Sexy Killer (2008)

.........................................................I have no idea what to say.

This Spanish film...is just completely mental. And that's not a bad thing. I initially thought this was a straight horror film, but it's actually mainly a comedy, and it's bloody (Pardon the pun) brilliant.

The film follows Barbara (Macarena Gomez), who holds a man (Who just ran over her newly acquired dog) hostage before telling him, and mainly the audience she literally talks to, her story.


The thing with this film, is that it pays tribute to so many genres and films, it creates its own piece of cinema. Films it references include 'Silence of the Lambs', 'Scream', 'Friday the 13th', 'Crocodile Dundee', and I'm pretty sure it references 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' too. This just adds to the madness that is this film. And at one point I think Barbara looks like Magenta from 'The Rocky Horror Show'.

This film does create its own dark humor, and to great effect. It's created mainly through the fantasy world which Barbara lives in, which includes a brief music video about how she wants to marry a plastic surgeon, and an commercial where Barbara explains the best way to kill someone with things you can find in the kitchen. The film is so eccentric, it's random, it's hard not to be caught up in the pace of the film.

The acting is great, it's like everyone was born to play their characters, from Cesar Camino as Tomas, Alejo Sauras as Alex, and Angel de Andres Lopez (Try saying that really fast five times) as the Inspector. Even the minor supporting characters did really well. But it's Gomez who truly makes this film watchable, not because she matches the title of the film perfectly, but because she delivers so much energy, so much passion to her role. Barbara is a psychopath who doesn't really know the difference between right and wrong, and yet Gomez makes the character sympathetic as well.

The effects, overall, are really good. For a horror-comedy it doesn't pull it's punches, if the script says a guy is going to get a hook through his chest, he's getting a hook through the chest. The deaths are elaborate and artistic, the first death involves her just happening to have the same Ghostface costume that some guy has, imitating his movements to look like a mirror reflection, before attacking him. That being said, there are some points when the effects are pretty bad. One being a blatant green screen towards the end and another being a car exploding (Though in all fairness the build-up to it was executed so brilliantly, you'll be enjoying it rather than hating it).

And then to add further insanity to this film, zombies turn up! Though the box implies the zombies are the main point of this film, they only appear within the last twenty odd minutes. Despite this the film does pay homage to previous zombie films perfectly, with the intensity and panic that a zombie film has, yet 'Sexy Killer' still retains it's own entity.


I have no idea what else I can say. but this is a bloody brilliant film. The characters are great, the actors/actresses portraying them are brilliant, the plot is fantastic, the humor is terrific, and Macarena Gomez is just perfect. I definitely recommend seeing this film, especially if you're a horror fan. This will be a great addition to your collection.