Gore Gore Girls, The
1972 / d. H. G. Lewis
Repulsive low-budget bloodfest from the godfather of gore, Herschell Gordon Lewis. The movie watches like a cheap 70s porno, with a soundtrack to match (say what you will, the music is actually a hilarious selling point), and is certainly not for everyone. Women will need to look past the misogynistic overtones to enjoy the campy, gratuitous gore, which includes everything from a rump beating with a meat tenderizer, nipple removals with a pair of scissors, to a ruthless face scalding in a pot of boiling oil. Sleazy fun at its best… or maybe worst.
Co-editor of The Blood Theatre, Matthew T. is also an artist who plays a mean piano and enjoys preparing for the zombie apocalypse.
I don’t think women will have to look past anything. If women like horror movies. then it’s nothing that they haven’t seen before. There is even a group of women fighting for women’s rights in the movie. Equality wasn’t ignored, it was just explored in a campy way from a male perspective, that is all it is guilty of. I loved this movie, I thought it was hilarious and a lot of fun and it wasn’t meant to be serious, serious movies don’t have a pun in every scene. If you can’t laugh then lack of equality isn’t the problem, lack of a sense of humor might be. Plus women have a right to choose. They can choose not to watch this movie.