I really don’t know what to tell you about this movie. I realized going into it I’d probably be disappointed, but part of me still wanted to see what a horror movie with a psycho-wrestler would be like. In this case, its pretty crappy. El Mascarado Massacre (aka, Wrestlemaniac) fails to deliver in so many ways. As a kid, I loved watching pro-wrestling. Not this new stuff, but back in the glory days of Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. I also watched a lot of slasher flicks as a kid. The best of both worlds … right? No! This is the worst of both worlds. Granted, the story centers on Mexican wrestling, but really its all basically the same.

A group of people take a van deep into Mexico to shoot a “porno-action” film. The van party consists of a highly annoying, crudely-spoken a**hole, two sober semi-lesbian hot chicks (one with terrible fake boobs), one totally drunk hot chick, one blond stoner-dude and one fat guy obsessed with Mexican wrestling who also is the group’s cameraman. Coming to the realization they are lost, they stop at an old run-down gas station and speak to the crazy old “native” who is as disgusting looking as he is a terrible actor. In traditional horror style, he warns them not to stop when traveling through Le Sangre De Dios, a ghost town rumored to be the prison of the legendary El Mascarado, a Mexican wrestler who went crazy and started killing his opponents. Laughing this off, the group does just what they’re told not to and soon find themselves being picked off, one by one, by the crazy wrestler monster.

Horrible story, horrible dialogue, horrible acting … the only horror to this horror film is sitting through the entire thing. I’m actually surprised the cinematography looked as professional as it did, because the rest of the movie unbelievably bad. Think Battlefield Earth bad, except its a slasher-genre film. I was at least hoping for some cool, creative wrestling-inspired killing on the part of El Mascarado, but we are severely let down on that level. Steve, the guy obsessed with Mexican wrestling, references how to defeat the killer several times in the movie but they … oops, sorry. I almost gave away the ending. Honestly, if you’re smart you’ll never know the ending. In traditional horror style, I am warning you NOT to waste your time and/or money on this movie. But, I know some of you will watch it anyway …

Tags | jesse baget, rey misterio, wrestlemaniac