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Wrestlemassacre
USA 2018
produced by Richie Acevedo, Julio Bana Fernandez, Brad Twigg, Tim Fattig (executive), Darren Ricci (executive), Justin Roddy (executive), Wraith Roddy (executive), David Strege (executive), Gary Lee Vincent (executive) for Fuzzy Monkey Films
directed by Brad Twigg
starring Richie Acevedo, Rosanna Nelson, Julio Bana Fernandez, Rene Dupree, Brandy Mason, Jimmy Flame, Alex Neumeier, Luba Hansen, Nicholas Yoder II, Jesse L. Green, Andy Vineberg, Nathan Hine, Rick Jermain, Chris O'Brocki, Jason John Beebe, Nikolai Volkoff (= Josip Peruzovic), Jimmy Valiant, Johnny Youngblood, Nadia White, Tony Atlas, James L. Edwards, Gary Lee Vincent, Jim Fullington, Manny Fernandez, Cayt Feinics, Eric Danger Dionne, Daniel Brooks, Joseph Gardner, Ryan Vox, Dee Moody, George Stover, Shawn C. Phillips, Hayley Keys, Preston Quinn, Aaron Brazier, Nick Superchi, Angel Miguel Torres, Darren Ricci
story by Brad Twigg, screenplay by Brad Twigg, Matthew L. Furman, additional material by Julio Bana Fernandez, Rosanna Nelson, music by Toshiyuki Hiraoka, special effects by James Bell, Matty Calhoun, Nathan Hine, Marcus Koch, special effects makeup by Daniel Brooks, Bethany Shana, Brad Twigg
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Randy (Richie Acevedo), a mild-mannered landscaper and son of a
legendary wrestler (Nikolai Volkoff), is pushed around by pretty much
everyone, be it his boss (Rick Jermain), his boss's no-good son (Chris
O'Brocki), or his customers. For self esteem, he wants to go to a
wrestling school, but once there he's humiliated by the owner (Jimmy
Valiant). The only one who has nice words for him is a customer ofhis,
Becky (Rosanna Nelson), someone he soon falls madly in love with, even if
the feeling isn't mutual.
Becky's engaged to Owen (Julio Bana Fernandez), a deadbeat who can't
keep his shit together, has a bad spending habit, has a debt with mob boss
Mr. Valentine (Nicholas Yoder II), and even though he knows Valentine's
goons are after him, he does little to make some money to pay up other
than "investing" in crazy bets. So eventually, when they're
having a party, Valentine and his men arrive to have their revenge, not
only on him, but also Becky and his guests.
In the meantime, Randy has had enough, and possessed by a demon, he
turns into a super wrestler, and now takes down everybody who has ever
wronged him - violently. He makes it to Becky's place just when Valentine
and co are doubling down on her and Owen and their guests, and takes the
baddies out one by one - only, he doesn't stop there ...
With a film titled Wrestlemassacre, you really get what
you expect, a slasher movie with a killer wrestler who leaves a trail of
blood behind, in setpieces that employ traditional wrestling moves with
gore effects - and many a pro-wrestler in the cast sweeten the deal,
really. Stylistically, the movie's reminiscent of 1980s genre cinema,
which makes perfect sense as that era was the golden age of both wrestling
and slasher movies. That all said, I won't claim that Wrestlemassacre's
the perfect movie, its approach is pretty blunt and at times lacking
self-awareness, and the set-up of the movie takes up too much screentime
and tries to hammer its point home not only too hard but also too often -
but once the action starts, the film really comes into its own, making it
perfect party movie material.
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