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Over the years there have been a
few examples of wrestling themed movies. These include
Nacho Libre, Ready to rumble and Grunt to name a few.
However, none of them have ever crossed over into a horror theme
and featured a wrestling character as a mass murdering lead
villain. This is where WRESTLEMANIAC comes in, and shows us what
happens when the wrestling world and horror film world collide.
Starring Rey Misterio Sr and
former
WWE diva search girl Leyla Milani, Wrestlemaniac tells
the story of El Mascarado, a deranged, former Mexican wrestling
star, who has been exiled to a deserted ghost town named "La Songre De Dios" (or the blood of god).
The film opens as a
amateur porn group travels through
Mexico in hopes of arriving at a popular beach to shoot
what they hope to be the next great porn film. This is where we
meet most of the cast. There is Alphonse, the dirty porn
director. Steve, his camera man and a American
born Mexican, who is also a wrestling aficionado. Debbie and
Dallas (Leyla Milani), the lead female porn stars, who
are also joined by Daisy, who happens to be passed out in the
car from partying a bit too hard. Finally there is Jimbo,
brother of Debbie, and a guy who enjoys his weed, so much so
that he agreed to let his van be used and tag along without
realizing it. Having been travelling for many hours already,
Debbie asks to pull off for a rest stop. The crew stops in at a
seemingly abandoned gas station and encounter The Stranger who
is also a wrestling fan and dons a mask when he exits the shack
and scares the crew. The Stranger informs them that the next
town is about a hundred miles away but Alphonse realizes he only
has about 50 miles worth of gas in the tank, and
with no gas available at this broken down station, The Stranger
tells them they will have to go south for gas, but by dong so
would have to pass through La Songre De Dios which immediately
gets a rise out of Steve who realizes what that city is all
about. Legend has it that many years prior, Mexican wrestling
star El Mascarado was put there after he went
crazy and began tearing peoples skin off their faces. Alphonse
laughs it off as nothing but a legend, and as the crew begins
down the road, determines that the ghost town would be the
perfect location for their porn film. The girls are scared and
dont want to stop their, but as you would expect that doesnt
matter as, Alphonse ends up driving the truck over a major
boulder in the road which causes the truck to break down right
on the border of La Songre De Dios. The crew decides to enter
the deserted town and proceed to begin filming their initial
scenes in a broken down bar. Just as they start to get into it,
Daisy awakes from her deep sleep and joins in on the fun, but
only seconds later becomes sick and runs off to vomit, while
doing so she gets lost in the fields and accidently cuts her
foot on some glass, and while she tries to pull the shards out
is attacked by someone. As the crew waits for her to return,
Steve reviews the footage he had shot and noticed that there was
a separate shadow outside the building when Daisy had run out,
the crew decides that it would be best to leave, but first Jimbo
would venture out to try and find Daisy, he is eventually
attacked by someone as well. Meanwhile the group tries to start
the van which is still broken down, Leyla Milanis character
knows how to repair cars because her father owns a show, so
while she stays behind, the rest of the crew head out to find
Jimbo and Daisy. While searching inside a
abandoned building, Debbie finds Jim dead with his face skin
ripped off, Steve realizes this is exactly how El Mascarado
would kill people and thus he must be here. Alphonse, now high
on coke, begins to freak out, and tries to run out of the
building, this is when he sees the figure of El Mascarado at the
end of the hall, and its time for the faceoff to begin!
WRESTLEMANIAC certainly scores
points with me for its originality, being both a horror film and
wrestling fan, it was really cool to see both worlds come
together. That being said It is a low-budget production, and
follows a lot of your typical horror film storylines. This fact
is not necessarily a bad thing, it depends on your personal
taste. Visually I think the film comes together very well,
however some of the blood effects were noticeably cheap. The
film is also fairly short at an hour and fifteen minutes, but
more time probably would of slowed it down too much.
In closing, WRESTLEMANIAC is
something you can enjoy if your both a wrestling and horror film
fan, mainly because its like nothing we have seen before. Id
like to note that before im told that See No Evil was basically
Kane on film, the actual storyline of that film had nothing to
do with Kane or a wrestler so I consider it something different,
WRESTLEMANIAC has an actual wrestling character as the killer,
which is pretty cool to me, but I will say that despite its
unique premise, if you have grown tired of the very cookie
cutter horror film playouts then you may have some trouble
getting through it.
WRESTLEMANIAC is now available on
DVD from Anchor Bay Entertainment. You can pick it up at your
favorite online DVD retailers like
Amazon or check out your local video outlet who may have
it as well. You can check out the films trailer at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KldPXfcoWQg
or For more information you can check out
www.anchorbayent.com
and as always you can check out my previous DVD reviews at
www.maineventradio.com/reviews.htm
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