Maya, When Italians Culturally Appropriate Mexicans

We have an Italian one today.  We can call it Euro-trash as so many sultry Euro-babes, masquerading as Mexican babes, die horribly.  Sliced, diced, contorted, folded over, drowned, suspended with fishhooks, etc.  All because of a 1300 year old Mayan legend.  Mayan?  Think Aztec without the glitter.  Or think Inca without the marketing campaign. Set in Mexico, this 1989 Marcello Avallone film was filmed in Rome (also known as the Mexico City of the Mediterranean).  Let us take a peek at "Maya."

Dr. Slivak (William Berger) lives in a small Mexican town steeped deep with Mayan legend. I won't bore you with that particular legend, needless to say, Slivak seems to have penetrated the veil that separates life from death. Yawn.  Of course this is never good, and as a result a curse is unleashed on the town.  Slivak is now gone and his sultry daughter, Lisa (Mariella Valentini) arrives in town to figure out what happened to her dad. She'll meet up with Peter (Peter Phelps).  We like Peter. When we first meet him he scoops up a naked whore from his bed, throws her over his shoulder, gives her rear end a massive spank, and throws her in a cold shower.  There's a man!  Never since the Aztecs did a man give a woman what she wanted better than Peter. Peter knows a lot of babes in this town...and one by one they get mutilated, sliced, diced, contorted, hooked, etc.  You can take Italy out of Giallo, but you can't take misogyny out of it.

So where are we?  We meet Jahaira (Mariangelica Ayala).  She's a babe gas station attendant who seems to be with demon on occasion.  Two brute American who try to rape her will find this out the hard way.  We meet bar wench Laura (Mirella D'Angelo)...every guy who sees her grabs her posterior and forces themself on her...and she loves it.  So sad, her fate. Okay, never mind Maria (Vilma Ramia). She was Dr. Slivak's paramour...now she is suspended from the ceiling by fishhooks. Lisa and Peter kind of fall in love, but Peter has not slapped her around yet.  If this was "Aztec" instead on "Maya," he would have by now.  Peter and Lisa figure out a few things and realize Day of the Dead (the holiday, not movie) is coming up.  The town will celebrate this at the great Mayan pyramid and when they do...well, some evil ghost will return to do...well, do evil things.

Will Peter get everyone cheering and rip off Lisa's clothes and slap her buttocks silly?  Is this a thinly veiled metaphor of the Mayan feminism that doomed their entire tribe?  An Aztec, an Incan, and a Mayan walk into a bar...wait...this is getting too silly.  Never mind.  See "Maya" for some icky gore, sultry and sweaty Italian babes playing Mexicans, and bitingly accurate history.

When It Rains in LA, Slasher Arrives From Italy

Eric Roberts! Yes! Something about Eric Roberts, if he's in it, I wanna see it.  You guys know what I mean.  Four minutes and 52 seconds into this film, and half of that is in slow motion, he dies. Still, it was great seeing him. So who is left?  Pure babes and hunks, so we won't miss Eric too much. Even better all the babes and hunks left in this film just exude, "KILL ME WITH A BIG KNIFE!"  Yep, the big knife is also in this film and the babes and hunks will be gone through like crap through a goose.  I get it, you want to know if there is a particular plot holding all this together.  You're no fun.  Our feature today is 2025's "When It Rains in LA," directed by David M. Parks.

Nate (Roberts) is married to a babe, Sasha (Monroe Cline) who is 50 years younger than him. Hey, it's Eric Roberts...and that hair!  Eric dies suddenly when given divorce papers.  Heart attack? Sasha then flies to LA to stay with friends...the most awkward hunks and babes ever assembled, in fact, every conversation they have is uncomfortable and weird.  I'm not even going to mention the Mexican rain curse, though it will be a major part of the film, as it is in our own lives. Everyone is mad a Mark (Felix Merback).  Leese (Paris Simone) is in perpetual mourning and always comforted by lesbian sex with Tatia (Natasha Stricklin). Alice (Taylor Brianna) is all slut and may have feelings for Mark.  Oh, Anna (Leslie Stratton) was on the same plane to LA with Sasha and is a bit too interested in her.  Never mind the stewardess (LeeAnne Bauer) who also seemed a little too interested in Sasha, though she was a babe, too!

