The Gore Gore Girls (1972)

Director:

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Writer:

Alan J. Dachman (screenplay)

Release Date:

December 1972 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

In screaming color

Plot:

A ditsy reporter enlists the help of a sleazy private eye to solve a series of gory killings of female strippers at a Chicago nightclub.

Plot Keywords:

Stripper | Pantyhose | Murder | Topless Female Nudity | Camp

Cast

Frank Kress	...	Abraham Gentry
Amy Farrell	...	Nancy Weston
Hedda Lubin	...	Marlene
Henny Youngman	...	Marzdone Mobilie
Russ Badger	...	Lt. Anderson
Jackie Kroeger	...	Suzie Cream Puff
Nora Alexis	...	Lola Prize
Phil Laurenson	...	First Policeman
Frank Rice	...	Second Policeman
Corlee Bew	...	First Go-Go Dancer
Emily Mason	...	Mary McHenry
Lena Bousman	...	Second Go-Go Dancer
Marina Salli	...	Third Go-Go Dancer
Norman Dachman	...	Master of Ceremonies
Menda MacPhail	...	Fourth Go-Go Dancer
Luba Cherewchenko	...	Fifth Go-Go Dancer
Marlene Berger	...	Pickles
Peter Sande
Ray Sager	...	Barney the Bartender
Lauren Obeda	...	Lady Wrestler
Jim Killen	...	Doctor
Frank Kawsh	...	First Mobster
John Sezonoy	...	Second Mobster
Alex Petrovic	...	Third Mobster
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vicki Carr
Alan J. Dachman	...	Stoner (uncredited)
Harry Dachman	...	Cab Driver (uncredited)
Jeanne Molen	...	Hysterical Woman (uncredited)

Directed by
Herschell Gordon Lewis

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Alan J. Dachman		screenplay

Produced by
Herschell Gordon Lewis	....	producer

Original Music by
Herschell Gordon Lewis		(as Sheldon Seymour)

Cinematography by
Alex Ameri

Film Editing by
Alex Ameri		(as Eskandar Ameripoor)

Production Management
Ray Craig	....	production manager
R.A. Powell	....	assistant production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Allison Louise Downe	....	assistant director
Ray Sager	....	second unit director (as Ray Szegho)

Sound Department
Mahmoud Jalili	....	synchronization
Robert Lewis	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
Allison Louise Downe	....	special effects
Herschell Gordon Lewis	....	special effects
Robert Lewis	....	special effects

Camera and Electrical Department
Bill Garcia	....	title photographer
Phillip Kimmel	....	still photographer
Daniel Krogh	....	camera operator: second unit

Editorial Department
Paul Dickinson	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Larry Wellington	....	music coordinator

Other crew
Evelyn Chaitkin	....	continuity
Ron Muraoka	....	title designer

Production Companies

• Lewis Motion Picture Enterprises

Distributors

• Lewis Motion Picture Enterprises (1972) (USA) (theatrical)
• Select-a-Tape (1985) (USA) (VHS) (as Midnight Video)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2000) (USA) (DVD) (special edition)
• CMV Laservision (2004) (Germany) (DVD)
• Filmfreak Distributie (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Image Entertainment (2012) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-Ray)
• Movies Unlimited (video)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (199?) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

"Blood Orgy" - USA (alternative title)

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:X (original rating) | Australia:(Banned) (classification refused) | New Zealand:R18 (cut) | USA:Unrated | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

Lewis Motion Picture Enterprises

Trivia:

Henny Youngman's scenes were shot in one day.

Goofs:

Continuity: The dress of the woman, stripping in front of the mirror, was half off of her shoulder, in the next shot it was on her shoulder again.

Quotes:

Lt. Anderson:Ah, face mutilated with a meat tenderizer, throat slit, and this one had her ass beat in.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Cinema Snob: Blood Feast (#3.30)" (2011)

Cheap effects increase the disturbing factor.

Popular Video Nasty that features some explicit and brutal death scenes. The plot is easy to follow and also easy to get hooked by it. A private detective is after a killer on the loose whose victims are strippers from different clubs. So we have a serial killer and strippers. That's all I need to know to like it.

An ex marine is the principal suspect because most of the strippers' murders are similar to his combat techniques when he killed soldiers. There's a feminist group that is against a specific club, and whose leader is another suspect.

Who is behind the murders and why?

There's plenty of nasty gore and some violent scenes that are better remembered for it's cheese factor. Still the effects look cheap but nasty which adds more to the disgusting factor against the movie. The porno movie look and feel that this movie has it's great and gives it a tone of sleaze.

Watch it at your own risk. It's not a movie for everyone.

6/10.