Arrow Video, with
domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group,
has selected Aug. 14 for the next stand-alone Blu-ray special edition release
showcasing the talents of iconic filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Back in October of 2016
Arrow Video released the Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast, which
may have been out of the price range of some fans, so during the past year the
various components of that 14-film collection have been broken out as
stand-alone presentations. The latest,
on Aug. 14, will be a Blu-ray presentation of director Herschell Gordon Lewis’
1972 splatter/horror/mystery, The Gore Gore Girls.
When the body count
begins to mount at the local strip club (run by none other than Henny Youngman)
— Suzie Cream Puff, Candy Cane and the lovely Pickles all meet horrible deaths
at the hands of a masked killer — a hot-shot reporter by name of Nancy (Amy
Farrell), from the tell-all rag, “The Globe,” thinks that the gruesome crimes
might be a terrific story and a great photo spread.
To make this happen, she
recruits Abe Gentry (Frank Kress), a sleazy and in-your-face PI, to get to the
bottom of it … and to be her personal guide into the lurid world of strip clubs
and these violent murders.
With Herschell Gordon
Lewis as the filmmaker you know that the killings will be blood red and
controversial (meaning: “let’s ban this”) and The Gore Gore Girls does
not disappoint. The film is also a bit
of a mystery, with plenty of “obvious” suspects in the mix … a nice twist at
the end, with poor Nancy as bait, gives us both the killer and a happy ending
(time to go home)!
Included with The
Gore Gore Girls is director Herschell Gordon Lewis’ 1971 film, This
Stuff'll Kill Ya! … plus there are commentary options for both films — The
Gore Gore Girls is a vintage commentary from Lewis and This
Stuff'll Kill Ya! features camera operator and Lewis biographer Daniel
Krogh.
There are also three
featurettes — “Author Stephen Thrower on The Gore Gore Girls,” “Regional
Bloodshed” and “Herschell Spills His Guts.”
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