Review by case-50

I love the crazy campy gore extravaganzas of Herschell Gordon Lewis and I also love the classic murder mysteries, but when I finally got around to see this one, I never expected to see a mixture of the two... and what a perfect mixture it is!

The movie is basically built up as a hard boiled murder mystery with all its typical charachers and story elements. We got some murders (of the most gory kind of course, this is a HGL movie afterall!), we got a very cynical, respected and amusingly egocentric private detective, we have a pretty lady reporter as his (at first) not too appreciated side-kick, an inept police officer who is annoyed by the detective, some fist figths, actual detective work, decoy suspects and a surprise revelation at the end. And all of this works surprisingly well, it is actually a good mystery movie, with great (yet super campy) characters and very funny witty dialogue all along, not just some poorly written stuff that is only there to lead up to the bloody murders.

But the people who are here for the more typical HGL treatment also get all they signed up for: sleaze, extremely nasty gore, strippers (even an amateur strip contest!) and all else any gore and exploitation fans can hope for. Definitely my favorite HGL movie.