El Monstro Del Mar!, Tentacled Sea Creature Eats Australia

What if Russ Meyer had a crack at making "Humanoids From the Deep"? Yep, the 2010 Australian film "El Monstro Del Mar!" Three psychopathic babes, in which at least two are bi-sexual, traipse through the east coast, leaving bloody carnage and slit throats of male schmucks along their trail. A beautiful story of bad girls behaving badly who eventually come up against a good girl and a slimy, humongous, tentacled sea monster.

Three Goth-type vixens are on the run after murdering many men...who might have deserved their fate...or maybe not. Beretta (Nelli Scarlet) is their leader and also along for the bloody ride is her lover Snowball (Kate Watts) and Blondie (Karlie Madden). Needing to lay low for a few days, the trio end up in a coastal town in a little house next to the ocean. Living next door is Joseph (Norman Yemm), a grouchy old man in a wheelchair who yells at them a lot. The gals don bikinis and frolic in the surf, while playing loud music and partying. This drives Joseph into a rage as he insists they get out of the water. Returning home is Joseph's granddaughter, Hannah (Kyrie Nunan), a sweet and clean-cut 17 year old.

During the night Hannah is sent over to the gals' place to ask them to keep it down. They corrupt her with alcohol. Over night several fishermen are ripped apart by a tentacled sea behemoth. Uh oh...the next morning Snowball is missing. Blondie and Beretta will go look for Snowball and find the fishermen in pieces on the beach. They'll find Snowball but she didn't fare much better. Now Joseph scolds Hannah to stay out of the water. Upset at the fate of Snowball the now duo accost Hannah and Joseph with knives...and the behemoth-tentacled thing is right behind behind them.

Will the sweet Hannah and her invalid grandfather have to fear the monster more...or the psycho-Goths? What did the psycho-Goths do that brought on the creature's wrath? Is the fugitive plight of the psycho-Goths, mixed with the carnage inflicted by the behemoth a mere metaphor for Australia's misogynistic culture and the fate of strong-willed women Down Under?  Directed by Stuart Simpson, this is a gritty and prurient film exposing Australia's backwards social evolution (okay...that's stupid...but that's probably what they teach in Feminist Studies Departments at Aussie universities).