![]() ![]() The strangeness continues with ludicrously inappropriate musical choices and stingers, usually involving blaring trumpets, that offset what, in the hands of a sane filmmaker, would be somber or suspenseful sequences. Lewis also leverages the kills for laughs, even though they’re also incredibly brutal: one woman’s butt cheeks are pounded into bloody hamburger with a meat tenderizer then seasoned with salt and pepper, while another gets her nipples snipped off with scissors, which then expel chocolate milk from one and regular milk from the other. ![]() Of his better-known films, this is perhaps the most slanted towards humor - the central character, a sociopathic private investigator named Abraham Gentry, provides most of the comedy via his sarcastic bastard indifference to the plight of everyone around him, including the flirtations of his dorky and adorable love interest played by Amy Farrell. Of course, a movie from Lewis wouldn’t be the same without some outrageously unrealistic gore and bizarre comedy. The Gore Gore Girls, Herschell Gordon Lewis’ last film before going into hibernation from 1973 until 2002’s Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, is sort of his take on giallo, complete with beautiful strippers murdered in elaborate ways by a black-gloved killer whose identity is obscured. Starring: Frank Kress, Amy Farrell, Hedda LubinĪvailable on: Blu-ray (Arrow), DVD (Something Weird) ![]()
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