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6/10
A blast!
BandSAboutMovies22 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I've spent around half my life as a pro wrestler. So when a movie comes out about a man who takes his wrestling knowledge and becomes a killer comes around, I'm going to do what i can to find it and watch it and share it with you.

Randy (Bruiser Brody lookalike Richie "The Cuban Assassin" Acevedo) is a groundskeeper who is obsessed with being a pro wrestler like his father (who is played by Nikolai Volkoff). When he decides to try out at "Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant's wrestling school, he gets treated like a green boy and goes off the deep end, wiping out anyone he can get his hands on and making a belt out of human faces to defend against all manner of scum.

This movie is packed with real wrestlers, like The Sandman and Tony Atlas as mob goons, Manny Fernandez as one of Randy's lawn technician friends, NOAH Global Tag League co-winner Rene Dupree and more.

What I loved about this movie was that all of the fights have completely worked wrestling punches and holds, yet body parts fly through the air, blood gets sprayed non-stop and people still sell damage like a comedy match.

Sure, this is a digitally shot low budget movie, but it has plenty of charm and a completely out of nowhere ending that amused me way more than I thought possible. As the dirtsheets say, ****.
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7/10
Enjoyable indie slasher with a few minor flaws
kannibalcorpsegrinder15 July 2020
Desperate for more out of life, an awkward groundskeeper decides to go through with his dreams of attending a legendary promoters' wrestling school for training, but when he gets royally humiliated and everything in his life crumbles he turns into a raving maniac killing everyone who wronged him in his life.

Overall, this was a pretty solid indie genre effort. Among it's brighter points is the fine work done here to establish the main villains' sense of righteousness regarding the reasoning for his rampage. Despite the guys' size and general believability as a killer, his friendly persona and laid-back attitude at first come across as the type of person completely against doing this type of serial killer even with the fanaticism towards professional wrestling and love of religious sermons. Their gradual influence on his life and the eventual downward spiral he goes under after having everything turn around on him and the eventual snap he undergoes as a result of the humiliation he receives as well as their warped suggestive influence on his mindset causes the eventual rampage to come off as a rather reasonable throughput. That build-up causes the resulting rampage to be a fun over-the-top cheesefest. The fact that so many of the scenes focus on wrestling matches gone awry as nobody expects him to resort to the type of brutal combat that he does allows for some fun and inventive setups featuring him taking out the various people who wronged him. After taking out the people from the wrestling school who humiliated him, the film's montage showing him just running wild on the random townspeople who get slaughtered in graphic means leading up to the crazy finale with the assault on the different criminals coming to the house for a series of wild brawls and over-the-top kills. It's all done with enough wackiness in the wrestling spots, fun indie-styled gore and general looniness with the resolution that adds a demented quality to it for better or worse, making for some enjoyable aspects with this one. There are some big flaws with this one. Its main feature is the usual tropes here of most low-budget genre efforts that run throughout here, from the useless scenes that go nowhere other than to showcase cameos from friends of the creative crew, dead-end plot points that take up way too much running time or focusing on unimportant stories. The random encounters with the various townspeople in the montage sequence could've been avoided if the humiliation sequence isn't until the halfway point in the running time by hammering into our heads their money troubles or his loser status. This is handled well in concept but the execution makes for a somewhat flawed time trying to get all the storyline points out and could've needed some condensing, and along with the abrupt ending are the films' main issues.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Full Nudity and a sex scene.
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5/10
Glorious garbage
ekwetherington22 June 2021
This movie is pure trash and never tries to be anything different. Bad jokes, gratuitous nudity, dumb wrestle fights, and over the top gore. WrestleMassacre is exactly what I was looking for.
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1/10
Wrestlemassacre More like Wrestlelamia
zatch_bell-4552121 December 2020
Who wrote this script Vince McMahon? The acting here is worse then a WWE Storyline and that is saying something as i stopped watching WWE in 2008.

For real the actors here are lame. No plot development at all The cameras used are so low quality you would think the who think was shot on a Low Quality cellphone.

To the 3 reviewers saying this movie was good you need to watch some real wrestling matches not WWE fake storylines because this movie is not even worth a 6 and above. If i could i would give it Negative 100/10
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7/10
Not Bad
regwise2 February 2021
As far as indie films go I have definitely seen worse and I don't judge indie movies the same way I would judge professional projects. The practical effects are great and Randy's character is pretty relatable. The dialogue is a bit clunky and the acting isnt the best but I enjoyed this movie. It may not be a great piece of cinema but if you want to watch a fun indie horror then this a movie for you.
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10/10
Incredibly hilarious and brutal !!!
forksinmyheart19 September 2018
This one should get a nomination for best picture! The gore is so realistic but so hilarious and the story is great too!
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