“It’s a homicidal confectionery treat.” 

Here’s the thing. Would you go out and purchase a movie called Gingerdeadman? Would you then think, “I think I’ll watch the third installment of this amazing series!” Probably not, but I did, and you know what? I’m fucking glad I did!

At the Scientific Institute for the study of homicidal baked goods (You did read that right) The Gingerdeadman is imprisoned for his heinous crimes (committed in Gingerdeadman 1 & 2 if you hadn’t guessed) along with other homicidal confectionary. A young FBI agent visits the Gingerdeadman and we get a fantastic send up of the iconic Jodie Foster/Antony Hopkins prison scene from silence of the Lambs. After some misguided animal rights activists make the mistake of bursting in and freeing the evil baked goods, the Gingerdeadman finds his way to the Time Travel division of the institute (bear with me here!) and travels through time to the year 1979…

Beamed into a roller disco, a sub plot unravels that, to be honest, is your standard 80s style “raise the cash to save the roller rink/community centre/grandma’s house” situations. The Gingerdeadman doesn’t give a shit about this and just wants the killing to start.

We get some pretty decent gory deaths from here; a nail gun, a vat of acid (which just happens to be sitting in the car park), a butchers knife and a handgun all add some splatter to the mix. There’s also some gratuitous sex and a great porky’s glory hole homage chucked in for a few giggles.

If you think what I’ve described so far doesn’t make sense, just wait for Adolf Hitler, Charles Manson and friends to show up, just to prove they’re not such bad guys after all.

I’d say Gingerdeadman 3 might be one to watch after you’ve exhausted your other options. It had a few laughs, and a few good kills. I’ll be honest in saying there really isn’t enough to fill the 80-minute running time and keep the viewer hooked. A few good characters pop up along with the Gingerdeadman, but there is a lot of fodder introduced, then quickly killed off.

I would imagine this would be a lot more fun for the stoners out there!

Wrestling AND horror? I’m in!

Wrestlemaniac is the gory B-movie slasher story of Alphonse and his low budget porn cast and crew, as they visit Mexico to shoot their next porn flick. After getting lost, the group stumbles across a disused petrol station in search of directions and petrol (gas if you’re American!). A weird stranger emerges and gives them directions to the closest town. He warns them about ‘La Sangre de Dios’ a ghost town they must pass on their journey and not to stop under any circumstances as it is the stomping ground of the former professional wrestler gone psychopath; El Mascarado! Alphonse decides he knows better and that Le Sangre de Dios is the perfect location for their porn shoot…bad choice!

After starting their shoot, the group starts to get picked off one by one in gory fashion. El Mascarada does what any good ‘bad guy’ wrestler would do and removes their masks, by which I mean, he tears their faces off!

Wrestlemaniac follows the good old tried and tested slasher flick formula; a group of sex mad, drug fuelled teens stuck in the middle of nowhere getting picked off one by one. The big difference is the removal of a crazed monstrous killer, and putting in a smallish Mexican wrestler who probably could rip off someone’s face with his bare hands.

There are some great comedy moments in Wrestlemaniac. Clothes being torn off already scantily clad women, camera focus on said women’s bums during chases and one girl running full pelt in a pair of stripper heels. Now that was impressive! There’s also a nice nod to Friday the 13^th with one of the shops in the ghost town being called Voorhees.

I thought Wrestlemaniac was great. A silly plot, a fantastic villain and some pretty gruesome moments. I’d recommend sitting down with a few mates and a load of beers to witness the madness of El Mascarado!