Woodyanders Various sexy gals who work as go-go dancers at a seedy nightclub are murdered in assorted gruesome ways. Obnoxious and sarcastic stuck-up private eye Abraham Gentry (an amusingly smug performance by Frank Kress) persuades spunky reporter Nancy Weston (lovely Amy Ferrell) to pose as a stripper in order to catch the killer. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis and writer Alan J. Dachman treat the sleazy premise as one big sick and nasty black joke; the wickedly funny gallows humor at work here is certainly cruel and mean-spirited, but nonetheless still often uproarious in its very cheerfully unapologetic crassness. The gleefully over-the-top gore set pieces are truly something to behold: one gal's face gets smashed into a mirror, another has her head smashed into a gooey pulp, one lady's buttocks are savagely spanked with a meat tenderizer, a fourth victim has a hot iron pressed on her face and her nipples are cut off so her breasts can bleed milk (!), and yet another woman has her head dunked in a bowl of French fry grease. The fact that the make-up f/x are extremely cheap and shoddy only enhances the pervasively scuzzy atmosphere. The acting for the most part is laughably awful, with stand-out stinky contributions by Hedda Lubin as sassy waitress Marlene, Russ Badger as the dim-witted, hot-tempered Lt. Anderson, and Ray Sager as fruit-smashing ex-Marine Vietnam vet bartender Grout. Of course, we also get a pleasing abundance of tasty bare distaff skin on display. Henry Youngman as jolly strip club owner Marzdone Mobilie tells plenty of hysterically bad jokes. Alex Ameri's crude, unpolished cinematography, Lewis' wonky redundant score, and the ragged editing all further add to the picture's considerable scroungy charm. A total schlocky hoot.

johnc2141 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. 2 out of 10.

Pumpkin_Man I received this as a Christmas present. I loved all the gore scenes, even though they looked incredibly fake. It had some unintentionally funny moments. A reporter named Nancy Weston hires an obnoxious private investigator named Abraham Gentry to investigate the murders of strippers. He goes to the strip club and asks questions and some radical feminist group break in, trying to stop the women from stripping. Later, he gets the idea to trap the killer by making Nancy pose as a stripper to catch the killer. Again, I loved all the gore and was better than other Herschell Gordon Lewis films. I highly recommend THE GORE GORE GIRLS!!!

Scars_Remain I debated quite a bit over what rating to give this one because it's my least favorite Herschell Gordon Lewis film so far other than The Gruesome Twosome, but it has the best acting I've seen in a Lewis film. However, we all know that's not saying much. Once the movie was done, I was happy because it felt like I had been sitting through a 4 hour movie, though it was only 82 minutes long. 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. The acting is just as bad as usual with one exception. That exception is Frank Kress. Now, would I say that he's a good actor? No way, but he's good compared to everyone else. The story is boring and flat and goes no where and by the end, I didn't care what happened just so long as it ended. I know this is a cult classic but I didn't enjoy it very much at all. I hope you will.