Rating: 
Summary: This is a truly distubing film....Right Napoleon?
Review: This is the final "gore classic" made by Herschell Gordon Lewis the "Godfather of Gore" it concerns a lovely old woman named Mrs. Pringle who runs a wig shop that sells "Real" human hair...Mrs. Pringle also has a sign in front of her house reading "Room For Rent". Little do the unsuspecting college students who rent the room realize that there is no room...the only thing that lies in store for them behind Mrs. Pringle's door is her mentally deficient son Rodney who promptly turns the girls into wigs in the most gory manners possible (typical HGL style). This is probably the campiest of HGL's "gore" films in which the heroine is a Nancy Drew want-to-be and there is a lot of empty space...a scene in a drive-in and a racing track that have NOTHING to do with the plot and of course the classic opening scene...a 20 minute conversation between 2 manequin heads but all-in-all it is a great film.
Rating:
Summary: This is a truly distubing film....Right Napoleon?
Review: This is the final "gore classic" made by Herschell Gordon Lewis the "Godfather of Gore" it concerns a lovely old woman named Mrs. Pringle who runs a wig shop that sells "Real" human hair...Mrs. Pringle also has a sign in front of her house reading "Room For Rent". Little do the unsuspecting college students who rent the room realize that there is no room...the only thing that lies in store for them behind Mrs. Pringle's door is her mentally deficient son Rodney who promptly turns the girls into wigs in the most gory manners possible (typical HGL style). This is probably the campiest of HGL's "gore" films in which the heroine is a Nancy Drew want-to-be and there is a lot of empty space...a scene in a drive-in and a racing track that have NOTHING to do with the plot and of course the classic opening scene...a 20 minute conversation between 2 manequin heads but all-in-all it is a great film.
Rating: 
Summary: Minimal Humor. Phony Gore. Bad Acting. A Classic?
Review: Though this movie claims to be unique for its controversial gore and outrageous humor, it wasn't too graphic and it wasn't too funny. Certainly if you are a person who abhors blood and gore, then this film or any other movie by HG Lewis would be a bad selection. I can only recommend this to people interested in horror/exploitation and filmmaking. Because its director was considered revolutionary, it would be a good plan to view this if you are interested in film. Yet, I learned more about what not to do with cinematography. Yes this was an older film, but other early horror classics managed to utilize the camera properly. All in all, it wasn't a complete waste of 72 minutes. It made me laugh....but only at the bad acting and flat characters.
Rating: 
Summary: H.G. "Gore-Gore" Lewis, at it again
Review: Typical Lewis fare: sick mother-and-son duo run a wig store which keeps itself in stock through the scalping of unsuspecting college-student victims. (Boring alternate plot thread has Nancy Drew-like student tracking them down, of course.) Gross little movie made all the weirder with bizarre, nonsensical (shilling for hallucinogenic) interludes that Lewis threw in to pad the running time, like the foam-rubber finger puppets that open the movie. Controversial in its day, no doubt, but now just goofy. Tons of zombie-level acting and "corpses" that blink after getting butchered prove that the ragged charm of Lewis's movies are now, in retrospect, mere contempt for the audience. Still, if you like that sort of thing...
Rating: 
Summary: You have a problem if...
Review: you think this sort of thing is "entertainment". Evil is not a joke. People are naturally designed to be revulsed by violence and gore. If you have trained yourself to overcome this human trait, you have jaded yourself into a spiritually and psychologically dangerous place.
When I was eight years old my loving parents took me and my sister to see "Samson and Delilah" at the local drive-in theater. Before the movie started, a graphic trailer for this piece of trash was projected onto the screen. Our whole family was horrified, and I was forever changed. I had never seen anything like that, and now, at age 45, I wish I still had not. I have never been able to fully expunge the disgusting images from my mind, though I have tried.
It wasn't funny or entertaining. It was horrifying to see, and perhaps more horrifying to think that anyone would want to see this for entertainment, or that anyone would make it, or that anyone would WANT to make it.
The theater operators should have been sued for foisting it upon unsuspecting customers.
Most of you reading this will instantly conclude that I am a puritanical prude or some such. I ask you to consider that perhaps it is your own perspective that is out-of-whack, and it's time to look for the pure, the true, the beautiful, the good, and the love in life. These are the creations of God; against these there is no law, and no expiration date. The truth IS just the same old story. I pray that you may find it.
Rating:
Summary: First take. . . we'll keep it!
Review: Yup. . . The Godfather of Gore's semi-classic gore flick "The Gruesome Twosome" has infected DVD technology. Notice I gave it a single star; well, that's not always a bad thing! Honestly, I've had lots of fun watching this terrible cult flick, but do you think that, just once, Lewis could shoot a second take when someone messes up their lines? It would probably take most of the fun away, regardless. The most upsetting aspect of this film is the shameful lack of gore. A good majority of screen time is dedicated to goofey chicks jumping on beds eating fried chicken, dancing on the beach, or chowing down at the local hang out. Reminds me in ways of a Frankie Avalon movie gone bad, if such a thing could happen! Nice commentary, as well; HGL basically claims that Scream had no thrills while "The Gruesome Twosome" is a horror classic. Ha!
| 
