mouth.
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Summary: PLEASE VULNERABLE SOULS READ THIS
Review: I have not seen the dvd edition of this film, in fact i have not watched it in years, but I have to add my voice to the reviews, This is a seriously scary film. it totally warped my brain when I saw it 6 years ago and I have still not recovered from watching it. I love my gore and gruesome films but this film did something awful to my mental health. If you are of a strong mental type then go ahead and watch it, HG Lewis never intended that his films would warp people but this film will never leave me. Even if it is wanky ancient special effects, the sheer brutality of this film is not to be underestimated. If you can handle it - go ahead by all means. I wish I could do so. But if you are a troubled soul don't bother. I have lasting nightmares.Even if HG Lewis didn't intend it, thats how it is........
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