The Gore Gore Girls

Herschell’s love letter to the art of striptease and fiendish detective stories. Here the lead is taken by an American Inspector Clouseau and strippers have their eyes gouged out, nipples cut off and faces boiled in a deep fryer with french fries. The strippers also most likely framed and sharpened the shots and edited the final cut, while HerscHELL salaciously revelled in their... creativity. Slightly humorous trashsploitation for the thick-skinned. And patient. (17/10/2021)

Yes, Hershell Gordon Lewis made the most schlocky piece of schlock, in which random gore and gratuitous nudity take precedence over technical execution, the crime drama storyline, and even its attempts at comedy. However, it is such a pure and ingenuous B-movie that it almost makes you smile. In other words, this movie has a "heart", and also probably the most bizarre idea for a murder I have ever seen in a horror movie. (05/11/2021)

A cynical private eye and a sexy journalist uncover the background to the brutal murders of young strippers, which may be the result of a Catholic feminist conspiracy. It only hints a being a horror film, although the gore is truly impressive, and especially the butt hammering or face ironing is still impactful years later. Yet it's much more of a detective story that desperately doesn't know whether to reference or parody the noir school. The protagonist is brimming with cynicism, but he misses the mark due to the inflexibility of the rest of the characters. The entire film thus has to deal with a terrible inter-genre battle that ends in a tie. However, if you think of it as a B-movie, you'll have a lot of fun with it. (27/08/2007)