Sexy Killer (2008)

Directed by: Miguel Marti

Written by: Paco Cabezas

The title pretty much says it all!! Not only does she got you by the heart, she's got you by the balls. Barbara (played by Macarena Gomez) is a femme fatale with a bag full of decapitated heads. She's a card-carrying psychopath who has a story to tell. Her audience just happens to be a guy who hit her dog. A guy whose hand she has knifed to the hood of his car. In other words he's captivated. The whole movie plays out as she tells him about herself, and her victims, about how she's a college student who goes around killing people on a whim. Because she likes someone's dress, because someone is bad at sex, because someone prank called her, because they hit her dog with a car.She doesn't really need a reason to kill.But she's good at her job, and she looks damn good while doing it.

She orchestrates these slayings in the most hilarious ways possible,

advertising the plastic bag she's gonna throw over some poor saps head,

stabbing her high heels into the temple of unsuspecting masochist,

locking some beauty in a bathroom stall and ramming a mop-stick through her head,

or beating a cops neck in with the trunk of a car. It's all in a days work.

But what she doesn't know is that her lover has built a machine,

one that can display the thoughts of the dead.

To say the least this movie doesn't waste any time starting up, it comes out of the gate like Speedy Gonzalez hopped up on meth-amphetamines. Shower-room nudity in the first second - death in the first 5 minutes.

It's a really fast-paced, meta-fictional, Spanish horredy, teaming with a bevy of quirky characters!!

Everyone is a total clown, and everyone pulls off their role with comedic bravado. Meaning all the acting is so over the top it feels like a circus of pure madness! And I loved it, I really did, despite the fact that the subtitles whizzed by as fast as it's plot.(which is really my only complaint). It wasn't unreadable like some of the asian flicks out there, but it was a strain on the eyes. The plot felt like Screams wacky wayward cousin,

It was wild & all over the place! Cluttered with lines, costumes, & gags from other movies like: Scream, Crocodile Dundee, Taxi Driver, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Unforgettable, etc. Point is; it unapologetically wore it's influences like a quilt of many colors. What's even more insane, is that the whole movie 20 minutes from the end turns into a Re-Animator zombie romp, if you can believe that. And suffice it to say; the zombies all looked excellent, not even a drop of cop-out in that department!! Would have liked to have seen it dubbed, as it would have been easier to enjoy. The acting was over the top, the FX were spot-on, and the plot was an absolute mad man!! You're going to love Barbara (name lifted from Night of the living Dead) And you're going to love this movie.

8 out of 10

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Women's liberation means "freeing the beast" all over the back of some guys head.