Storyline: A series of gruesome murders is occurring at a seedy strip club, leaving the strippers there in fear for their lives. In an effort to uncover the truth and break a major news story, a beautiful reporter teams up with a suave detective. Together, they sift through clues that point to a bizarre vegetable-obsessed killer, a disturbing college student, and a band of militant feminists.
This features the infamous scene where the killer scissors off the nipples of one of his victims, only for milk and chocolate milk to flow out instead of blood.
Herschell Gordon Lewis considered this to be one of his finest films.
Despite the film's amount of gore being deemed excessive, & the acting was deemed hokey, this is the most praised of Herschell Gordon Lewis's works. The film's themes of sex positivity, body positivity, modesty, Vietnam trauma, chauvinism were deemed ahead of its time.
Henny Youngman's scenes were shot in one day.
This was the only movie Herschell Gordon Lewis submitted to the MPAA; they gave it an X rating.
Herschell Gordon Lewis' last film until Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002).
