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An amateur
porn-film director and his crew are on
their way to a beach in Mexico to shoot a new porn
flick. Uneducated as they are, they soon find
themselves lost in the Mexican desert and stumble
onto a ghost town called "La Sangre de Dios" where,
according to the legend, a psychopathic wrestler is
still seeking new victims. The director sees potential
in the abandoned town though and decides to shoot his
movie there. Bad idea. Soon enough the maniacal
wrestler starts killing them off, one by one.
The movie ends with a bumper sticker saying "Keep it
simple", and I'm guessing that this movie was based
on that catch-phrase because Wrestlemaniac doesn't
exactly go out of its way to be a complex horror
flick. On the contrary, Wrestlemaniac is as generic
as slashers get. They've put a bunch of slutty
bimbo's with no personality what-so-ever in the
desert together with a masked serial killer - in this
case it's a wrestler. I'm guessing they were trying
to do a mix between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and
WWE, but failed at blending the two things together
(what a shocker ey?).
I wasn't much of a fan of "See No Evil", I found it
to be quite mediocre to be honest with you. Perhaps
because I'm not a big fan of wrestling, or perhaps
because there simply wasn't anything special about it,
but it does beat the crap out of Wrestlemaniac. Here
we have three big-busted porn actresses just waiting
to give us some T&A, a no-good junkie amateur director
who stars in his own productions, a dorky fat guy who
knows everything about the legend, and some stoned
teen who doesn't have anything to do with anything,
on their way to shoot a low-budget porno flick when
they stumble onto a ghost town in which they decide
to stay for whatever reason.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the masked
wrestler soon shows up and starts killing them off
by ripping their faces off. Now all of this might
sound very intriguing to you, but believe me, it's not.
There's not a whole lot of plot here, as you've
probably all ready guessed, there's also not that
much gore to be found in here, and the killer is just
beyond lame if you ask me. I mean seriously, a killer
who follows the rules of wrestling? Gee, I should've
known from the title that this wouldn't be a great flick.
However, the movie does have some redeeming qualities
that I feel like I have to point out. First of all
there's the look of the movie. Wrestlemaniac is very
nicely shot and looks like it had decent production
values. The directing is surprisingly good and there
are even one or two good scares to be found in here.
The make-up effects are also quite good and even if
there's not a whole lot of gore, the blood splatter
looks incredibly realistic. Heck, had they only had
a better cast, a better storyline and a better killer,
this could have been one hell of a slasher.
But even though Wrestlemaniac has a bunch of potential,
I couldn't help but to feel that this was made for 15
year old boys who think that wrestling is awesome and
that boobs make a movie brilliant. It's definitely
no masterpiece if you ask me, it's silly and watchable
at best, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you're a
big fan of wrestling. Something which I'm not.
A couple of bloody faces, a lot of blood spraying,
some faces ripped off and a couple of impalement. I'll
be honest with you, I had expected more gore.
Well the soundtrack is great, I'll give it that.
Everything from the Mexican music to the dance music
works brilliantly together with the concept of the
movie - good job!
While technically competent, Wrestlemaniac is just too
silly to be good. It's got a generic and cheesy concept,
it's got an atrocious cast, it's got a pathetic killer
and the ending is brutally lame. Only for fans of WWE,
I can't see anyone else enjoying this. I'm sorry,
I know that these guys tried hard to make a good
movie, but it just didn't happen.
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