Scarecrow-88
While on their way to Mexico to sell "spanish fly" pills as part of a get-rich-quick-scheme, Quinn(Devon Sawa) and his best friend, Nick(Steven Schub) stop off at a strip joint, The Devil's Den, to test out their product. What Quinn doesn't expect is that the joint's top stripper(and her fellow dancers)are demons out for blood and flesh. Quinn will almost become lunch when a well equipped assassin named Caitlan(Kelly Hu), looking for someone at the Den, blasts away, startled at the fact that no matter how many rounds she fires the fugly blood-thirsty, flesh-eating demons still keep coming, seemingly unharmed by the ammunition. Quinn and Caitlan also receive assistance from Leonard(Ken Foree), armed with double barrel shotgun and sword, who knows what the things are..ghouls who sold their soul to Beelzebub. The feeding frenzy where customers are torn asunder by the monstrous ghouls who devour with relish will remind viewers, I imagine, of the Titty Twister slaughter in "From Dusk Til Dawn". Their lair is underneath the Den, a tunnel leading to it(the sets aren't the least bit convincing)and Leonard must kill the leader, their queen, and if he is successful then her reign of terror will be over. Karen Maxwell is Candy, a waitress who accompanies the trio as they temporarily barricade themselves in a dressing room as the feast commences in the club. Who Caitlan is and what her mission was is certainly surprising as it actually pertains to Quinn, but other urgent matters take precedent over this at the moment. More or less a bloody action film, pretty claustrophobic as most of "Devil's Den" is contained within the strip club with our heroes either trying to survive, fending off the hideous demons, or bickering with each other(although, the cast seem to enjoy each other). I imagine some viewers will have to adjust to Sawa's obnoxiousness, his constant whining and screeching, a teen heartthrob no longer. I love me some Hu, though, and she gets to unload rounds at, and kickbox, demons. I have no idea why she would ever find Quinn the least bit ideal a candidate as a future love interest, despite how the movie caters to such nonsense. Foree fans will eat up his role as a bad ass with a Samurai sword, slicing and dicing ghastly demon girls with ferocious appetites. Some flesh-eating, a hand ripping through a victim's chest(pulling free his beating heart and eating it), organ munching, blood splatter, and other grue goodies should satisfy gorehounds seeking human carnage. Nothing particularly memorable, that I can find, but as a Foree fan, I think his casting is enough to recommend horror fans for at least one sitting. Nice to have Jeff Burr back in the director's chair even if the movie rehashes ideas from other films, with a lower budget. I'm not a fan of Sawa in the least, but I thoroughly enjoyed Hu and Foree's casting in the movie. If anything, Burr always seemed to cast rather effectively. And, Burr uses practical effects, something this horror fan certainly appreciates, for the grue, pulling away when he has to due to his obvious budgetary constraints.
mattround11
I was looking for a horror film last night and came across this one in the video store. It surprised me because I had never heard of it. What a great find! I laughed all the way through it. The plot twists were nice, especially where I assumed something was going to happen one way because it always happens in these type of genre films, then it twists for that very same reason. A certain Japanese scene that comes out of nowhere is my favorite.Kelly Hu is hot but no where near as hot as the girl who plays Jezebel. She is smoking, and I'm surprised I haven't seen her in more stuff. Definitely got a new fan in me.Devon Sawa is funny and Ken Foree is as solid and reliable as ever, even pretty funny himself in a gruff mentorish sort of way.It's a low budget movie so I can see why I went straight to DVD but still, definitely worth the 90 or so minutes it takes to watch.Hope they make a sequel.
mrush
This is one of those movies where you wonder how anyone involved in it figured they had a good enough reason to make it.I mean if this weak mess can be a movie just about anything you could think up could be a movie too.A couple of losers stop by a strip club in the middle of nowhere to test some Spanish fly they have just smuggled in from Mexico.Then all Hell breaks loose when the strippers get hungry for some meat.I swear that is the plot.I mean Spanish fly? So at this strip club out in the middle of nowhere you get the smugglers,a government agent ,an assassin and even a Samuri swordsmen who must fight off the horde of meat seeking strippers or 'ghouls' as they were called so we'd be sure to know they weren't vampires or werewolves,like it made a difference.Yeah it sounds bad and it was.This whole movie was weak as water.The acting was terrible from most everyone except Ken Foree and even he couldn't overcome an awful script that was painfully bad most of the time.And the plot of this clunker was just horrid.The special effects consisted mainly of what looked to be generic Halloween masks and those rubber monster hands that sell for 3 bucks a pair at Big Lots.They couldn't even get the blood right--their fake blood was so dark it looked black.I mean who the hell can't get close to what blood is supposed to look like?Ken Foree,as the government agent, was wearing some of those thick joke glasses and what looked to be an oxygen cannula as his disguise.I guess whatever was laying around must have been cobbled together for the special effects.One of the smugglers looked like a young Anthony Michael Hall and talked like Corey Feldman---try watching a movie with that combo platter.Truthfully the main reason I rented this DVD was the box promised lots of nudity and even that was a ripoff.The few breasts I saw were mostly on the ghoul chicks and even those were just quick glimpses.Even on stage the dancers were dancing clothed.Yeah some strip club.I've seen some of the reviews saying this is a rip off of "From Dusk til Dawn" well it may be but "Dusk" wasn't very good either and "Dusk" itself ripped off several horror movies too.But I don't care who rips off who as long as the movie is good.This one wasn't even close to being good or even fair,it was totally a waste of time.I've saw some reviewers say that maybe this film was supposed to be quirky and funny instead of a straight horror film.Well if it is taken that way it is even a worse mess, I think, cause it sure wasn't funny in the least.Even the blooper reel wasn't funny.The actors were being yelled at whenever they blew a line like each second of wasted film was cutting into the budget and for a moment you feel some pity for the unnamed rabble of actors who work in these awful low budget pictures.They aren't much different than somebody working at McBurger getting yelled at for getting behind during the lunch rush.Silly me, and I thought a blooper reel was supposed to be funny and lighthearted.I always wonder after I see a crap fest like this who in the hell looks at a terrible script with a nonexistent plot and lousy special effects and a bunch of scene chewing actors and says " I see a movie here !" Like I said if this can be a movie any half-assed idea you can think of that involves a few rubber masks can be a movie too.
JoeB131
Sometimes, low budget B movies can be a lot of fun. This is one of those movies.The plot line is simple enough, two buddies go to a strip club where they encounter an assassin babe, a monster hunting samurai and a club full of stripper/ghouls. Who is on who's side gets a little convoluted at times, but in the end, it's a rip roaring amount of fun for this kind of movie.Kelly Hu. Not a great actress, but as an action hero, she's better than most. Certainly knows how to do martial arts. The other actors turn in fine performances... I admit, I didn't see the twist at the end were the "nice" waitress turned out to be the head monster.
