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Bikini Bloodbath 2: Bikini Bloodbath Carwash (V)

“For this critic, the utter likeability of the BIKINI BLOODBATH series carries enough weight to override any creative incompetence. The nudity is often memorable, the montages are mind-numbingly brilliant, and the goofy dialogue is consistently worth a chuckle. Worth checking out as long as you know what you’re getting into.”

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For those of you not familiar with the rich mythology behind the BIKINI BLOODBATH series, let’s recap:

In the shat-on-video original film from 2006, a bearded Chef hacked up a handful of topless high school girls (read: 30-year-old actors posing as jailbait), a group of football players explored their homoerotic futures, the audience was bombarded by random dance montages; all of which was accompanied by the butt-rock thrashings of White Liger, a truly bad-ass hair band. BIKINI BLOODBATH had boobs, laffs, hard rockin’ tunes….it had pretty much everything except a decent plot or respectable production values.

BIKINI BLOODBATH 2: BIKINI BLOODBATH CARWASH picks up a couple of years later: the high school skanks have now matured into fully-matriculated students at Community College University who occasionally tit-scrub cars at the local Debbie Rochon-owned car wash, but their day job doesn’t stop them from constantly chugging booze, getting topless, and dancing to bangin’ White Liger riffs. By the way, The Chef is still out to kill some bitches, and his gore is new and improved, but the kills are once again staged with all the directorial finesse of Kevin Smith on quaaludes.

Essentially CARWASH is a carbon copy of the original BIKINI BLOODBATH, an exploration of bare tits, bad acting, and a fistful of well-edited montages. And oh, the montages. Any serious discussion of CARWASH deserves at least a full paragraph regarding the film’s montages. Of course you can assume you’re going to get your soapy bikini car wash montage, that goes without saying, and with BIKINI BLOODBATH CARWASH, you get two of ‘em. There’s also a party dance montage (co-ed), a break-dancing montage staged on a splayed cardboard box (guys only), and a “suiting up for battle” montage, as the bitches prep for their final face-off against The Chef. Lots of montages. If montages were a fetish, CARWASH would be porn.

There’s really nothing much to recommend BIKINI BLOODBATH CARWASH unless you’re into mindless, shot-on-video bullshit. It’s not a very good movie. But for this critic, the utter likeability of the BIKINI BLOODBATH series carries enough weight to override any creative incompetence. The nudity is often memorable, the montages are mind-numbingly brilliant, and the goofy dialogue is consistently worth a chuckle. Worth checking out as long as you know what you’re getting into.

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Do ‘Ready or Not’ and ‘Abigail’ Take Place in the Same Universe? Did You Spot This Connection?

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Both extremely bloody cat-and-mouse chases through massive mansions, Radio Silence’s horror movies Ready or Not and Abigail (now playing in theaters!) are certainly cut from the same cloth, but do they actually take place within a shared universe? It was a question the filmmakers were asked, and their response suggests that the answer to that question is YES.

Collider’s Perri Nemiroff asked the question of Radio Silence filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, who co-directed both 2019’s Ready or Not and this year’s Abigail. As they point out, an Easter egg nestled within Abigail confirms a shared universe connection.

Bettinelli-Olpin tells Collider, “There is a portrait in the background of one of the scenes [in Abigail] of Henry Czerny’s [character from Ready or Not].” Gillet chimes in to clarify, “It would be a grandfather. A great, great, great, great grandfather [of Czerny’s character].”

Bettinelli-Olpin adds, “There is a little bit of a tied universe to Ready or Not within the movie.”

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Actor Henry Czerny played the character Tony Le Domas in Radio Silence’s crowd-pleasing hit Ready or Not, the owner of the Le Domas Gaming Dominion and patriarch of the Le Domas family. The film centers on the Le Domas family’s deal with the devil to build their fortune, which Samara Weaving’s character Grace of course finds herself paying the price for.

If the Le Domas family exists in the world of Abigail, as the aforementioned portrait suggests, then that would indeed indicate that both films exist within the same bloody universe!

And it would seem there’s a deeper connection between the Le Domas family and the Lazar crime family introduced in Abigail. Have fun playing around with that idea. We know you will!

We’ll get you started. Is it possible that Abigail’s father is Mr. Le Bail from Ready or Not…?

In Abigail, “After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”

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