Written and directed by: Stuart Simpson
Featuring: Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karlie Madden, Kate Watts, Norman Yemm
The opening minutes of Aussie writer/director Stuart Simpson’s Monstro (a.k.a. El Monstro Del Mar) are great fun. Three tough broads in Russ Meyer guise — Baretta (a solid Nelli Scarlet), Snowball (Kate Watts) and Blondie (Karli Madden) — are having car trouble. Stranded on the side of the road, these tatted-up tarts sweat in the heat while they wait for help to arrive. They turn on the radio, prompting Blondie to hop up and dance on the hood of the car. Soon, two sketchy townies see the sexy trio and pull over to assist them. Through a series of tight compositions and little dialogue, an intriguing tension plays out. Will the women join these men for a “swim” after the car is fixed? Or do they have other plans?
When it...
Featuring: Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karlie Madden, Kate Watts, Norman Yemm
The opening minutes of Aussie writer/director Stuart Simpson’s Monstro (a.k.a. El Monstro Del Mar) are great fun. Three tough broads in Russ Meyer guise — Baretta (a solid Nelli Scarlet), Snowball (Kate Watts) and Blondie (Karli Madden) — are having car trouble. Stranded on the side of the road, these tatted-up tarts sweat in the heat while they wait for help to arrive. They turn on the radio, prompting Blondie to hop up and dance on the hood of the car. Soon, two sketchy townies see the sexy trio and pull over to assist them. Through a series of tight compositions and little dialogue, an intriguing tension plays out. Will the women join these men for a “swim” after the car is fixed? Or do they have other plans?
When it...
- 11/15/2012
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
★☆☆☆☆ Monstro! (2010), the new (supposed) antipodean shocker from the Land Down Under is just that very thing - monstrous. Selling itself as a horror-action comedy, it's heavy on the horror (if slapstick gore qualifies as horror), but non-existent on action or comedy. This gratuitous exercise in sleaze, directed by Stuart Simpson and starring veteran Australian actor Norman Yemm alongside newcomers Nellie Scarlet, Karli Madden, Kate Watts and Kyrie Capri, should carry a government health warning alongside its age rating - watching it could seriously damage your faith in independent filmmaking.
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- 10/30/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
*full disclosure: a DVD screener of this film was provided by Breaking Glass Pictures.
Director/writer: Stuart Simpson.
Cast: Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden, Kate Watts, Scott Brennan, Steven Stagg, and David Gannon.
El Monstro Del Mar, or for non-Spanish speakers Monster of the Sea, is the latest horror feature from Breaking Glass Pictures on DVD. The film can be summed up as three murderous babes versus a monster of the deep and the film is similar to '60s grindhouse or Tarantino's early work. The visual style from director Stuart Simpson is diverse and exciting with El Monstro Del Mar one of the wildest features to come across this desk in a while.
The story is simple, but this is still a fun watch. At the start, the film is in black and white and three tattooed vixens wait by the side of the road in...
Director/writer: Stuart Simpson.
Cast: Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden, Kate Watts, Scott Brennan, Steven Stagg, and David Gannon.
El Monstro Del Mar, or for non-Spanish speakers Monster of the Sea, is the latest horror feature from Breaking Glass Pictures on DVD. The film can be summed up as three murderous babes versus a monster of the deep and the film is similar to '60s grindhouse or Tarantino's early work. The visual style from director Stuart Simpson is diverse and exciting with El Monstro Del Mar one of the wildest features to come across this desk in a while.
The story is simple, but this is still a fun watch. At the start, the film is in black and white and three tattooed vixens wait by the side of the road in...
- 2/6/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
We’re back with the latest installment of our Indie Spotlight. Each feature includes the latest independent horror news sent our way. If you want to be included in our next spotlight, send us an email.
El Monstro del Mar:“Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the February 28 DVD release of the nautical bloodbath, retro-horror thriller “El Monstro del Mar!” (Srp $24.99). “El Monstro del Mar!” mixes sexy yet deadly beauties, the infamous Vernian monster, and a grindhouse feel that gets the blood pumping and brings a renewed fear of what lives in the sea. Let the bloodbath begin!
Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile. But this town has a dark secret. The local old sea baron, Joseph, tries desperately to warn them to never go into the water. But these crazy vixens listen to no one,...
