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Mustang Sally's Horror House

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Mustang Sally (Iren Koster, 2006)

I watched this movie a couple of days ago, and have been letting it marinate in my head since then, trying to figure out how many different ways I can describe how horrendous it is without repeating myself. I'm a big fan of bad horror movies, and therefore, I see a large number of things I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. So far in 2009, Mustang Sally outdoes them all for sheer, unadulterated crappiness.

A great deal of this has to do with the fact that this is a movie that, for most of its length, can't seem to figure out whether it wants to be a slasher movie or a softcore movie. It obviously takes as its spiritual ancestor rape-revenge flicks like I Spit on Your Grave, but one of the things about such movies that made them marginally bearable was that any sexual content in them was expressly filmed to be as far from erotic as possible given the expanses of naked flesh on the screen. Mustang Sally is far more interested in making sure we're titillated by these girls. But wait, I'm getting well ahead of myself.

After a confusing (until the end) opening, we start to get some semblance of a plot when six guys--layabout Josh (Mark Parrish from Home of the Brave), geek Seamus (Sean McGene in his first film role), jock Toby (Sonny Marler in his first acting role), boy next door Ryan (Al Santos from Jeepers Creepers II), and Mike (Erik Fellows) and Luke (Cutting Room's Garrison Koch), for whom I don't feel like coming up with adjectives, are hanging out in a local diner when they overhear three bikers talking about a new brothel in town, Mustang Sally's, and how hot the women are up there. They decide they need to get in on the action, and when they get there, it seems custom-made for them; Sally herself (Better Off Dead...'s E. G. Daily) runs a stable of, just coincidentally, six girls. And yep, you guessed it, they're all easily summed up by adjectives as well. I'll refrain, however. They all pair off, and everything seems fine, except that opening scene lets us know that things are not at all as they seem.

For the first three-quarters of this movie, however, things are just as they seem, and that's the huge problem here. If you're going to make a horror film, one quick flash presaging violence and a couple of fumbled attempts at foreshadowing do not a horror movie (or even a bad slasher film) make. If you're going to make a softcore movie, you probably shouldn't be foreshadowing death and destruction. If you want to make a mix of the two, it needs to be much better blended than this. I actually liked Succubus better, and that's saying something. (half)

This is one of those crazy movies you have to be in the mood to see....so if you just want to watch a scary flick where you and friends can also laugh at the same time because of the craziness, then this is it, but not if you're looking for it to be a serious horror movie, it's all just fun!

A woman gets raped. And gets revenge in a very unexpected way. The WHOLE movie has to be watched to figure this one out. I liked it. Bad acting however.

Done for a low bodget. We find a few friends who decide to go to a brothel only to find out that the woman who runs it has revenge on her mind, because the father's of the friends left her for dead several years before. Therefore, she takes out revenge on the off-spring of the men who left her for dead.

Well, I got this some time ago and remember watching it. Its your typical kind of revenge movie, well done in that sense, but somehow it has a kind of early 80s feel to it. The acting is good and solid, although I didn't know any of the people in it, which is a good thing, since I like to see new faces, not always the same actors doing their thing.
Anyways, if you like thrillers and movies with suspense, then this is certainly not a bad choice, worth seeing at least once. But then again, its nothing special. And for some reason it just has that 80s feeling to it for me.