The pilot?  Harry (Tom Gipson)? Hunk.  He is also very interested in Sasha...and he will eventually get in bed with her. Okay, I know.  Plot? There is one, but I don't want to bore you with it.  While Leese and Tatia have passionate lesbian sex in the restroom of a nightclub, the slasher begins his work.  Poor Leese, no one should assume room temperature in such a humiliating fashion.  Good toilet seat deaths are few and far between.  The slasher continues...he kills so many babes and hunks...and finds Sasha and Harry in bed together.  Hey, this is a lot more coherent than Richard Attenborough's 1993 bore-a-thon "Shadowlands." 

Who is the slasher?  Was Eric Roberts' death from natural causes?  Marketing herself as a top influencer, should Paris Simone really allowed herself to be killed off on a toilet seat?  Sure, it worked for Elvis, but Paris Simone is no Elvis! This last question is one we should all ask ourselves.  For some great fun, a high kill count, and a lot of hunks and babes in peril, see "When It Rains in LA"  Just don't ask too many questions about the Mexican rain curse.

Popeye's Revenge, Our Favorite Sailor Man Shreds Hunks and Babes

Steven Murphy's portrayal of Popeye is quite different than the one done by Robin Williams.  I will say, this 2025 Popeye interpretation is stacked with some sultry bikini babes and hunks with six-pack abs...all will die horribly.  But wait!  Yep, Olive Oyl (Kelly Rian Sanson) is also in this one...and she's as psycho as Popeye. Did we ask for another Popeye film?  No. But, we did ask for another horror film with babes in bikinis having sex in hot tubs and then dying in those same hot tubs by the hands of a lunatic and his GF.  Or, I think we were asking for that. Our feature today is "Popeye's Revenge," directed by William Steed.

As the film begins a backstory will be delivered through crude animation.  The tale is fraught with madness, slaughter, and twisted love, but it sets out Popeye and Olive Oyl as psychos looking to murder anyone that enters the house in which they were imprisoned and tortured in as children. Tara (Emily Mogilner) is a babe who wants to do a good deed.  I know, these always work out so well in these movies.  She assembles her BF, the hunk Dylan (Connor Powles), her bestie, the babe Donna (Danielle Ronald), the hunk Nick (Bruno Cryan), the most sultry babe ever to appear in a movie from England, Kathy (Karolina Ugrenyuk), and the big-boobed Sky (Atlanta Moreno)...oh, Max (Fyn Phoenixx). They enter the house in order to restore it and turn it into a haunted house attraction.  what could go wrong?

Right, Popeye and Olive.  The fog rolls in and so does the dastardly duo. Popeye begins picking the babes and hunks off one by one. Sky has a gratuitous bikini and skinny dip scene in the hot tub which Popeye will end in bloody fashion.  Poor Sky, she is the first.  So sad, this film will have an astronomical death count.  We want Kathy to survive because her in that leopard print bikini may be the most impressive thing coming out of the U.K. since Kate Beckinsale. I know, you can guess her fate.  Popeye kills by ripping out spines, running lawn mowers over babes, popping out eyeballs crushing heads, and castrating with anchors. With Olive Oyl at his side he goes through hunks and babes like crap through a goose.  Where does this all lead?  You'll see, but this film is largely a gratuitous platform for some nice cheese and beef in peril.

Will Tara be a final girl, and if so why?  Is there any way possible that Kathy in her leopard print bikini survives this onslaught?  I know, stupid question.  Will Olive Oyl and any of the bikini babes engage in a catfight to the death?  The kills are imaginative and gory and there are a lot of them.  For a gratuitous dive into prurience and bloody slaughter, see "Popeye's Revenge." 

Breaking the Girls, Hitchcock Does Lipstick Lesbianism

Yep, Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train" was not quite the film he wanted to make. Nope!  Sir Alfred Hitchcock had a more deviant plot in mind. Nubile babes swapping spit with one another, feeling each other up, undressing one another, eating one another, and then doing the same to more sultry babes. Yep, today we have the film Hitchcock wanted to make but for prudish censors.  It is sort of a combo between "Wild Things" and that Hitchcockian classic. Gratuitous and steamy, there will be no shortage of babes, scantily clad, sucking face and making passion with one another. Detect a theme? Our feature today is 2012's "Breaking the Girls," directed by Jamie Babbit.

