I am not sure why I had high hopes for the Glen Danzig film. I should know he is not going to be Rob Zombie by a long shot. His videos alone should have conveyed this. His videos however are a lot better than this movie. I liked the comic books. The sexploitation horror elements in the comics is what this movie appeared to promise. The trailer looked good. The 30 seconds of the trailer cobbles together the 30 second of most presentable footage.Where the go me is if you promise me sex and horror violence I am there. It was a poor attempt at this, I could have written better before my first cup of coffee. Low budget I can live with as along as it is given some stylistic nuance and works with the budget to the best of it's ability. This move aside from the scene in the movie theater looks like it was all shot at Danzig's house. There are moments of awkward silence that bring out how badly the dialogue was recorded.
Split into 3 stories, one of the oddest thing about the film is how it tries to set them all in France. This leads many bad French accents. Ashley Wisdom who stars in the first about a spider thing for a dream realm, has had so much plastic surgery that she doesn't need any make up to look like a weird being with eyes for nipples. This odd feature is never explained, but that despite her prodigiou implants she doesn't want her shirt taken off so they are not revealed, but off course they are. The story line to this one feels like a rip off of Hell Raiser, but is the most entertaining of the three as they get worse. It's followed by one where a girl likes to cut off faces. She preys on strippers. This is where I noticed there are more attractive women cast in smaller roles. I get they should be case in regards to the roles they are suited for based upong acting ability, but no one has any acting ability, so if you are going to make me watch bad acting at least have the most visually pleasing people do it. This is porn level acting. Oh wait they are all porn stars. Of these the host played by Kayden Kross is the best.
The medevil set in the last one that is based of Countess Bathory is most visually workable. It also is not shot in Danzig's house . At least not his one in LA, he could have a castle in England some where. After what he charged for Misfits reunion shows I am sure he could afford it. The acting in this one is the worst of the 3 though the costumes are the best. Every time they get something right here something else goes wrong. The erotic blood bath scene is the most poorly directed thing I have ever watched. So as a director, Danzig, should focus on well, getting his voice back and not touching a camera again. I feel foolish for hoping this was going to be good, it's the worst piece of film I have seen in some time , unless we are countin porn, oh wait we are,. You can ot argue well this just isn't you thing as I am 100 percent the demographic this movie was shooting for since sex with iolence is my jam , it justfailed on every level.
