The '60's seems to be a sort of forgotten age when it comes down to horror but it's forgotten a very good reason. Some absolutely horrible, cheap Z-grade genre movies got made during that period, that seemed to be a transition age between the B-horror monster movies from the '50's and the '70's slasher genre.This movie is bad and lacking at about every department but yes, this luckily is one of those movies that is so silly and bad that it actually becomes entertaining. The movie will make you laugh, just because of how bad it all is, so you can still definitely get some joy out of it.The story isn't even the biggest complain for this movie, that features some extremely poor directing and acting in it. I just couldn't believe how some of the scenes kept dragging on, for no apparent reason and how pointless and random some of the moments within this movie were. What was with all that dancing for instance. And even with those overlong and pointless sequences, the movie is still only 72 minutes short.It's hard to take this movie very seriously, when it has such bad writing, directing and acting involved. But obvious reason for all of this was also its incredibly low budget. This is basically the biggest downfall of the movie and makes it the bad and silly product that it is. They simply didn't had any money to spend it on some decent equipment, its setting, actors and other talents involved. The movie still manages to be quite gory and some of its make-up effects were definitely good looking but when the rest of the movie is being so laughable as is the case with this movie, nothing really works out in it.I was still entertained by it but all for the wrong reasons though.3/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

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.

Look if this was the first Herschell Gordon Lewis movie I'd ever seen it would probably be the last. Luckily I've seen his blood trilogy so I can't dismiss him entirely, but this is easily the weakest of his movies I've seen. The script (by the 'Blood Feast' writer) is trash, and while the movie only goes on for 70 minutes it really drags on and is full of unnecessary padding. Some of this padding is quite odd, such as the opening talking wigs sequence, and the gratuitous KFC eating go-go dancing bit (an early bit of product placement from Lewis), but mostly it's dull. I will admit that the handful of gore sequences are quite realistic for Lewis (that is certainly not always the case!), and Chris Martell makes an okay baddie in the Arch Hall Jr mold, but he doesn't get anywhere as much screen time Elizabeth Davis who is awful, unfunny and totally irritating. Acting in Lewis movies is very variable to say the least, but 'The Gruesome Twosome' has one of the most untalented casts I've ever seen. So, the verdict is only watch this if you are a Lewis obsessive, otherwise newcomers should avoid this one and go straight to 'Two Thousand Maniacs!' or 'Color Me Blood Red' which tie as his best two gore movies.

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.