The Gore Gore Girls

Yesterday, while trying to decide what movie I wanted to watch while the snow came down, i came across a DVD case that had no cover. So, in my curiosity, I decided to check out what I had in there and lo and behold, something that I forgot I had from the same friend from college. It was a burned copy of the French film Living Dead Girl coupled with a Herschell Gordon Lewis flick called Blood Feast. Both will be covered here at some point, but the latter got me to thinking about another Lewis flick that I had to watch a few years back in The Gore Gore Girls. Basically, it is a stripper film wrapped into a horror film that lives up to its name.

If you're looking for the premise of this film, it's actually quite simple: female adult entertainers are getting killed left and right, and it is up to a detective named Abe Gentry to figure out who is committing the acts of murder. Along the way, Gentry also has to deal with a female reporter, who he reluctantly lets help with the case. I won't bore you with the details of the story, so it is on to the various ways in which the victims are murdered. For instance, one victim gets pounded on the ass with a meat tenderizer while in another scene, two women meet their fates in odd ways, with one of them being drowned in hot oil used for french fries while another gets the ironing treatment. Say what you will about this film, but the death scenes are as gruesome as they are hilarious. As for the actual murderer, this would be one of the classic Vince Russo SWERVES that only pro wrestling fans would know about.

The Gore Gore Girls is by no means, a classic film. However, it has a pretty good sense of humor in its killings and plays out like 60's television show, which brings out the "way back machine." Horror fans should check this out, but the real horror is the bad acting by the adult entertainers, not that they were good actors to begin with.