wrestlemaniacAlphonse is a driving a van through Mexico.  His fellow travellers are cameraman Steve, stoned Jimbo, Jimbo’s sister Debbie, her friend Dallas, and the unconscious Daisy.  Alphonse is the director and co-star of the amateur porn film they are going to make.  Jimbo had the van, which Alphonse needed, and though he doesn’t think it’s cool his sister is doing porn, he got stoned and woke up on the road.  Daisy…well she stays asleep.  And Steve, he’s a good natured guy, and Alphonse thinks that since he is of Mexican heritage he should know his way around Mexico.  Steve tells him, “I’m from Seattle.”

The gang miss their exit and find themselves driving through the middle of nowhere far from the “one freeway”.  They find an old gas station, the kind you know isn’t going to have anything you need other than a creepy local who warns you to stay away from someplace that’s on the shortcut he tells you to take.  Sure enough, the gang find themselves at the ghost town of La Sangre De Dios, which means The Blood of Christ.  As Steve informs the gang, it’s where the Mexican government exiled El Mascarado after he went crazy and began killing people in and out of the wrestling ring.


Alphonse decides the ghost town will be perfect place to film scenes for their porn film.  First rule of filmmaking:  location, location, location.  Second rule of filmmaking:  check your set for any crazed masked wrestlers who like to rip peoples’ faces off.

Two words describe this movie:  asno agradable.  There’s a certain level of fun to be had with Wrestlemaniac, but it doesn’t go full throttle exploitation Tijuana style the way it wants to.  Or the way I wanted it to.  It’s entertaining, it has some funny stuff, and interesting ideas and ambitions.  Overall, it’s a so-so gore skip through the tulips.  The town looks great though, and Rey Misterio as the crazed baddy is pretty good.  I just wished they would have done more with it.  It’s rather softcore when it should be hardcore.

2.5 out of 5
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