When I think about the rare horror gems I have encountered, and oh there have been many, one that always sticks out is Necropolis. I saw this tim a few years ago when it aired on a cable movie channel at 2 in the morning. An appropriate time for a special film such as Necropolis .
Lets start off with the cover art. How fucking bad ass is this? 1980's punk girl in all leather on a motorcycle surrounded by city lights and ominous figures. I really love the play on words and clever tag line. Even the type face used for the film is impressive. It's clean, graphic, pink and sexy. I want to be friends with this motorcycle chick already... oh, and she's the deadly villain from Hell too?!
The film starts 300 years prior to 1980s NYC. We see an evil white haired witch killed while preforming a sacrificial ritual that will enable her to live forever. She comes back 3 centuries later reincarnated, and guess what...she still wants eternal life and beauty, and with the help of new hellish minions. Using her powers of mind control and psychic abilities, she is able to brain wash people into doing things for her, like commit suicide. As each person dies she ingests their souls through drinking the cerebral fluid that is drawn out of their bodies. The cerebral fluid food chain continues with her demonic minions who in turn rely on her for life as well. So comes the scene where she preforms a satanic ritual and unleashes her not 1, not 2, but 3 sets of breasts which soon begin to leak the gooey cerebral fluid from her victims. As this happens her 6 cloaked minions breast feed from her 6 breasts in celebration.
Meanwhile, a 2 breasted local reporter, a black minister, and a cocky horny investigator are trying to track down who is responsible for these murder victims covered in this mystery fluid. Of course the cute short haired reporter and suave New York City investigator fall for each other, and realize that they too were reincarnated from a past life where they were together...and almost fell victim to our main Witch.
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When watching this film, you can't go in to this expecting a masterpiece of film work. The director, Bruce Hickey, filmed this while taking a break from directing gay porn (probably why this movie is so awesome).This is for lovers of punk, sleaze, kitsch, cheese, cults, all the good stuff. The dialogue is hilarious, especially that of the sassy gay coroner who said "honey" at the end of every sentence....or the hookers battling with our punkette villain. A deal maker for me were the awesome outfits of our villain. Leather mini skirts, motorcycle jackets, and black tool skirts with short hair and intense makeup givers her an authentic 80s post punk look. My last point is that I like to see this film as empowering to women and even pro feminist due to the fact that our main villain is a female who uses mind control on anyone she wants, especially sleazy men. Both her and our leading woman also rock shorter hair cuts and are depicted as free thinking, strong, and independent.
You can watch this movie in full on youtube!
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