Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives

Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives (2010)

Runtime: 90 minutes

Directed by: Israel Luna

Starring: Krystal Summers, Kelexis Davenport, William Belli, Tom Zembrod

From: La Luna Entertainment

Yes folks, this is a legit movie, and I legit watched this late Tuesday night on Showtime Beyond, not because I’m a fan of transsexuals or anything (I’m not!) but rather because the movie just sounds SO bizarre and out there someone has to recap it. It’s not any sort of porno but rather a revenge exploitation flick (a la Death Wish), except that this one happens to have a fantastic title and the heroes happen to be transsexuals.

Now, I’ve come across some recent movies with wacky titles, such as Run! Bitch! Run! or Nude Nuns With Big Guns. I haven’t seen those films but I understand they’re more about the great title than the actual film. With this, I will say that is not the case.

The plot is rather straightforward: a group of trannies meet up with some guys who turn out to be gay bashers, and they literally bash them, resulting in death. The “girls” (I’ll refer to them as girls, to make it simple) regroup and they get their revenge. But it’s more than that. I’ll provide some highlights:

* The opening part has a lot of dialogue, but to sum it up, a girl named Bubbles arrives at the club everyone works at with a black eye, due to being attacked by a redneck with long hair named Boner. Yes, that's the only name he gets called by. Bubbles also happens to be the tranny who looks most like a lady. The others... it's rather obvious they're dudes. Sassy and mouthy dudes, but dudes nonetheless.
* By the way, the characters in this movie have named like Pinky L'Trimm (a huge black person; think Divine), Rachel Slurr, Emma Grashun, Tipper Sommore, Doctor Laccio, Connie Lingus, and my favorite, Helluva Bottom-Carter.
* Two of the ladies get invited to hang out with a pair of Mexicans. Bubbles is asked to go, and after some arguing, she does. It turns out to be a warehouse. The two Mexicans and Boner set them up, as Boner hooked up with Bubbles, not knowing the obvious. He then raped her, as he said "a hole's a hole". I never thought of it that way.
* There's a fight scene and besides a baseball bat getting used, one of the Mexicans gets a high heel in the eye. In terms of weapons, a broken CD also gets used to slash someone.
* Anyhow, Bubbles ends up in a coma due to a baseball bat shot to the head. She loses her voice, only to regain it, but with a lisp. I don't know why either. Some of the humor and gags were just strange more than anything else. Speaking of that, there was also a strange scene involving Doctor Laccio (an actual dude) and Connie Lingus (another tranny) which doesn't need to be talked about.
* The girls get trained to fight back by a strange dude who was supposed to be Asian but really wasn't, named Fergus. They get led by horseback (and wearing geisha-esque outfits) to the middle of nowhere. Then, the missing reel comes in.
That’s right, missing reel. It tries to be like Grindhouse with that gag, the print sometimes looking haggard, and the overall vibe in general. After that… well, I won’t spoil it for you, but you’ll get to see some violence there, that’s for sure; the movie was apparently made for only 300,000 bucks and usually you can tell that’s the case; with that said, most of the special effects and whatnot are fine for the price.

So, the movie is pretty wacky and despite (or maybe because) of its balls-out gimmick (pun not intended… or is it?) I managed to enjoy this low-budget trash that is just fun to watch; there’s some points where it does drag, but that’s typical for the Grindhouse genre, whether legit or the faux ones made in the past few years.

I'll be back Sunday evening, and it should be a more "normal" movie than this one.