The Gruesome Twosome (1967)

Director
Herschell Gordon Lewis

Main cast
Elizabeth Davis; Gretchen Wells; Chris Martell; Rodney Bedell; Ray Sager

Genres
Comedy, Horror

Description
A demented, elderly woman has her mentally retarded son kill and scalp various young women to use their hair for her wig shop. A persistent coed tries to link various killings on a local Florida college campus to them.


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