Director: Jesse Baget
Genre: Horror
Summary: When a low-budget porno director decides to shoot his next film in a shady ghost town somewhere in Mexico, things take a turn for the worst. It seems this ghost town was once the home of the masked wrestler-turned murderer, El Maskerado. No one will escape!
Impressions: The biggest problem of this film is that the director forgot to make us like the protagonists. At no point in this movie are we ever told anything about them other than they’ve driven all the way to Mexico to shoot five minutes of pornography. The rest of the time, they’re insulting each other and generally making very bad choices with their lives.
There’s actually a fairly interesting but ludicrous backstory behind El Maskerado, the killer of this flick, but only one of the characters really cares about it, and the rest are too busy doing drugs or having sex with each other to notice anything. What’s really sad is that throughout the film the wrestling affecianado character is constantly touting the “one weakness” of El Maskerado, something that is dangled in front of us but never serves a purpose. Why even put it in the film if you weren’t going to use it?
Unfortunately, by the time you reach the climax of the film, the only character worth caring about is already dead and with them goes any interest viewers will probably have in the story, since at this point all that’s left is to kill the remaining fodder. Realizing this, the director threw as much T&A as he could into the final scenes, hoping you wouldn’t notice how boring the story has become.
The most confusing part of the film is the final scene. It’s obvious that El Maskerado has been murdering people for some time. So, where are the bodies? Where are their possessions and vehicles? Why does El Maskerado choose this time to leave El Sangre de Dios? My only rationale is that he was planning to dispose of the bodies in a place where he didn’t live.
This movie gets one star for one humorous moment and a couple clever shots near the end but it’s mostly out of pity for the wrestling fan who gets it in the end.
1 out of 5
Note: To all you wrestling fans out there, El Maskerado was played by Rey Misterio, Sr., the uncle of WWE wrestler Rey Mysterio, Jr.
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