The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1967
Running Times: 71m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Eastmancolor
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: mono

DIRECTION

Director: Herschell Gordon Lewis

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Mayflower Pictures
Executive Producer: Fred M. Sandy
Producer: Herschell Gordon Lewis
Assistant Producer: J.G. Patterson Jr
Production Manager: William Kerwin

SCRIPT
Script: Louise Downe (real name: Allison Louise Downe)

DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Louise Downe (real name: Allison Louise Downe)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Camera Operator: Roy Collodi

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editorial Supervisor: George Regas

MUSIC
Musical Arrangements: Larry Wellington

SOUND
Sound: William Johnson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Wigs: Enrico of Miami

MISCELLANEOUS
Crew Chief: Cal Bowman

CAST

Elizabeth Davis (Mrs Pringle)
Gretchen Wells (Dawn)
Chris Martell (Rodney)
Rodney Bedell (Dave)
Ronnie Cass (Kathy)
Karl Stoeber
Dianne Wilhite
Andrea Barr
Dianne Raymond
Sherry Robinson
Barrie Walton
Marcelle Bichette
Tom Brent
Mike Todd
C.A. Dukes
Barbara Kerwin
Kim Kerwin
Kay Warden
Irene Stoeber
Michael Lewis
Robert Lewis
Frank Slander
Donna Merrill
Irene Speel
Joseph Delino
Sherri Lane
Ray Sager

Mrs Pringle and her son Rodney have an odd way of keeping their wig shop in stock - they rent a room to young female students who they then scalp! One of the students, Kathy decides that she wants to track down the killer when her friend Dawn falls victim to the Pringles...

A tatty black comedy enlivened only by Lewis' trademark gore effects. It tries desperately hard to be funny but ends up looking merely foolish, though the dreadful acting that we'd come to expect from Lewis's films is often quite hysterical. The plot is said to have inspired William Lustig's rather better Maniac (1980).

UK
DVD Distributor: Tartan Video (TVD 3314)

USA
Video Distributors: Midnight Video; Rhino Video; Something Weird Video; VCI Home Video

USA
Rating: unrated

The most barbaric humor since the guillotine went out of style!

Oh Yes... Our Wigs Are Made From Genuine Human Hair, And How!

SEE ALSO
Maniac (1980)

REFERENCES

PERIODICALS

Sight and Sound vol.12 no.1 (January 2002) p.62 (UK)
DVD review (by Ben Walters)

scalping; wigs; serial killers; gore

Last Updated: 19 March, 2010