The Gore Gore Girls

Plot synopsis:
Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell), a reporter for The Globe, approaches Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress), an obnoxious private investigator, and offers him $25,000 on behalf of The Globe to investigate the brutal murder of stripper Suzie Cream Puff (Jackie Kroeger). She sweetens the deal with a $25,000 bonus for solving the case. Of course this comes contingent that The Globe gets the exclusive story. Gentry takes the case and begins the investigation of the murder with Weston in tow. When at the club, Gentry encounters a waitress, Marlene (Hedda Lubin), whose obnoxiousness rivals his. He gets through her to speak to another stripper and gets his first suspect, Joseph Carter.
Soon, another stripper, Candy Cane, gets murdered and Gentry expands his suspect list to Grout (Ray Sager), an unstable veteran who takes pride in crushing the heads of corpses he found when on the battlefields of Vietnam. He relieves tension by drawing faces on squashes and tomatoes and then crushing them with his bare hands. Gentry also suspects the leader of a radical feminist group that riots in the strip club, carrying banners with catchy phrases like "Lewd is Crude", "Quit with Tit" and "Women Right On!". Pickles, another stripper, is murdered and has her buttocks mutilated with a meat tenderizer hammer before having it salt and peppered. A badge with "Women Right On!" is found at the scene.
Meanwhile, Gentry buys Weston many drinks to keep her drunk and out of his way. During one of Weston's drunken episodes she admits she's attracted to Gentry. Gentry ignores this and concentrates on the case. His investigation takes him to the owner of the strip clubs in town, Mr. Marzdone Mobilie (Henny Youngman). Gentry then coerces Mobilie into holding an amateur stripper contest with a $1,000 prize, which also works as the beginning of a plan for Gentry's trap.
After having a few too many drinks, Gentry encourages Weston to perform the amateur stripper contest in which she goes all out by "taking it all off" and wins the $1,000 cash prize. Gentry accompany's Weston back to her apartment and lets her rest on her couch as he seemingly leaves. Soon, the killer arrives and Gentry, who anticipated that the killer would do just that, appears after hiding behind a door and takes off the killer's hood revealing Marlene. He also further reveals more when he pulls off her shirt revealing burn marks on her chest, literally obscuring her breasts. After a brief struggle, Marlene falls out a balcony window and lands on the street below where her head is crushed by an oncoming car.
Gentry then reveals his case in a long monologue to Nancy Weston about following the clues which Gout told him earlier about Marlene being burned in a fire which her breasts were burned off. This drew the conclusion that she was killing all those strippers out of jealousy and hatred to their own beauty which Marlene's was now taken from her. Weston is somewhat angry that Gentry used her as bait to trap Marlene into revealing herself as the killer, but accepts for the risk was worth it. Gentry and Weston profess their love for each other as she tells him that the story will make a great contribution to the Globe and both of them get "down to business" (making out), before Gentry looks at the camera and tells the viewers that it's over and to leave them alone.
The closing title card then appears reading: "We announce with pride: this movie is over!"

Tags: violence, absurd, cult, murder, sadist

Review:
SPOILER: The last gore film of Herschell Gordon Lewis is perhaps one of his goriest and remarkably one of his funniest..intentional and unintentional.
Frank Kress as Abraham Gentry certainly also is one of the best actors ever used in a lead in a Lewis film.
Henny Youngman, the only big name to grace any of Lewis's horror films, stars as a night club owner and talks so fast you will have trouble hearing what he says!
The photographers in each murder scene are hilarious as is the general mood of the film when some poor girl isn't losing appendages, skin, or having her eyes gouged out.
Herschell Gordon Lewis' movies are an acquired taste, and 'The Gore Gore Girls' is a perfect example of this.
"The Gore Gore Girls" is Herschell Gordon Lewis' best film.
And for good measure, be sure to recall that the killer added a little bit of seasoning to the carnal creation.Add all this to the fact the film co-stars Lewis' most charming and attractive actress yet (Amy Farrell as reporter Nancy Weston) and we have a winner of a film.
I am not really sure what to make of that, but it seems all too proper in a flick like this.The commentary track is also quite informative, as Lewis will point out Ray Sager (he is easy to miss), talk about Henny Youngman's denial of being in the film, and explain why he disappeared from movies for thirty years.
Legendary splatter master Herschell Gordon Lewis takes violence just about as far as he can in the standout scenes of this typically insane film.
Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell), a ditzy reporter for a newspaper, hires renowned private detective Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) to determine who the murderer is.
A movie like this could only have been created by the "Godfather of Gore" Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Not as good as some of Herschell Gordon Lewis 's other films , but I did like it.
The Gore Gore Girls is a pretty solid exploitation picture from legend Herschell Gordon Lewis.
This has the most savage gore of all the films Herschell Gordon Lewis made at this point.
In between the sex and violence the film tends to get a bit boring.I would have preferred an all out camp approach that Herschell Gordon Lewis has applied in his other films ,but The Gore Gore Girls is still cheap and trashy enough for me to dig it ..
OK i have seen Hershall Gordon Lewis movies before but this one really takes the cake,its really gory and gross,not to mention disgusting the way the strippers are done in,I'm talking bad acting that makes plan 9 from outer space look like hamlet,the only saving grace is the late great Henny Youngman as the strip club owner,yeah take my wife..., please.the stripteasers are real sexy for 1972,i believe they used this same plot again in the Roger Corman movie;stripped to kill in 1987.i did enjoy the earlier H.G.Lewis flick 100 maniacs,which was a mini masterpiece of sorts,but bad acting,no awards here,but be aware this is a splatter movie that paved the way for Friday the 13th,and saw.in one disturbing scene a half naked stripper has her butt spanked with a meat tenderizer.ugh!morbid stuff here.H.G. Lewis strikes again.
ok- yes this movie is dated (it's from 1972 for C****t sake!!!)but this is one of the most fun, gory, drive-in style flicks of all time!!!as i've said in previous reviews, i revere HG Lewis as a GOD in the horror world for bringing to the screen things that you still don't see in modern-day films.
i love good ol' exploitation gore flicks, and saw a lot of terrible movies, but his one is plain bad.
The acting is at least on par with that of more acclaimed films of the time such as Shaft of French Connection; in particular, Frank Kress, though perhaps not the most photogenic actor, delivers an impressively competent and smooth performance as Abraham Gentry, the all-knowing hero.
Low-budget schlockmeister Herschell Gordon Lewis reaches a new low (even for him) with "The Gore Gore Girls," a 'film' (snicker) that possesses all of his technical trademarks: badly-recorded sound, poor lighting, and OTT gore.
Completely unlikable pompous-ass private investigator Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) is recruited by a newspaper reporter to find out who's been murdering out-of-shape strippers (you'll stop caring who the culprit is long before these two are wrapping up the case).
"The Gore Gore Girls".Here is a film so silly,campy and bad,that watching this film is like committing a criminal act.Although,it is not a criminal act to watch this film,I myself felt victimized by this extreme waste of garbage that actually is a cult classic.Alright,maybe it's not but it can be being that Herschell Gordon Lewis directed it.His films ranging from "Blood Feast" to "2000 Maniacs" have achieved cult following.
Each of the films have a comic look to them that are not even funny.The gore scenes even though some of them look awfully fake can still be unsettling.There is probably enough gore in this film to fill up an entire empty bucket.My guess is that when they made this film they took that bucket and tossed out the story and the acting and the direction and replaced it with an hour and a half of pure waste.Life can be short.I had to waste part of it on this trash.Maybe I'll rent another Herschell Gordon Lewis film to see if he'll out do himself.He usually does by making one film after another that gets worse and worse..
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 and also had the nerve to get offended when the interviewer from Something Wild compared him to Ed Wood Jr. Sorry pal, but you're not exactly Martin Scorsese yourself.The extremely thin plot is about a series of murders of topless go-go dancers in strip clubs.
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 naked chicks).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.
If you've never seen an HG Lewis movie, I recommend you try "Blood Feast" first instead, you'll have a much better time..
When the go-go dancers from a chain of strip clubs start turning up horrifically mutilated, a newspaper, hoping to land a scoop, sends pretty reporter Nancy (Amy Farrell) to hire the services of genius private eye Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress).
G. Lewis's infamous 'classic' gore movies, The Gore Gore Girls is another low budget piece of trash featuring shoddy acting, technically poor direction, and buckets of unconvincing gore.
That said, the film does have a certain period charm (check out those strippers groovy dance routines!), an 'engaging' performance from Kress as the pompous P.I., and a fun tongue-in-cheek vibe that makes the nastier moments more palatable.Fans of movie-kitsch will no doubt revel in the trashy strip-club scenes, the swinging soundtrack, and the nasty fashions, whilst gore-hounds will go ga-ga as the killer slashes and mashes his victims' features to a messy pulp, tenderises a woman's butt, sticks another's head in boiling oil, and, best of all, irons a girl's face before snipping off her nipples with a pair of scissors.
