An aspiring porn crew and their stars head out into the middle of nowhere, Mexico heading to the beach to film their first flick but end up in an old deserted town where a masked madman waits to face-off with each one of them, literally.
The story starts out on the back roads in Mexico where a group of porno star wannabes head out to film their first skin flick down in Cabo San Lucas. After a little pit stop at a shack in the middle of nowhere they meet a stranger, played by the always creepy Irwin Keyes who heads them in the right direction but warns them not to stop in a town on the road they take called 'La Sangre De Dios' claiming that it's plagued by a masked luchadore named 'El Mascardo' played by wrestling great Rey Misterio. Well as all idiots do they head to the town anyways deciding that it'd be the perfect place to film their movie, well that and not having a choice being they wreck their van on a huge ass rock along the way and end up rolling right up to the front gate of the town.
Anyway, they all set up in a bar in town and that's when all the clothes hit the floor followed by one of the girls, who had a LITTLE too much to drink on the trip. So she runs off and ends up running head to head with the man himself, 'El Mascardo'. And that's the beginning of the carnage. One by one he picks them off ripping their faces off like he would in the wrestling ring. You see as the legend goes 'El Mascardo' was this psycho luchadore wrestler that ended up killing people on the mat so he was banished to the town never to fight again. In Mexican customs the only way to defeat an opponent and completely shame him is to take off his mask. Well old 'El Mascardo' takes it one step further and being that his victims don't wear masks he rips off what they do have in their head, their friggin FACE. Can anyone stop his faceless frenzy or are all the sex crazed weaklings doomed to have their face defaced?
 
Honestly this movie might sound dumb but it's far from it. First off Rey Misterio is a damn good creepy character and although his character seems a bit cheesy, he pulls off some creepy moves that would put most muscle heads to shame. Top it off with a fairly good cast and a small group of VERY sexy women and your good to go on this joy ride of ripping and wrestling. The story is pretty solid and original which gets points on my end and it's got just enough blood and gore to satisfy but not push itself over the limit.
If you get a chance to see Wrestlemaniac definitely do it, just don't come to the plate wearing your Hulkamaniac T-shirt, he might not like that much.
An original cast and a solid story puts this movie in a high class of a new breed of horror not unlike the great slashers of the 80's. I highly recommend this movie.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: El Mascarado Massacre, The Mexican Porn Massacre
MOVIE YEAR: 2006
DIRECTOR: Jesse Baget
WRITING CREDITS: Jesse Baget
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Rey Misterio Sr., Irwin Keyes, Leyla Razzari
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 75 min
RATING: 9/10
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