The "Hannibal Lecters brain... in Paris Hiltons wardrobe tag of Sexykiller made me worry that I would find it too dumb and joke-y to truly enjoy but I was wrong. Sexykiller was exactly what I needed to propel me into the last day of TIFFing in a great mood!
Bárbara (the sassy Macarena Gómez) is a sexy co-ed who studies medicine by day and murders people indiscriminately by night. Shes hated by the girls, loved by the boys and willing to kill anyone who pisses her off even slightly.
While the cops start nosing around in their search for the "Campus Killer, Bárbara is busy wooing morgue employee Tomás (César Camino), who she mistakenly believes is a kindred spirit: a killer just like her. Meanwhile, Tomás is working on an invention that might capture the final memories of the recently deceased in the hopes of catching the killer. Little does he know that his invention will do a lot more for the still-warm corpses than just extract a fleeting memory. And worse yet, little does he know that the killer is his hot new girlfriend!
The gory murders are inventive and hilariously yucky (a slow spiked heel through the temple is probably my favourite moment in the entire film) and the acting is just hammy and goofy enough. The film is campy, totally outlandish and really fun. Usually rowdy audiences bug me but with something this over the top, I got into the screams and squeals along with everyone else.
I heard someone complaining after the fact about how the film "didnt go far enough, citing specifically the lack of nudity so often seen in good sexy horror films. But as Bárbara says at the start (while carrying a classmates severed head in her bag, no less), if youre expecting a bunch of naked girls being chased by some creepy guy, youre watching the wrong film.
(Warner Brothers Pictures España)Bárbara (the sassy Macarena Gómez) is a sexy co-ed who studies medicine by day and murders people indiscriminately by night. Shes hated by the girls, loved by the boys and willing to kill anyone who pisses her off even slightly.
While the cops start nosing around in their search for the "Campus Killer, Bárbara is busy wooing morgue employee Tomás (César Camino), who she mistakenly believes is a kindred spirit: a killer just like her. Meanwhile, Tomás is working on an invention that might capture the final memories of the recently deceased in the hopes of catching the killer. Little does he know that his invention will do a lot more for the still-warm corpses than just extract a fleeting memory. And worse yet, little does he know that the killer is his hot new girlfriend!
The gory murders are inventive and hilariously yucky (a slow spiked heel through the temple is probably my favourite moment in the entire film) and the acting is just hammy and goofy enough. The film is campy, totally outlandish and really fun. Usually rowdy audiences bug me but with something this over the top, I got into the screams and squeals along with everyone else.
I heard someone complaining after the fact about how the film "didnt go far enough, citing specifically the lack of nudity so often seen in good sexy horror films. But as Bárbara says at the start (while carrying a classmates severed head in her bag, no less), if youre expecting a bunch of naked girls being chased by some creepy guy, youre watching the wrong film.
