Jaqueline (Sam Fox) kills her husband, who may or may not have deserved it. Haunted by strange dreams, she runs off to a den of inequity called Wowzers ran by the strange Mr. Dimms (Sam Ball) who openly complains about his inability to cum. When Jaqueline meets another lost soul named Kayla (Sarah Jo Marson), they decide to run away together. That is, until the mysterious proprietor offers to give her the answers she’s been so desperately seeking.
Visually, Wowsers is a lot of fun to look at. There are shots and scenes here that might remind you of David Lynch, Terrence Malick or Jonathan Glazer. Some sequences feel completely alien, yet eerily familiar. Imagine if Mulholland Drive and Cafe Flesh had a mutant baby, and that only halfway describes it.
That last paragraph may have you chomping at the bit to see Wowzers but be warned. It ain’t all that great. Since it’s only thirty-eight minutes long, it’s hard to get your bearings or have time enough to figure out what it all means. (Or if it means anything, really.) The dream sequences take up a lot of the running time and they alternate between pointlessly arty and frustratingly vague. Granted, there is some memorable imagery here (like the sexy nun dominatrix), but writer/director Ace Thor’s script is much too flimsy to support his admittedly interesting visuals. Ultimately, it’s much too abstract to be satisfying as a narrative, and too thin to really be “about” anything in particular.
Fox is pretty good in the lead and looks great in a skintight latex catsuit. If only her character had more to go on, we might’ve been able to see what she was really capable of as an actress. Marson also makes quite a impression in her short amount of screen time. Maybe next time out, they’ll both land a vehicle worthy of their talents.
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