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Red Venom Kills
USA 2017
produced by Britton Stebbins for Legs Productions, Comic Trash Productions
directed by Britton Stebbins
starring Alexa Rae, Deana Hernandez, Britton Stebbins, David Bonandrini, Brian Kasgorgis, Niki Haze, Sako Manavdjian, Kyler Mitchell, James Danger, Alexander Ray, Bill Dyer, Tijuan McLittle, Cory Alphin, Michael Giggs, Melissa O'Brien (voice), Shelley Grzymkowski (voice)
written by Britton Stebbins, music by Darian Watson
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Scarlet (Alexa Rae) is a young prostitute walking the streets of Silk
City who's lured into an ambush and then stabbed, incidently by the very
trio who killed her parents years ago. More dead than alive, Scarlet
manages to drag herself back home where she receives a message from her
mother from the netherworld telling her about a potion she has left her
which will not only heal her wounds in an instance, but also make her
super seductive, give her superhuman strength, and she gets a special
poison to kill her enemies off. So from now on, Scarlet walks the street
as Red Venom, a masked superheroine in a very skimpy outfit, to attract
all evildoers. And she has soon gone through those who had killed her
parents and were trying to kill her, and the usual street scum, before
getting on the trail of Dark Widow (Danna Hernandez), a streetwalker
turned arch-villain who seduces her prey to their respective doom.
Meanwhile though, cop Tom (Britton Stebbins) has gotten on Red Venom's
trail, but trying to get hold of her he has fallen in love with her, and
she returns his affections - which turns out to be her weakness, as Red
Venom has closed in on Dark Widow, but then Dark Widow kidnaps Tom,
resetting the whole game in her favour ...
Now one thing's for sure, Red Venom Kills, while not at
all a comedy, is by no means to be taken seriously: Basically, it's made
up from mainstays from yesteryear's B movies, pulps and comicbooks, and
despite ultimately being about female empowerment, it's not exactly
politically correct - and at least for fans of nostalgic genre fare in
whatever medium, these are the major selling points of Red Venom Kills,
because as simplistic as it might look at first glance, the movie actually
knows exactly what it's talking about, relying on comicbook-like imagery
(including a very primary colour scale), outrageous plot devices and old
school sexy undertones that are hard to resist. But most of all, this
movie is just unapologetic fun, which with an open mind you'll probably
also enjoy if you haven't got any insight into above-mentioned
backgrounds.
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