The Gruesome Twosome

     This film by Herschell Gordon Lewis (of the famed Blood Trilogy movies) is by far one of his weirdest films. And that's really something considering the kind of movies he made. You see, H.G. Lewis mostly made disgusting gore movies, the first of their kind actually. Nobody seemed to notice the extremely bad acting, the bad sound, the bad sets, the bad continuity, etc. All we cared about was that it was a new and ironically fun, albeit completely gross genre of movies. 

      In this particular farce, there is a sweet but extremely odd old lady who constantly talks to a stuffed cat named Napoleon and runs a little wig shop near a college campus. She also has a room for rent that mysteriously stays vacant even though several young ladies come to the wig shop to inquire about it.  Coincidentally, the girls that come to rent the room are never heard from again, but their stylish hairdos are being seen worn by the coolest chicks on campus. 

      It seems the old lady also has a mentally challenged grandson named Rodney (a grown man who thinks he's a six-year-old child) who actually does the scalping for her. Half comedy and half gore. Not horror, just gore. There's a difference. Horror makes you scared and gore usually just makes you gag and then laugh about it. Anyway, it certainly made me laugh, and that's the important thing. 

      This movie also has the strangest intro of any movie I think I've ever seen in my life, and I've seen a heck of a lot of strange movies, man. It's two styrofoam heads discussing the mysterious events that have been taking place around the campus, a scene that has to be seen to be believed!  Truth is, the only reason that this incredibly weird intro exists is because the film was considered too short on running time and needed a few more minutes added to it to make it full feature length.  Definitely one of my all-time favorites!