Released | Jan 16th, 2018 |
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Running Time | 155 Min. |
Director | Dick Bush |
Company | Digital Playground |
Distribution Company | Pulse Distribution |
DVD Extra | Still Gallery(ies) |
Cast | Liza Del Sierra, Danny D, Nacho Vidal, Natalia Starr, Alyssa Divine, Luke Hardy, Ricky Stone, Carla Pryce, Felix Jones |
Critical Rating | AAAA |
Genres | Comedy, Foreign Feature, Action/Thriller |
A Ghostbusters-like humorous episodic pastiche of supernatural-based comedy.
A rend in the portal to supernatural villain haven NeverMore has let bad guys loose in contemporary Britain. The Sister Breeders, for example, want to find a virgin to breed an Ultimate Messiah. Natalia Starr and Carla Pryce are assigned to stop this from happening by mysterious dungeon-based boss Alyssa Divine.
Pryce is a ghost who can hop into other people's bodies, a handy attribute when faced with a surly security guard, and they find a virgin (Felix Jones) held captive for breeding and render him obsolete for the Sister Breeders' purposes. (The trope of villains announcing their plans and strutting off triumphantly without executing them still has some mileage left in it.) And when the head Sister Breeder gets mightily pissed off about it, Pryce hops into her body and tells her minions to stand down.
Following that, scientist Danny D is studying matters of life and death, and is perfectly willing to overlook the devil horns sprouting from succubus Liza Del Sierra's forehead in order to fuck her weak enough for Starr to send her back to NeverMore.
Starr is somewhat troubled by the deep masculine command voice that comes out of her in times of conflict, and Divine hedges when Starr asks about it. Divine sends Starr and Pryce to stop soul collector Ricky Stone, and Starr gets the soul collector's wife to kill her—temporarily—so she and Pryce can fuck him into accepting his death. Starr jumps back to the living just in time to stop the wife from burying her lifeless body, but gets captured by Luke Hardy, another bad guy who's powerful enough to be impervious to the command voice. Fortunately, Pryce has hopped into Danny D, who frees Starr from shackles and then—with Nacho Vidal's help—persuades Divine to help Starr with her mission. Danny D informs Starr that she has to "achieve mutual ecstasy" with Hardy to defeat him. A jokey finale, with Divine revealing her identity and getting her just desserts, ends things on an up note.
Snarky dialogue—at one point Starr refers to what's happening as "you know, your basic universe-ending-world-destruction extravaganza" and Danny D responds, "Sounds like a season finale"—and high production values with perfectly integrated special effects add value. Recommended.