Lewis began his horror career as a groundbreaker and ended with a film that he surely knew would be hard to top. Splatter fans are encouraged to test their mettle against the audacity of The Gore Gore Girls. While Lewis has incorporated humor into most of his films, this is the first that seems played wholly for laughs, as suggested by Henny Youngman's inexplicable supporting role as a strip-club owner. The juxtaposition of these scenes with the silly, comic tone of the rest of the film is jarring and further impersonalizes the savagery that the audience has just witnessed.
The Gals of Gore deliver what other contemporaries cant: a powerful, girl-group sound you can rock out AND dance to. Faces are hacked at and deep-fried, nipples are snipped off, and heads are squished like melons, all to the tune of jaunty marching-band music. This blurb from their official press release does a good job of describing what they are all about: Gore Gore Girls are a musical meeting of the Stooges and The Ronettes. 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. The gore effects are cheap and by themselves utterly unconvincing, but the sheer brutality inflicted upon these meat-covered mannequins and sheep eyeballs is enough to render disgust through mere suggestion, a triumph of sorts for the power of imagination. Swinging wildly between tasteless gallows humor, a bevy of bored-looking strippers going through topless routines, and the most extreme ultra-violence of Lewis' (or any other) career, The Gore Gore Girls is a fascinatingly sick swan song. Gore Gore Girls 2004 is guitarist/songwriter and lead vocalist Amy Surdu, ghost-of-Keith Moon Nikki Styxx on drums, charm school reject Marlene Hammerle on guitar and beauty pageant runner-up Jen âThe Deuceâ Pirch on bass.Herschell Gordon Lewis' final feature is so crudely lensed and unrelentingly violent that it's tempting to believe the whole thing was made solely as a prank. The band took their name from the 1972 grindhouse classic The Gore Gore Girls, directed by thrill-king Herschell Gordon Lewis (who also wrote the liner. Influenced by equal parts Kinks, Stooges, Marvelettes and some down home dirty love, Gore Gore Girls know how to deliver caustic yet sweet pop numbers in an original girl-group style. An R&B and punk rock union made in heaven! Gore Gore Girlsâ simple, straight-forward take on hip shakinâ rock-nroll numbers with low-fi sensibility makes them noteworthy and original. The Gals of Gore deliver what other contemporaries canât: a powerful, girl-group sound you can rock out AND dance to. This blurb from their official press release does a good job of describing what they are all about: âGore Gore Girls are a musical meeting of the Stooges and The Ronettes. I got a chance to catch this amazing group from Detroit at the Atomic Cowboy in St.
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