The Women Eaters! is the latest cinematic concoction from W.A.V.E. Productions. It also happens to be their first new film which utilizes AI. (They had previously used AI to touch up a special edition of Witchfinder.) Now, I am vehemently anti-AI, but when I heard W.A.V.E. was now using it to make movies… well… I mean. I had to see THAT.
It did not disappoint. One minute into the thing and I was already laughing my ass off. Director Gary Whitson knows if you’re going to go AI, you’ve got to bring the WTF.
Big Pharma is perfecting a drug to reverse menopause. The secret ingredient lies in giant worms from Africa that only feed on estrogen. Because of that, they only eat women. Well, wouldn’t you know it? A worm escapes from the lab and goes around eating women.
First, it’s a gal hiking in the woods. Then, it gets Tina Krause after she’s just gotten out of the shower. After that, a hunter tries to use a woman as bait for the monster, but it doesn’t go as planned. Next, it attacks Debbie D. while she’s birdwatching. That’s followed by another woman being eaten right after a shower. The worm gets the next victim right where it counts. Finally, it comes after Laura Giglio, but not before she does some jumping jacks in slow motion without the benefit of a bra.
Whitson doesn’t go overboard with the AI as he uses it for maybe a quarter of the time. The stuff without the newfangled tech feels very much like an old school W.A.V.E. production, but with a bad CGI worm. The AI scenes are something else though. I don’t think it made me an advocate for the technology. However, it sort of fits the W.A.V.E. aesthetic better than you might expect. Let me put it to you this way: I don’t think I want to see a big budget Hollywood movie using AI. I would on the other hand love to see more low budget AI bondage fetish horror movies.
The scenes that are purely AI made my jaw drop. Imagine if Neil Breen made a power point about killer worms and you have some idea of the lunacy we have here. Also, this movie is historic in that it features the first AI death by quicksand. If you’re a fan of W.A.V.E., then you probably already know how integral quicksand is to their formula. This W.A.V.E. fan in particular was a happy camper.
Yes, even with a running time of only forty-seven minutes, it’s still too long. Yes, some of the kills are repetitive. (The worm always seems to leave its victims cut in half like a magician’s assistant.) That said, when those magic moments of W.A.V.E.-coded weirdness hit, it’s a fresh blast of cinematic insanity.
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