The Gore Gore Girls

The Gore Gore Girls
Directed by	Herschell Gordon Lewis
Written by	Alan J. Dachman
Starring	Frank Kress Amy Farrell Hedda Lubin Henny Youngman
Release date(s)	1972
Running time	95 min
Country	United States
Language	English

The Gore Gore Girls is a 1972 horror film directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It was his final film for the next 30 years, and is particularly infamous for its scene of a woman's nipple being severed.

Plot

Nancy Weston (Amy Farrell), a reporter for The Globe, approaches Abraham Gentry (Frank Kress), an obnoxious, crack shot private investigator, on behalf of The Globe, which offers him $25,000 to investigate the brutal murder of stripper Suzie Cream Puff (Jackie Kroeger). They sweeten 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 vet 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 then crushes them with his bare fists. 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!” After the over-the-top gory murder of Pickles, which included mutilating her buttocks with a meat tenderizer hammer and salt and peppering it. 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.

Cast

• Frank Kress
• Amy Farrell
• Hedda Lubin
• Henny Youngman
• Russ Badger
• Jackie Kroeger
• Nora Alexis
• Phil Laurenson
• Frank Rice

External links

• The Gore Gore Girls at the Internet Movie Database
• The Gore Gore Girls at AllRovi

Sources

• Thompson, Nathaniel (2006) [2002]. DVD Delirium: The International Guide to Weird and Wonderful Films on DVD; Volume 1 Redux. Godalming, England: FAB Press. pp. 338–339. ISBN 1-903254-39-6.