Mustang Sally's Horror House (2006)

From my favorite movies..

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The friends Josh Henderson (Mark Parrish), Mike (Erik Fellows), Luke (Garrison Koch), Toby (Sonny Marler) and Ryan (Al Santos) overhear the conversation of three bikers in a dinner place about the girls of the Mustang Sally's brothel in Malawan. Together with their friend Seamus (Sean McGene), they drive to the place to have sex. They are hosted by madam Mustang Sally (Elizabeth Daily) that introduces her sexy girls: Caressa (Lindsey Labrun), Persuasion (Tina McDowelle), Likilick (Deidre A. Cannon), Kitten (Dana Fares), Titianna (Joni Kempner) and Tushalean (Alycen Malone). Out of the blue, the great pleasure of the hot girls becomes a gore revenge. "Mustang Sally" is a silly and unbelievable story of vengeance supported by eroticism and sexy actresses. However, this campy movie is funny and entertains. I bought this DVD without any reference and despite the flawed story, I do not totally regret. Very hard to choose the most beautiful and sexy girl in the brothel. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "Mustang Sally – O Prazer da Vingança" ("Mustang Sally – The Pleasure of the Revenge")

This is the first movie I have ever ripped into, but it deserves every word of it.For director/writer/producer(he who is to blame) Iren Koster, I doubt you'll ever read this, but I'm going to lay this out as clear and concise as possible to explain what went so horribly wrong with this film.!!!(Spoilers Ahead)!!! A group of horny teenagers head to a brothel in the woods, shack up with a bevy of prostitutes and then get hunted down one by one. Sounds intriguing right! Absolutely, except for that fact that everything this movie should have had going for it, missed the mark entirely. For example...1) The Characters(Victims) - Here we have our group of horny teens looking for action, finding an untimely death. The writer's job is to make us care about whether they live or die. We don't. The problem comes from the fact that they're actually flatter than the paper the script was printed on. We get horrible forced exposition about who all of them are for nearly 45 minutes while they drive. The most bizarre aspect of the dialog is that they don't converse like men, so much as what a teenage girl would believe guys would say to each other. They either seemed to be half grunting about sex/farts/dick jokes, or having touching chats about shyness and their hopes and dreams. Half of the movie is over by the time our friends reach the titular location. But we are fortunate enough to be treated to a Jeepers Creepers 2-esque shot of the guys taking a roadside leak while standing about three inches apart from one another. Here's the breakdown. There's the leader, the Jock, The Nerd, and some other interchangeable guys. We know the jock is a jock however because he carries a football with him... IN EVERY SCENE! While dining, driving, even in the friggin' bordello! We get it. He likes football. Move on! 2) The Villains - Major issue right off the block, is that the killers are supposed to be the sympathetic characters. Seriously. We're supposed to root for them. This becomes a problem once all the cards are on the table. You see, essentially this is a Rape/revenge picture. Mustange Sally was raped twenty years prior by the fathers of this gang of lummoxes. There lies the problem. Their FATHERS were to blame. So killing off their stupid, horny, but ultimately innocent sons is hardly justice especially since they establish that their fathers are largely estranged or dead, so there does seemed to be a flaw or two in Sally's plan. More on that later.3) The Plot - As mentioned, Sally decides to off these schmucks. Revenge is a dish best served cold so she waits 20 years, creating a number of false identities. OK, Plausible. Then for her ultimate revenge she opens a brothel in the mountains(for only the scope of a few weeks mind you, which would cost a small fortune and raise a number of eyebrows, include her face getting lots of attention), she then lures the guys in, kills them and abandons the cabin.4) The Payoff - All my complaints aside, let's look solely at this area. This movie is about murderous prostitutes. The cover art will tell you that the girls kill the men off according to their fears and nightmares. LIES! At one point the jock claims he can't swim. One of the girls leads him off towards the river. I think we see where this is going. They move towards the rivers edge, and then... she hits him with a rock. Apparently they didn't have enough time scheduled to involve water in this production. In fact all of the kills are done as cheaply as possible with knives, guns, and most tragically of all with a spray painted hand scythe that someone on the crew picked up around Halloween from K-Mart. Despite this being about a bordello of death, sex really never happens, nudity is kept at extreme distances or half second flashes.5)Gaping Plot Holes - (More spoilers) Granted the premise is flimsy. I'm sure it was written quickly as something of an afterthought, but really, some of the mistakes are enormous. If our narrator is secretly Sally's son, why did they have to send in a bunch of bikers to promote this brothel when he could simply have told them about it. Why did Sally feel the need to haggle over the prices and risk running them off if she planned on killing them. And... so much more... not enough space.

