Mrs. Pringle (Elizabeth Davis) is a delightful old biddy who runs a wig shop. She’s quirky, she’s eccentric, and she has a bit of a supply chain issue. You see, synthetic hair is for amateurs. Mrs. Pringle only deals in the real deal.

Enter her son, Rodney (Chris Martell). Rodney is… well, Rodney is a lot. He’s got the mental capacity of a toddler and the hobby of a 17th-century frontiersman. He spends his days renting rooms to local college girls, only to promptly scalp them to keep his mother’s inventory fresh.

Herschell Gordon Lewis was never one for subtlety, but the opening of The Gruesome Twosome is truly in a league of its own. Before we even see a drop of gore, we watch two styrofoam heads talk to one another. This opening four-minute segment was filmed in Chicago, months after production ended. During post-production, it was discovered that the running time was too short.

In case you wonder why people are eating Kentucky Fried Chicken while go-go dancing, Lewis was an advertising guy and would always make a deal with the franchise to appear in his movies so that he could feed it to his cast. Just imagine: Hot Florida weather, gore made from sheep guts that sits in Lysol when not used, and slowly growing cold, greasy chicken. This is what his movies crawled from, like primordial proto-slasher amphibians that have just learned to emerge on land. 

You can watch this on Cultpix.