Sara (Agnes Bruckner), a graduate student, falls on tough times. Then she meets rich Alex (Madeline Zima). Alex seduces Sara and the babes fall in love. All sorts of steamy sex follow. Alex, though rich has a problem. Her former lover, Nina (Kate Levering) dumped her to marry her dad. Right!  Alex' former lesbian lover is now her stepmom.  Only five years difference in age. Sara has a problem. The lovely Brooke (Shanna Collins) , is a classmate that is jealous of her because Sara is also swapping fluids with Eric (Shawn Ashmore), and Brooke wants Eric. See the problem? The unhinged Alex has an idea, and in lesbian passion and not very seriously Sara agrees to the plan. A perfect murder. Sara will kill Nina, thus allowing Alex to be the sole heiress to the family fortune...and Alex will kill Brooke.

Sara did not think Alex was serious...ha!  Yep, Brooke dies in a drowning and pummeling accident.  Alex is now blackmailing Sara to kill Nina.  What follows?  Sara and Alex lesbian passion.  Alex on Nina lesbian passion.  I know what you're thinking...will there be Sara lesbian passion on Nina? The sex between Alex and Sara is well choreographed and is half this film.  In the pool.  In the bed.  In front of Eric.  Wherever!  Uh oh...more murders, and not just babes.

Will Sara agree to murder Nina?  Will Nina and Sara become lovers?  Will there be a nice threesome before this film ends?  Don't kid yourself, this movie works as a gratuitous lesbian sex show.  The twists are predicable and numerous.  To give Ms. Bruckner, Ms. Zima, and Ms. Levering credit they do their roles very well and are very pleasing to the camera.  For some gratuitous smut masquerading as a Hitchcock classic, see "Breaking the Girls." 

Croc! Bride vs. Crocodile

A sultry bride, beautiful bridesmaids, and worthless groomsmen and groom versus a croc!  Even better... this takes place in Hampshire in England. Even better,  Chrissie Wunna (one of this blog's favorite actresses) is one of the bridesmaids.  Her false eyelashes and cleavage will prove a worthy opponent for the misplaced reptile. In, what I believe is Miss Wunna's finest film, the death count will be astronomical, gore will be terrific, and cheese factor maximized.  Our feature today is 2022's "Croc!"  Directed by Paul W. Franklin, this is a film made by Jagged Edge Productions.

Dylan (Mark Haldor) a middle-aged hunk and father of the bride arrives to scout out a country estate where his daughter will be married.  Lame chore for a real man, he takes the occasion to bang the snot out of the wedding coordinator.  I mean, he gives it to her.  Her screams will be guttural and he will give her punishment that her nymphomaniac side will crave and remember forever. Anyway, this scene has little to do with the film but is appreciated. Okay, don't ask why, a 25-foot croc eats two campers in the pond by the estate.  Lisa (Sian Altman) and her bridesmaids arrive the day before the wedding. Vanessa (Wunna) is her best looking bridesmaid, and is Lisa's boss.  Amy (Antonia Whillans) is also a babe, is Lisa's bestie.  Others will be there but they'll be eaten quickly...like Georgie (Beatrice Fletcher).

Beatrice? Babe. Her and the groom to be Charlie (George Nettleton) sneak away for pre-marital sex. These two betrayers of Lisa will get a morality check when Beatrice is eaten and Charlie runs away with a secret he can never tell.  Now the day of the wedding, Dylan goes to look for Beatrice and finds the croc instead.  The croc almost gets Dylan, who has managed to start a nice fling with Vanessa, but heads to the wedding instead.  The big reptile will eat bridesmaids, the grooms parents, and chase all the others to the big manor house or pool house,  There, it will work on trying to outsmart the humans which will not be hard, at least for the groomsmen and groom.  The ladies and Dylan begin planning an assault on the reptile. Vanessa and Dylan grow closer.  Lisa seems perpetually annoyed at Charlie even though she does not yet know of his betrayal. Amy, the nubile blonde, well, she looks good.  All the babes will go to war against the creature clad in a bridal gown or nice bridesmaid attire.

