{"id":3903,"date":"2008-03-07T04:37:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2008-03-07T04:37:23","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T09:37:23","slug":"wrestlemaniac-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/07\/wrestlemaniac-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestlemaniac (El Mascarado Massacre) (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In a nutshell \u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d hurts so good. It\u2019s a stupid, moronic, and outright cheesy slasher flick and yet\u2026 I liked it. Believe it or not, \u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d has every opportunity to fall on its face. It\u2019s a little over an hour in length, it has this obnoxious yellow tint, and has some terrible acting, but the first ten minutes really do sell us on the intentions of it being nothing more than a tongue in cheek horror farce. I mean, when the primary monster is a psychotic luchador, you have to make the compromise and loosen your strings a bit, folks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d is a lot like the drunken uncle of yours during parties. While it\u2019s ultimately a fun display, you really don\u2019t take it too seriously and even occasionally spit on it. A bunch of college kids on the way to Cabo San Lucas accidentally arrive in a ghost town to be told the legend of El Mascarado by a demented old man running a gas station. You have to love how Baget squeezes in so many clich\u00e9s all in a fifteen minute interval. This allows our characters a reason to discuss El Mascarado and limply extrapolate the character of El Mascarado, an insane luchador who is now on the hunt for the inept gringos. Played by the famous (?) Rey Mysterio Sr., his name credit is just there for the street cred for Wrestling fans; in all actuality, Mysterio has only a small cameo here. The rest is done by a body double and tricky camera work based around first person perspective, and a stunt man performing the wrestling moves on the victims.<\/p>\n

Yes, El Mascarado performs wrestling moves on his victims, did you expect a knife or machete at his disposal? Mysterio only has about ten minutes of camera time combined to provide a sense of validity toward this monster\u2019s threat. This all leads into a typical hunt and chase where El Mascarado takes out these morons one by one. This all comes full circle when, yes, Baget chooses his only survivor to discover the source of El Mascarado\u2019s power (uh\u2026 his mask) which must then be taken off in\u2026 a wrestling match to the death! And in the category of “Horror defying logic”: The Final Girl proclaims she fixed the bus, the only route of escape from El Mascarado, but proceeds to hide in the bus without driving off, and stabs the monster with the keys to the bus preventing her from leaving. Gots ta love bad writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d is just unreal from start to finish. I couldn\u2019t believe that Baget committed to such hokey outrageous plot devices presuming it to be actual horror fodder. I highly doubt this will appeal to even the most understanding horror audiences. So you\u2019re probably asking questions while looking at this review and I\u2019ll just respond with: Yes, it\u2019s every bit as bad as you assume. Yes, it is an awful concept. Yes, it is brainless as all hell from start to finish. No, it\u2019s nothing like \u201cHatchet.\u201d And yes, I actually had some fun. Whether you choose to take it as a good hour helped with many beers, or as reasonably one of the worst movies of all time is up to you.Director Baget goes for a goofy tongue in cheek \u201cHatchet\u201d atmosphere and fails on every conceivable level providing a movie filled with awful acting, terrible dialogue, and an end product so unequivocally awful that\u2026 yes, it\u2019s quite good. Fans of the horror-wrestler subgenre need apply.<\/p>\n

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In a nutshell \u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d hurts so good. It\u2019s a stupid, moronic, and outright cheesy slasher flick and yet\u2026 I liked it. Believe it or not, \u201cWrestlemaniac\u201d has every opportunity to fall on its face. It\u2019s a little over an hour in length, it has this obnoxious yellow tint, and has some terrible acting, but the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[219,477,950,1008,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-slasher","tag-supernatural","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}