Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! is kind of like Killer Barbys Meets Saw. An all-girl punk rock band is on their way to their next gig on Halloween night. They stop at a gas station in the middle of nowhere owned by a creepy grease monkey named Dale (Richard Grieco). He knocks them out cold and tosses them into his underground lair where an unseen “Mastermind” (voiced by Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine) pits them against one another in deadly games full of heavily moralistic do-or-die situations. The booby traps and games include a gas that makes their worst fears come to life, acid in the sprinkler system, and forcing them to decide the fate of another group of people trapped in the lair.
The traps and do-or-die scenarios are rather generic, but director Jared (After School Special) Cohn handles the execution about as well as you could expect. The problem is the band members are thinly sketched and have interchangeable personalities. They all look hot though and wear an assortment of sexy punk rock outfits, so that does help take some of the sting out of it.
There was a kernel of a good idea here, but even at a relatively scant eighty-two minutes, Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! feels heavily padded. Although the scenes of greedy trick-or-treaters coming to the door and getting killed by the Mastermind’s twisted wife are kind of funny, they feel like they came out of an entirely different movie. The opening sequence featuring soldiers being captured in the Middle East also feel more like a way to pad out the running time than actual important backstory.
Halloween Pussy Trap Kill! Kill! may be a little on the uneven side, it still remains the best Saw rip-off starring Richard Grieco and Dave Mustaine you’re likely ever to find, so that is worth something at least.
No comments:
Post a Comment