None of this looks real, but it's still shocking stuff, particularly considering the time this was made.Unfortunately, in between the 'fun' there is some dreadfully dull padding (several desperately unfunny comedy scenes featuring inept cops and some crap about womens-libbers) and anyone expecting anything other than 80 minutes or so of pure cheesy schlock will most likely be sorely disappointed..
Like most of H.G. Lewis' films, no one takes it seriously and that's what I enjoy about this movie.Recommended for campy horror film fans.B. About what you'd expect from Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Aside from Frank Kress (who played Abraham Gentry), an appearance by Henny Youngman and the last seconds of the movie, there really wasn't anything particularly good about this film.
In the 1960s and 70s, Lewis was known for making a string of incredibly low budget exploitation films, such as BLOOD FEAST and MONSTER A GO-GO.
But to have them doing some of the sick acts, even if unrealistic, is pretty nasty and shows a lot of misogyny.The only hope in the film, as the police are all idiots, is a guy named Abraham Gentry--whose mannerisms and style of speech are very close to the stock actor, David Lochary, from the early John Waters films.
I'm trying to see all of HGL's films and that's probably the only reason to see this one.The gore is good as usual, the one thing that Herschell seemed to get right.
Say what you will about cinema's "Wizard of Gore," Herschell Gordon Lewis, it must be conceded that from his first films (1963's trashy "Blood Feast" and 1964's crackerbarrel massacre "Two Thousand Maniacs") to his last (1972's "The Gore Gore Girls"), the man remained faithful to his muse, gleefully chopping up the bodies of young men and women for the delectation of the camera.
The film features remarkably annoying and repetitive background music, terrible lighting, abysmal acting, repugnant characters, problematic sound AND, of course, some of Lewis' patented gross-out scenes.
I love camp movies, believe me and the usual technicolorian gore of Gordon Lewis don't bother me at all, but this is just one of his most stupid movies, even more than BLOOD FEAST, i'm not kidding.
Jason Bateman's character then asks if she's ever seen a Herschel Gordon Lewis film, and to wit he has a copy of a movie (I forget which at the moment) and shows it to her.
In other words, Herschel Gordon Lewis's reputation is maintained some many years after he ended making his gore films - and it's that of a schlock-Meister, no more no less.
He can't direct actors worth a damn, he lights like it's a porno movie, and for every one possibly clever or funny one-liner there's ten that either totally stink or are too clever by half or not clever nearly enough.That being said, perhaps as the best substantive thing to say about The Gore Gore Girls, a mystery movie about a detective (2nd rate Sherlock Holmes guy played by somewhat amusing Frank Kress) and a newspaper reporter (dummie Amy Farrell) investigating a series of murders of go-go dancers, is that it serves as the template for countless more Troma-style pictures.
So long as you know what to expect from a HG Lewis movie, you'll have no problems with viewing The Gore Gore Girls.
The film features all the trademarks of a HG movie, including disgusting blood and gore and, of course, plenty of naked chicks.
Overall, The Gore Gore Girls is a bad film; but it's so funny that it's hard not to like it..
And in 1972, Herschell Gordon Lewis, the creator of the gore film, and innovator of graphic violence in cinema, had his last hurrah.
Of course it does...While I consider this to be Herschell Gordon Lewis' most overrated (gore) film, I can understand why so many considers this the ultimate in HGL gore.
GGG is certainly Herschell Gordon Lewis' most violent film however keeps its tongue firmly in cheek and showcases some directorial flourishes that, sadly, HG Lewis could not expand upon as THE GORE GORE GIRLS was the last in his exploitation series.The plot basically surrounds a young, naive female reporter Nancy, a suave private eye named Abraham who would give James Bond a run for his money, strippers and a crazed killer who mutilates the face of their victims.
Abraham and Nancy must then dredge through the club's patrons in order to find the killer before they strike again and, in doing so, meet a variety of morally devoid freaks and, more amusingly, a womens rights group.THE GORE GORE GIRLS is, in my opinion, HG Lewis' best film and a real improvement on some of his earlier exploitation work such as BLOOD FEAST and THE GRUESOME TWOSOME and is certainly the most intentionally funny and graphically violent of his works.
