Movie Review: CRAZY BITCHES

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When friends go out to a remote location for relaxation in the horror genre, you know they won’t be safe. While I have seen my fair share of those types of films, most of which never really work out for the best, Crazy Bitches sold itself on a horror-comedy. Also, the fact that all of the characters were of the female persuasion, with exception of a gay male, I had a feeling this could be fun. Not to mention that the film is called Crazy Bitches.

The film’s beginning definitely showed me that I was about to watch a film that wasn’t going to be what I expected and after you watch the whole film, the opening makes zero sense and should have been ditched all together. The characters that head up to the ranch are your stereotypical Californian females. BJ, the gay guy, carries around a camera and is filming the ranch because it has a history where girls were murdered and he cribs off of the paranormal investigative shows off the bat but that idea takes a back seat after its initial introduction. This is an early inkling on many half-baked ideas that the film includes. One woman is a lesbian that tries to go after one of her friends sexually and complains when she is turned down about straight girls. Yet, when another girl hits on her and they make out, she puts on the breaks.

The horror elements are minimal and the comedic elements don’t really hit the notes that they should. I laughed at one line when BJ slaps a character to stop her from losing control. It is the only time the film the comedy really works. There is minimal blood shown on screen and takes until the last 10 minutes to see the medium sized bottle of stage blood that they probably bought at a novelty shop. The stalking scenes – which give you a decent amount of the ladies in their underwear, but that’s as far as it really goes – are shown via a mesh-screen because the killer wears a hoodie and a mesh mask so their identity cannot be revealed. Sadly, even the stalking scenes don’t have the goods with the horror element.

Crazy Bitches could be best summarized as a Skinamax film without any titillation. The film feels flat and never really picks up the pace nor does it know if it wants to try to be a cheesy comedy or a horror film. It lacks the crazy.

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