El Monstro del Mar:“Breaking Glass Pictures has announced the February 28 DVD release of the nautical bloodbath, retro-horror thriller “El Monstro del Mar!” (Srp $24.99). “El Monstro del Mar!” mixes sexy yet deadly beauties, the infamous Vernian monster, and a grindhouse feel that gets the blood pumping and brings a renewed fear of what lives in the sea. Let the bloodbath begin!
Three gorgeous but deadly hired killers, Beretta, Blondie and Snowball, hole up in a small beachside community to keep a low profile. But this town has a dark secret. The local old sea baron, Joseph, tries desperately to warn them to never go into the water. But these crazy vixens listen to no one,...
- 1/22/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Everybody likes hot babes who can kick ass and have a bit of a sordid past. Hell, strip joints are filled with them, and guys flock to those joints. El Monstro Del Mar not only has a trio of hotties that would make Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos cringe, but it's also got a Kraken-like leviathan that's terrorizing the beaches. Beat that!
El Monstro Del Mar is a 2010 Australian bloodbath directed by Stuart Simpson. The film will be making its Region 1 DVD debut on February 28th, thanks to the good people at Breaking Glass Pictures. Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden and Kate Watts star along with some intimidating tentacles growing straight from the charred walls of the damned! Muh-wah-ha-ha!
But wait... there's more! Included on the DVD with be director Simpson's 15-minute short film The Acid Spiders. All this for just three easy payments of... Anyway, check out the...
El Monstro Del Mar is a 2010 Australian bloodbath directed by Stuart Simpson. The film will be making its Region 1 DVD debut on February 28th, thanks to the good people at Breaking Glass Pictures. Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Capri, Karli Madden and Kate Watts star along with some intimidating tentacles growing straight from the charred walls of the damned! Muh-wah-ha-ha!
But wait... there's more! Included on the DVD with be director Simpson's 15-minute short film The Acid Spiders. All this for just three easy payments of... Anyway, check out the...
- 1/18/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Director: Stuart Simpson Writer: Stuart Simpson Starring: Norman Yemm, Nelli Scarlet, Kyrie Nunan-Jackson, Karli Madden, Kate Watts, Scott Brennan, Steven Stagg, David Gannon El monstro del mar! starts as a brilliant black and white homage to Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill! with three gorgeously tough rockabilly ladies -- two brunettes, Beretta (Nelli Scarlet) and Snowball (Kate Watts), and a blond, Blondie (Karli Madden). After the film’s killer opening bloodbath, the three lady killers arrive at a seaside shanty town located on Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay to cool down...and, of course, party. One of the few remaining locals of the town, an aged and crippled fisherman named Joseph (Norman Yemm), warns the ladies to never go into the water. (There is a good reason no one lives here anymore.) The rebellious young hotties do not listen to the old coot; instead, they strip to their skivvies and splish,...
- 12/7/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
(This film was sent to Bad Lit as a screener copy from the 2010 Spooky Movie Film Festival.)
El Monstro Del Mar! by Australian filmmaker Stuart Simpson is a giddy, modernized recreation of the golden era of American teenage exploitation films. It has the perfect combination of everything that made exploitation great in the Sixties: Sexy girls, a rockin’ soundtrack, a gross monster. Where Simpson kicks it all up a notch for modern audiences is that it really delivers on the gore that older films could only tease about.
The film’s black & white opening of three “bad” girls – and you know actresses Nelli Scarlet, Kate Watts and Karli Madden are bad from their tattoos and low-cut tops — driving through a bleak, desolate Australian landscape, El Monstro Del Mar! is a direct homage to Russ Meyer’s classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill!, right down to the women’s hair color: Two brunettes and a blonde.
El Monstro Del Mar! by Australian filmmaker Stuart Simpson is a giddy, modernized recreation of the golden era of American teenage exploitation films. It has the perfect combination of everything that made exploitation great in the Sixties: Sexy girls, a rockin’ soundtrack, a gross monster. Where Simpson kicks it all up a notch for modern audiences is that it really delivers on the gore that older films could only tease about.
The film’s black & white opening of three “bad” girls – and you know actresses Nelli Scarlet, Kate Watts and Karli Madden are bad from their tattoos and low-cut tops — driving through a bleak, desolate Australian landscape, El Monstro Del Mar! is a direct homage to Russ Meyer’s classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill!, right down to the women’s hair color: Two brunettes and a blonde.
- 10/11/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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