Sexykiller, morirás por ella (2008)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Miguel Martí

Writer:

Paco Cabezas (writer)

Release Date:

10 October 2008 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Macarena Gómez	...	Bárbara / Sexykiller
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Javier Ambrossi	...	Jaime
Ángel de Andrés López	...	Inspector (as Angel de Andrés)
Jimmy Barnatán	...	Chico jardín
Carolina Bona	...	María
Javier Botet	...	Zombie
César Camino	...	Tomás
Nadia Casado	...	Clara
Andreu Castro	...	Edu
Alberto Chaves	...	Chico Smoking / Caracuero
Dámaso Conde	...	Reportero TV
Juan Díaz	...	Jesús
Víctor Duplá
Luciano Federico	...	Comisario jefe
Lucas Fuica
Maria Lanau	...	Mujer de rojo
Ramón Langa	...	Decano
Paco León	...	Cameo víctima coche
Pablo Pinedo	...	350 pounds zombi
Octavi Pujades	...	Autoestopista
Fernando Ramallo	...	Ángel
Álvaro Ramos	...	Chico muerte
Diego Romaña Garcia	...	Boy with frisbie
Alejo Sauras	...	Álex
David Tenreiro	...	Santiago
Juan Carlos Vellido	...	Profesor Anatomía
Eloi Yebra	...	Chico jardín

Also Known As:

Barbykiller, morirás por ella (Spain) (working title)
Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her (International: English title) (subtitle)

Runtime:

Canada:100 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Spain:18 | Hong Kong:III (Hong Kong International Film Festival)

Filming Locations:

Comillas, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Company:

Ensueño Films

This girl is pretty kinky. This girl's a super-freak!

This movie materializes the ultimate definition of a crowd-pleaser. I watched "Sexy Killer" in a practically sold-out theater at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival and the whole audience literally went out of their minds with enthusiasm and delirium. This is a pleasantly deranged, no-barrels-held, unscrupulous and 100% original miscellany of bloody horror and vulgar comedy; easily the most flamboyant movie of its type of the last 10 years or so. Many movies ambitiously try to mix horror and comedy ingredients but miserably fail, whereas "Sexy Killer" succeeds without seemingly too much efforts. I won't claim all gags and comical references are equally triumphant, but generally speaking this Spanish movie from director Miguel Martí ("Fin de Curso") and writer Paco Cabezas ("The Appeared") is a genuine winner and I hope it will find popularity and distribution outside of the Festival circuit as well. The main trump of the film is undoubtedly lead actress Macarena Gómez and her unique depiction of the eccentric yet lovable protagonist character Barbara. She's a medical student with the vanity and obnoxious ego of Paris Hilton and the homicidal tendencies of Ted Bundy. Barbara addresses to the camera and explains in great detail how she commits the murders and why (kind of like in "Man Bites Dog" but even sillier) and she considers herself to be a very normal twenty-something girl with normal needs and desires. She doesn't even need to cover up her serial killing crimes, because who would ever suspect a cute, fragile and cherubic looking student like her? But then our serial killer queen falls in love, and her brainiac-boyfriend just invented a device that brings all of Barbara's murder victims back to life as vengeful zombies. Will she be stolid enough to kill them all again and live happily ever with her boyfriend? Miguel Martí and Paco Cabezas are obviously two completely horror-obsessed geeks, as they processed a massive number of tributes, inside jokes and references towards several classics of the genre into their screenplay. The fact they couldn't decide to make a serial killer movie or a zombie flick and then simply combined the two themes into one demented movie should already say enough about their devotion to the world of horror. "Sexy Killer" is an unceasingly entertaining movie, with colorful characters and typical horror clichés that are deliberately magnified to emphasize the comedic effect. There's the stalk-and-slaughter scene at the girls' locker room at the beginning (with a fantastic twist), the zombie resurrecting sequence at the morgue, the fraternity house party turning into a bloodbath near the end and much, much more! The gore effects are explicit, the sleaze is gratuitous and the humor is often crude and tasteless, but yet this movie remains accessible and hilarious at all times. See this film, if possible with friends and a truckload of alcohol and you will have a guaranteed blast.