The Gruesome Twosome is a 1967 American exploitation

Exploitation

This article discusses the term exploitation in the meaning of using something in an unjust or cruel manner.- As unjust benefit :In political economy, economics, and sociology, exploitation involves a persistent social relationship in which certain persons are being mistreated or unfairly used for...

 horror

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 movie directed and produced by Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Herschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror...

. It stars Elizabeth Davis, Gretchen Wells and Chris Martell.

Synopsis

Mrs Pringle owns a wig shop in a little town in Florida, but she is a demented woman who lives with her mentally retarded son, Rodney, in a home where she rents rooms to young co-eds attending the local university. At the same time some girls disappear; they are killed and scalped by a mysterious murderer. When Kathy, a co-ed attending the university nearby, tries to figure out who is killing her classmates, the police discover the terrible truth about the fate of the young victims. And the truth, of course, involves Mrs Pringle and her son.

Cast

• Elizabeth Davis: Mrs. Pringle
• Gretchen Wells: Kathy Baker
• Chris Martell: Rodney Pringle
• Rodney Bedell: Dave Hall
• Ronnie Cass: Nancy Harris
• Karl Stoeber: Mr. Spinsen
• Dianne Wilhite: Janet
• Andrea Barr: Susan
• Dianne Raymond: Dawn Farrell
• Sherry Robinson: Lisa
• Barrie Walton: Neighbor Lady
• Marcelle Bichette: Jane
• Tom Brent: Neighbor Man
• Mike Todd: Mike

Trivia

• After the end of the filming, nobody wanted to release the movie because the runtime was too short. So Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis
  Herschell Gordon Lewis is an American filmmaker, best known for creating the "splatter film" subgenre of horror...
  
  added some new footages of a drive-in and some talking wigs to extend the runtime. So the movie was enough long to be released.
• This is the first horror movie in which one of the character uses an electric carving knife to kill his victims.