Director: Rob Zombie
Writer: Joe Ekers, Tom Papa
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Danny Trejo, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig
The story follows the adventures of El Superbeasto, a washed-up Mexican luchador, and his sultry sidekick and sister Suzi-X as they confront an evil villain by the name of Dr. Satan. The adventure, set in the mythic world of Monsterland, also has a character named Murray the robot.
What's good on paper (this is based on an original Rob Zombie penned comic) doesn't always transfer to features. Mr Zombie gets all his old mainstays in on the act but sadly Haunted World of El Superbeasto doesn't really work. For starters it doesn't really have a flowing story its more a series of segments joined together in the hope it'll amuse the cult movie crowd. Zombie knows his horror so pretty obviously Its packed with horror in-jokes, its fun to see characters like Nicholsons The Shinning & The Fly turn up. The downside is it tries to be hip, retro & sexy like a Ralph Bakshi film only it comes across as just crude, maybe throwing in tits if a live action movie blows helps, but repeatedly doing in an animation just gets dull quick. It may of worked better cut up into 20 minute Adult Swim styled cartoons, and even though I didn't really enjoy the main character of El Superheat I loved the teen nazi loving Suzi X.
(4½ out of 10)
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