2007
Director- Howie Askins
Cast- Jessica Graham, Joe Wanjai Ross, Vanessa Kay, C.J.
Baker, Ruben Terrones
Fans of
the artist Coop have probably already seen this movie. If you’re not familiar
with Coop’s art, it’s a mixture of cheesecake, rockabilly ,retro sci-fi and
horror done in a cartoon style that is immediately recognizable and of course,
his beautiful devil girls; voluptuous, naughty, satanic nymphets. This movie is
pretty much his art come to life.
Faye
(Jessica Graham) is taking a trip through the American west via Route 66. Faye
makes her way by beating people at pool and winning drag races in her muscle
car. She crosses paths with a psychotic clown (Ross) and gets stranded in a tiny
town in the middle of the desert, populated with weird and menacing characters
out to do her harm. She gets a job at the town’s strip club, The Burning Bush, to
pay her way until she can get out. Faye
and the clown continue to cross paths with each other as well as the sexy Devil
Girl who sometimes appears to help, sometimes to tease and sometimes to
torment.
The
movie seems to take inspiration from Natural
Born Killers and House of 1000 Corpses in so far as its frenetic,
hallucinatory style, though it’s not nearly as menacing as either of those
films. This isn’t really a horror movie, but if you had to place it in a genre,
horror would be the one you'd pick.
Graham
is very down to earth and believable as the stranded protagonist and Ross plays
a humorous, enjoyable, psychotic clown. He’s less like Sid Haig’s Captain
Spaulding and more like a page from Naked
Lunch come to life. The main attraction is Vanessa Kay as the
titular Devil Girl. She has the soft, voluptuous curves of a 1960s pin-up girl and
looks very much like a Coop drawing come to life. Whether clad in black leather
or completely naked, she is a sight to behold. The scene of her sitting naked
upon a church alter to torment the town’s perverted minister is worth the price
of admission.
The
movie is filled with muscle cars, go-go dancers, rock music, iconic imagery and
beautiful women. Not a movie for those seeking a scare, but if you want to feel
like you’ve been dropped into the middle of a psychobilly song come to life,
you’ll enjoy a date with Devil Girl.
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