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. 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. If you would like to publish text from MoMA’s archival materials, please fill out this permission form and send to. If you would like to reproduce text from a MoMA publication, please email. For more information about film loans and our Circulating Film and Video Library, please visit. For access to motion picture film stills for research purposes, please contact the Film Study Center at. Motion picture film stills cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. All requests to license archival audio or out of copyright film clips should be addressed to Scala Archives at. At this time, MoMA produced video cannot be licensed by MoMA/Scala. MoMA licenses archival audio and select out of copyright film clips from our film collection. If you would like to reproduce an image of a work of art in MoMA’s collection, or an image of a MoMA publication or archival material (including installation views, checklists, and press releases), please contact Art Resource (publication in North America) or Scala Archives (publication in all other geographic locations). says: ‘Ranking right up there with Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, and The Wizard of Gore as one of Lewis’s best films, The Gore Gore Girls will go down in history as the movie in which The Godfather of Gore managed to “out-gore” himself.’” (film notes by John Epperson). John Waters famously worships Herschell Gordon Lewis-and you should too. The Gore Gore Girls was the only film Lewis submitted to the MPAA, and of course it was slapped with an X rating.
And Lewis laughed too he showed up at the club for his first public speaking appearance! The Gore Gore Girls is about, you guessed it, go-go girls at Henny Youngman’s nightclub who are brutally murdered in Henny-color. The torment was removed by laughing at the films at Club 57. The promotional materials for his films-and the movies themselves, with titles such as Color Me Blood Red and *Two Thousand Maniacs!*-tormented young people across the South beginning with Blood Feast in 1963. Although a purveyor of ‘nudie cuties,’ Lewis was known as The Godfather of Gore. “Although Herschell Gordon Lewis did make three more films between 20, The Gore Gore Girls in 1972 was the end of his most, shall we say…productive period.
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