I try to be very tolerant of independent films. It has to take a lot of moxie to get any film made, let alone one on a limited budget, and MUSTANG SALLY wears its limited budget like a badge of honor. It looks like it was shot at a friend's cabin over the course of a couple days by some frat boys and their girlfriends.Not that this is a bad thing. Sam Raimi showed everyone the possibilities of low budget horror (and the woods) with EVIL DEAD. But MUSTANG SALLY has none of the crazed energy of Sam's picture. In fact, it's difficult to classify it as a horror film despite its original title. There's nothing supernatural about it. There's nothing particularly bloody. Even the "sex scenes," which seem to be the main reason for this film's existence, are badly shot teases. There's no real nudity, just endless groping and rolling around. Lots of it. Sequence after sequence after sequence...and when that's not enough, the filmmakers split the screen into four segments so we can watch simultaneous rolling and groping.*SPOILERS* What's the plot? As close as I could figure, a bunch of party animal frat boys overhear some bikers talking about a local whorehouse and decide to pay it a visit. The madame of the place (EG Daily of PEEWEE'S BIG ADVENTURE fame), is only to happy for their patronage, although she looks a little drug-addled and seems to be stumbling through her appearance. The guys hook up. There's groping and rolling for a good half hour of the picture. When the novelty of filming these sequences wears off, the girls try and kill the boys. And then there's a confusing revelation in which Miss Daily reveals that she was raped by the boys' fathers, had a bunch of kids, and has enlisted the aid of the bikers for payback. Why she went to such elaborate means for this revenge scheme is beyond me. It's never explained what association she had with the bikers or why the girls were so eager to assist her in this insane enterprise. It's suggested that there's some kind of relationship -- are they her daughters? -- but EG has little remorse when some of them are killed (and the others just disappear from the plot at the denouement). Forgetting logic, because EVIL DEAD used very little and was still a classic -- here's the biggest problem: MUSTANG SALLY is either a sex film with no sex or a gore film with no gore. The "effects" are laughable. Gunshots, stabbings, gougings, are all done in cutaways. We see the after effects, but never an impact, which is unusual for this type of picture. But since there are no such distractions, this leaves us with endless dialog sequences that appear entirely improvised. Did I mention endless? All the guys speak in stilted "teen speak" that verges on the painful. The girls mumble clownishly about adolescent sexual fantasies, some of which I have to assume is intended comically, but these moments are few and far between.How does a movie like this get distributed the world over? More important, how does it pick up so many rave reviews on IMDb?

However, when someone writes scathing comments and probably has never been in a film or near a set, I think it only fair that I am allowed to offer my opinion. Firstly, yes Mustang Sally won't win any Academy Awards(c) but it's entertaining and the acting was good. I've seen - and so have you seen - many big budgeted films, as well as low budgeted films, that we didn't like. That's what makes the world go around. I enjoyed the film and yes, I'm a friend of the director but why "Playhate" and disparage when these people are getting their films made. Let's see what YOU can do. We'll be waiting. If you check the number one rated movie on IMDb, "The Godfather," you'll find over 25,000 people gave it a 1 out of 10. What does that tell you? Again, I'm not finding fault with anyone's right to their opinion, but do it honestly. I saw Mustang Sally with a room filled with people who laughed and had a good time. That's what movies are supposed to be. Entertaining! Also, E.G. Daily is one of the highest paid voice over actresses in Hollywood. Is her acting horrible? Not likely. Thanks for reading.