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After their latest hit, Beretta (Nelli Scarlet), Blondie (Karli Madden)
and Snowball (Kate Watts), a trio of female assassins, hide out in a
beachhouse of a friend of theirs to keep a low profile - or as low a
profile as they can keep considering their drinking, partying and drug
habits. Their neighbour, wheelchair-bound Joseph (Norman Yemm), doesn't
seem to care much ... until they go into the water, then he for some
reason totally loses his cool, yells at them, threatens them and whatnot -
not that he would have any effect, being an old man in a wheelchair. Joseph's
goodie-two-shoes granddaughter Hannah (Kyrie Capri) however feels
strangely drawn to the three wild girls, who introduce her to a life she
has never known due to lack of opportunity. However, after a night of
heavy partying, she also learns about the dark sides of this kind of life,
namely a crippling hangover. After the night of partying, Snowball is
gone, and when Beretta and Blondie go look for her, they find a beach
covered in fresh bodyparts, and they find dying Snowball, stammering
something about a sea monster. Beretta and Blondie pay Joseph a visit,
and violently force him to tell them the secret of the village, a secret
not even Hannah is aware of: Turns out the now godforsaken village was
once a thriving tourist spot ... until a sea monster killed off almost the
entire populace, including Hannah's parents. Then the seamonster has
suddenly vanished, until the other day. And as soon as Joseph has finished
his story, something seems to be attacking his house - the seamonster of
course ...
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Three sexy assassins, a coastal
town with a dark secret, and a sea monster: You might have guessed it, El
Monstro del Mar! is basically a throwback to drive-in and grindhouse
cinema from (roughly) the 1950’s to the 1970’s. And it works better
thanm most other hommages, too, because it doesn’t try to ironically
distance itself from its source material, give it a so-called post-modern
treatment, reinterpret it without properly understanding it of just
“update” it with a handful of
glossy CGI-effects, flashy editing, and half-baked pop culture references every half minute or so.
Nope, El Monstro del Mar! is the
real deal, and the only way it might improve upon its source material is
through stringent storytelling, proper buildup of tension, and fleshed-out
characters – and while the finished product might not exactly win an
originality prize (monster movies rarely do, it comes with the fact that
the word “monster” in “monster movies” is too much of a giveaway,
it’s still 75 minutes of very fine genre entertainment.
Recommended, actually.
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