Will Charlie, the two-timing groom get eaten by the croc?  Will the croc get all the bridesmaids?  Will Vanessa and Dylan end up being the bride and groom before the movie ends...or will they get eaten? With a great kill count and a large cheese factor, this is a must see film.  Chrissie Wunna will captivate you guys and you may miss the croc because of her eyelashes and cleavage.  See "Croc!"  

Basement Jack, A Neo-Slasher Classic

A true slasher film!  The plot is pulled right out of the 1980s.  What we will look at today is one of the finest slasher films of the last quarter of a century.  A great cast with a sultry final girl, tons of gore, an enormous death count, nudity, gratuitous pre-marital sex, etc. Oh, Tiffany Shepis is in this as a nice looking policewoman.  Our feature today is 2009's "Basement Jack," directed by Michael Shelton. 

Growing up, Jack (Eric peter-Kaiser) was sexually abused, tortured, brainwashed, and electrocuted by his sadistic mom (Lynn Lowry). He grows up to be a vicious serial killer who breaks into basements, lives there for a time, them murders the families who live upstairs. One night he murders the Cook family except for the nymphomaniac daughter Karen (Michele Morrow). The two will fight, wound each other, and the babe will barely survive and Jack will be arrested, sent to an asylum, and eventually get out. 10 years later, Jack's back doing his thing, murdering families and eluding capture. Now he's followed by a spiteful Karen who wants to murder him. She follows him to Downer's Grove where Jack begins murdering families and nubile nymphos. The PD there at first believes Karen is the killer, but the murders continue even after she is locked up. Now dweeb cop, Watts (Sam Skoryna), is her ally and the two are now a duo.

Jack keeps killing.  He kills hunks and babes in the throes of passion, young good looking families, and dozens more with his trusted machete.  Karen is a Jack expert and is able to figure out where he is and who he will strike next.  She'll even battle Jack, but again, to draws. Sadly, the Downer's Grove PD, with Lucille as a policewoman (Shepis) will not fare well.  Neither Karen nor Watts will remain unscathed, but their determination might just bring Jack's reign of terror to an end...but then again, this is a film highly reminiscent of 80's slasher flicks.

Will the babe Karen and the psycho-Jack engage in anything other than a machete duel?  Will Watts avenge the fate of his police department? Is Jack one of those psycho/slashers that just cannot be killed?  This is a good one, and for those of you who love gore, high death counts, intestines leaking out of babes, or blood covered nymphomaniacs, see "Basement Jack" before Senator Mike Lee's bill becomes law.

Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun, Psycho-Babe, Ghosts, and Peyote

Psychedelic to the max! Hallucinatory, like a bad trip!  This film was purportedly made in 1972 and never released because of the arrest of the moviemaker...until 30 years later.  Good story, but fiction.  This 2005 film is made in the style that it really looks like a 1972 film.  Babes behaving badly, drugs abound, murder aplenty, and eventually a lot of gore...today we look at "Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun," directed by Vin Crease.

The sultry Jennifer (Cheryl Dent) is a porn actress that goes bananas while being boinked from behind during the shooting of one of these adult films. After almost murdering her "co-star" (Pancho Moler), she is sent to an asylum for the criminally insane.  Against better judgment, Jennifer is released after six months.  On her way home she is found by a group of hippies led by the polio-stricken Damon (Crease).  Also in the hippie cult are three sultry lesbians, Sabbath (Heather J. Adams), Guilty Karma (Ryan Rogoff), and Violence (Michele Morrow). Jennifer's first night with her new friends sees her doing peyote with them.  The hallucinations start and awful memories return.  Can you guess where this is going?

Jennifer starts remembering her sister who died when she was a little girl.  A drowning accident...or did Jennifer murder her? The hippies do what hippies do and drugs are dealt like playing cards and soon one by one they will be gutted and ripped apart.  Jennifer insists she is not the killer, then again, what do you expect her to say.  When Sabbath is killed, Guilty and Violence suggest a seance...like that's going to be productive.  The hippie clan decreases and Jennifer is the number one suspect.  What follows are more hallucinogenic trips, bad dreams, ghosts, specters with  ominous warnings, and more gore.

Is Jennifer the killer?  Is it ever a good idea to adopt a porn star who is criminally insane into your club? I'm asking for a friend.  Can people tripping on peyote and acid ever see real ghosts?  Weird, psychedelic, and gory, this film has a nice cheese factor and a huge death count.  For something a little different, see "Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun."