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Wrestlemaniac' (2006)
When driving through the desert to the city of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico to shoot a lesbian porn film, an amateur film director with his cast and crew manage to get lost. Asking for directions at a dilapidated petrol station, old crazy Ralph tells them to '
stay on the path and keep off the moors' and to avoid a ghost town named '
La Sangre de Dios' [the blood of God] which, legend has it, is home to an insane Mexican Lucha Libre wrestler known as 'El Mascarado' [The Masked Man]
Of course they find the town; Of course they decide to make their film there; Of course the luchador is more than a legend...
If I was 15 years old, the lure of both horror and wrestling would have been enough to drag me into this film. Sadly I am not 15, but then again there is very little horror in the film, and even less wrestling. What there is, however, is close-up after close-up after close-up of a scantily clad female botty!
There are some entertaining hybrid horror / wrestling films out there, such as 'Monster Brawl' and 'Pro Wrestlers Vs. Zombies', but 'Wrestlemaniac' is very much bottom of the barrel
Rewatch value: None. Straight back to the charity shop
As a piece of trivia, the title character is played by legendary Mexican wrestler Rey Misterio, who is the uncle of WWE wrestler Rey Mysterio