TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Dalbert Pringle This is now the 3rd garbage horror film that I've seen which was directed by American, film-maker, H. G. Lewis - And I am now totally convinced that Lewis was nothing but the absolute worst and most pathetically incompetent movie-maker of all time.And I now refuse to ever watch another one of this moron's utterly awful movies ever again - 'Cause I'm totally convinced that they would be just like these 3 that I've already seen - Pure junk.Yes. Even though 1967's "The Gruesome Twosome" was a truly vile and amateur production - Its story did actually produce some genuine howls of unintentional laughter - But, in the long run - At a 72-minute running time - This story about a slobbering, dimwitted "psycho-scalper" and his wacky mother was so bad that it was downright unbearable to sit through.And speaking about idiotic dialogue and cringe-worthy acting - Between actresses Gretchen Welles' "Kathy" and Elizabeth Davis's "Mrs. Pringle" - These 2 women and their irksome performances were, without question, the absolute bottom-of-the-barrel.

fitloft I really have no choice but than to give this freak-show a 10. This makes Ed wood and his Plan 9 look like Orson Welles and Citizen Kane! From start to finish is like being on a continuous acid trip...Mrs Pringle and the statue of Napoleon the Leopard to the dancing Kentucky fried chicken eating coeds to Terrance and his girlfriend eating potato chips, mauling fruit and drinking Michelob beer. Rodney the mentally ill murdering son which bids the evil doing scalping, delivers a tour DE force performance which Anthony Hopkins could learn a thing or two from. Sit back , smoke a blunt or better yet magic mushrooms and prepare yourself for a riot!!!!

Paul Andrews The Gruesome Twosome starts with a bizarre scene of two Styrofoam mannequin heads talking to each other or maybe it's the wigs on them, I don't really know or care that much. After this one of a kind sequence were in business as a female student who is looking for a room to rent ends up at 'The Little Wig Shop' run by the batty Mrs. Pringle (Elizabeth Davis) who likes to talk to her stuffed cat Napoleon & lure unsuspecting girls into the back room where her retarded son Rodney (Chris Martell) kills & scalps them which is how they manage to make wigs with 100% real hair. So far three girls have disappeared & student Kathy Baker (Gretchen Wells) decides to do a little investigating of her own but doesn't get very far & forgets about it when her boyfriend Dave Hall (Rodney Bedell) starts to moan. However, when her roommate & friend Dawn Farrell (Dianne Raymond) tries to rent a room at The Little Wig Shop & goes missing Kathy becomes suspicious. Kathy feels sure that the weird Mrs. Pringle is involved & breaks into The Little Wig Shop to try & discover the truth no matter how horrifying...Produced & directed by the supposed Godfather of gore Herschell Gordon Lewis The Gruesome Twosome was one of his latter splatter films & frankly one of his worst, probably second only to Color Me Blood Red (1965) & if you have seen any of Mr. Lewis's filmography then you will realise that's saying something in itself! The script by Allison Louise Downe is atrocious as it's merely 65 minutes worth of excruciatingly dull & boring padding with four gore scenes edited in there. The drawn out scene where Mr Spinsen (Karl Stoeber) is suspected by Kathy & followed home, the pointless dialogue between the Styrofoam heads at the start, the mind bogglingly tedious scene at the drive-in which has to be seen to be believed where we are treated to shots of someone eating some crisps, some fruit & drinking beer in close-up for some unfathomable reason, various embarrassingly lame dancing scenes & it seemed just about every shot in The Gruesome Twosome was at least as twice as long as it needed to be. The Gruesome Twosome is a real chore to sit through & would easily test the patience of a saint, it's just so boring & shamelessly padded out. The incompetent Lewis again serves up some over-the-top gore scenes which are mildly fun in a silly sort of way & stop The Gruesome Twosome from getting 1 star instead of a (somewhat generous) 3. A woman is scalped at the beginning in a sequence which probably features one of the most unconvincing special make-up effects ever put on celluloid, someone is gutted, someone has their throat slit with an electric carving knife & someone gets a needle in their eyeball. Unfortunately these scenes don't particularly compensate for the sleep inducing rubbish that goes to make up the rest of The Gruesome Twosome. Technically The Gruesome Twosome is awful, static one shot cinematography, bad music that gets on the nerves very quickly & some seriously bad special effects. The acting is very poor by everyone & that's all that needs to be said. So, The Gruesome Twosome is a stupid, incoherent, tedious, boring, padded out to the max & totally lifeless horror film that simply doesn't cut the mustard as entertainment except a couple of gory killings which look awful anyway. Definitely one to avoid, watch Lewis's Blood Feast (1963) instead.

Eegah Guy If this film seems padded and too long at 72 minutes that's because it is. Because of an incompetent production assistant director Lewis had to pad the film out with bizarre scenes like the opening dialog between two wig-wearing styrofoam heads and a hilarious drive-in movie the main characters watch that consists of people drinking beer and eating/squashing fruit, not to mention the drawn-out scene of girls dancing while munching on Kentucky Fried Chicken. This film is a treasure to behold for 60s exploitation film buffs as the black humor and gore flows freely and the 60s fashions are as garish as can be.