The bizarrely effeminate ace private-eye, Abraham Gentry, is hired by the most unlikely journalist in cinema history to investigate the brutal murders of a bunch of third-rate go-go dancers working out of a sleazy strip club.
"The Gore Gore Girls" was Lewis's horror film swan song, and ends with a head being squashed by an automobile.
Yes. I really did try to cut this imbecilic, z-grade slasher-trash/horror film some serious slack due to its low budget ($64,000) and the era that it came from (1972).But - Let me tell ya - If ever there was a crazed killer movie that deserved a minus-10 rating - Then - "The Gore Gore Girls" would definitely be it - 'Cause it was absolute rubbish.This film's story (that was aimed at a pure "white-trash" mentality) repeatedly encouraged the viewer to laugh out loud at women being brutally and sadistically murdered - And, it drove home the point that these women deserved exactly what was coming to them.Prior to "The Gore Gore Girls" - Filmmaker, H.G. Lewis had been directing films in this same narrow-minded genre for 10 years (with 30 films under his belt).And, yet - In all of that time Lewis' skills in his craft had not improved one bit since "Day One" with the word "amateur" and "inept" written all over "The Gore Gore Girls" from its boring start to its totally anti-climatic finish....
I'm a big Herschell Gordon Lewis fan, having seen most of his films at least a dozen times apiece.
Even with all the nudity and graphic gore effects, this is a tired, halfhearted film, and the banter exchanged by private eye Frank Kress and strip club waitress Hedda Lubin falls embarrassingly flat.
Gory Fun. Gore Gore Girls, The (1972) ** (out of 4) A polished detective (Frank Kress) and snappy reporter (Amy Farrell) are investigating the strange cases where strippers are being found mutilated with their heads bashed in.
This would be the last film Lewis would direct until his comeback nearly thirty-years later with BLOOD FEAST 2 and it was a pretty good way to go out.
With that said, fans of gore will certainly find a lot of that here and overall I had a pretty good time with the movie.
All in all this clearly isn't the director's best film but fans of gore will certainly want to check it out for all the crazy death scenes..
"The Gore Gore Girls" is a deliciously dark tale from "Master of Exploitative Horror On A Shoe-String Budget" Herschell Gordon Lewis.
The people involved, in front of and behind the camera, are very well aware that they are simply creating a gross, vulgar, sleazy piece of garbage and thus the film is a success on it's own very limited terms.After an "exotic striptease artist" named Suzie Creampuff has her face mangled on a broken mirror, loopy tabloid magazine writer Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell) decides to offer famous, arrogant, wisecracking detective Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) 25,000 dollars to find the killer.
There's plenty more gore as more throats are slashed, eyeballs are popped out and squashed, skin is melted off in a boiling pot of French fries, a face is fried with a hot iron and, most memorably, nipples are cut off with scissors, spewing out milk (regular and chocolate!) The dialogue, especially comments from brain dead cop on the case Lt. Anderson (Russ Badger) and the long dialogue scenes between Nancy and Abraham and their "cute" little come-ons can be painful, but it's all good dumb fun.
"Face mutilated with a meat tenderiser, throat slit &, erm, this one had her ass beat in." Possibily Herschell Gordon Lewis's best film..
The local paper sends the young attractive reporter Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell) with a cheque for $25,000 to sweet talk the famous private detective Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress) into investigating & solving the murder which will also make for a nice little story.
As the list of victims continue to grow Gentry decides he must devise a plan to lure the killer out into the open...Scored, produced & directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis who also has a special effects credit The Gore Gore Girls is his swansong, his final exploitation film although he did make a brief return to film-making with Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) a few years back, The Gore Gore Girls is probably my favourite film of his that I have seen.
The Gore Gore Girls is one of the best exploitation films out there, it entertains big style if you like this sort of stuff.
Although these scenes look quite fake Lewis likes to linger on the gore & they are pretty gross.
Overall I like The Gore Gore Girls a lot, it's good fun if you look at it in the right way as it's brutal & gory but it also has a comic element to it which lightened the tone.
Again, I loved all the gore and was better than other Herschell Gordon Lewis films.
This was my second HGL movie after the Wizard of Gore, and I quite enjoyed it.The plot revolves around a private investigator and a journalist teaming up to figure out why strippers from the same company are being killed horribly.First of all, Frank Kress as Abe Gentry made this movie for me.
Herschell Gordon Lewis's last film before he retired to the direct marketing world and returned one more time with "Blood Feast 2".