Bloody Mallory

If you like over-the-top horror farces, this may be your movie! The acting and direction are surprisingly good. If you take your Buffy genre too seriously, you'll hate it.

A female agent (Bloody Mallory), from a secret French ministry charged with monitoring evil supernatural beings (mais bien sûr) heads off in her accessorized pink Hearse to rescue the Pope from flesh-eating ghoul kidnappers. She is joined by her sidekicks, a "flawless" foul-mouthed American transvestite (Vena Cava) and a telepathic mute girl (Talking Tina) in an action-packed romp in the underworld.

If you follow French comedy farces, like the Eric and Ramzy films, you know that the best part is finding all of the "homages" to other movies and popular culture. These include the Exorcist, Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Indiana Jones, Duran Duran, The Three Stooges and many more (in both French and English).

Bloody Mallory is an intentionally campy flick in the mold of Dead Alive and Army of Darkness. Although it's not nearly as good as either of those films, it does deserve some credit. Where else can you see a blood-spattered bride team up with a priest, a mute telepathic little girl, and a 7-foot tall French-American drag queen? Nowhere I tell you. Did I mention they're on a mission to rescue the Pope? People keep comparing this film to Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I see more comparisons to Matthew Blackheart: Monster Smasher. They are both extremely colorful, oddly humorous, and set up for sequels. If you like horror-comedies with their tongue firmly planted in its cheek, check out Bloody Mallory. You could do a lot worse.

Note for genre buffs: Valentina Vargas, who played Lady Valentine, was also the sexy Cenobite, Angelique, in Hellraiser: Bloodline.

Probably not. But while I was watching this movie, I was thinking that she may be just that. She has an incredibly beautiful face (she reminded me a bit of Kristy Swanson, the original "Buffy" - coincidence?), a magnificent, toned, fit body, lovely red hair, a hip hairstyle, an irreverent attitude, and she handles her fight scenes competently. She's far and away the best reason to see "Bloody Mallory" - the rest is sometimes fun but mostly silly stuff. The mythology presented in this movie is actually quite interesting, but the script seems to be inventing and changing its rules as it goes along, and it often gets overly silly (ghouls that get into karate fights, talking bats, etc.). The film also suffers from an overuse of CGI, and the monster effects are rather cheesy. It all ends with the setup for a sequel, but so far one has not materialized and chances are it never will. (**)

In BLOODY MALLORY, those pesky demons are once again out to destroy mankind. Now, it's up to Mallory (Olivia Bonamy) and her team of demon hunters to stop them.

This movie is just plain entertaining. Is it dumb? Of course, but it's also loads of fun!

THIS MOVIE CONTAINS: Demons, ghouls, vampires, telepaths, a lovely transvestite with machine gun shoes, the pope, and a pink hearse!

A farcical fantasy adventure for those with a functioning sense of humor...

A really strange fantasy/adventure movie, a mix of horror, Cyberpunk and other kitsch inserts. Buffy is probably the model, but the story (a plot for world domination regarding the Pope) and the characters are very different from the Buffy ones, more Europeans, more fun in a strange sort of way. A better movie than you may think, but not really great for it is in a midlle of the road between delirious fun and bloody serious. Not for all tastes, but worth seeing