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This is really a tough one to review because there isn't really any actual acting in it, it's all about wrestling. So if you are a horror geek and you come across this flick and see all those horror creatures fighting against each other then you expect to have a gory flick. But it's all done ringside which basically turns it back into a real wrestling flick because the monsters are in fact wrestlers.

But don't think that you will see some cage fight between Randy Orton or John Cena. There aren't any WWE icons here to see, some old school WWF faces are here to see, Jimmy Hart is just playing himself with his annoying voice and Kevin Nash just plays the rough guy.

This isn't Smackdown or Raw. This is just some basic wrestling, guess otherwise they had problems with the make-up. I've heard people who loved this flick but they have seen it at a convention with cheering crowds so there it is at it's place but at home it fails completely. Even as I watch WWE on a weekly basis this here doesn't deliver. Luckily they have added some gore here and there but having no script it looks rather cheap.

If you can't watch wrestling then forget this flick. For horror geeks just watch it with your friends and be p*ssed an proud while watching it. A strange flick.

Gore 2/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 3/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

This movie is straight up garbage from the get go. I thought the idea of monsters battling WWE style would be pretty damn entertaining and although there are plenty reviewers out there warning people not to watch this, i still gave it a try. Normally i give movies a full chance if i feel they have potential but i got out of this one early and i don't regret it. The monster make it up is pretty terrible for a movie that looks like it had a decent enough budget to do something better. I'm talking mainly about the cyclops characters whose one and only eye never moves and you can see the slits where the actor looks through the mask. If this was done intentionally for laughs then im sure it would have been more obvious but it seems they tried to go for subtly and failed. When you go into a movie for the monster effects and they fail with the first monster then its probably not worth continuing. PS. there is no storyline to this movie so i think the only people who will get a kick out of it are big time wrestling fans.

Eight classic monsters fight to the death in an explosive wrestling tournament set inside an abandoned and cursed graveyard.

This movie is something of a mystery. It seems to be quite bad and has virtually no plot. Yet, being fully aware of that, it never takes itself very seriously and is therefore somewhat enjoyable. It certainly was not as bad as I expected and not nearly as bad as it could have been.

The real mystery is how they were able to sign on such a cast. Kevin Nash, Herb Dean and Jimmy Hart give it a sense of authentic wrestling or fighting. I did not even realize Hart was still alive. Then you have Dave Foley, horror veteran Art Hindle, and some voiceovers from Lance Henriksen that are a cross between him playing God and being the narrator from "Mortal Kombat". (The script is no stranger to video games -- a reference to King Hippo from "Punch Out" is thrown in.) Is the movie good? Heck no. But it is bad in a way where it appears almost intentional... and therefore more tolerable than other films being released these days. Certainly better than anything Charles Band has been associated with in a long time.

Alright, well I figured this might actually prove to be a laugh, to see iconic movie monsters brawl it out against one another. Boy was I wrong!

This is without a doubt the most horrible "movie" I have had to suffer through in a long, long time. And I use the term "movie" here in quotation marks, because this was nothing more than just wrestling as you'd see on TV, except that the athletes were dressed up like monsters like it was some bizarre Halloween event.

There was absolutely no story to watch here, just senseless fights between the iconic monsters that most of us grew up with. And on top of that, the fights were not even great. And to top it off they had Lance Henriksen, which undoubtedly was the best part about the movie - having him narrate it with his characteristic voice, doing some really crappy Mortal Kombat rip-off comments at the fighting maneuvers.

The best parts about the movie, was as I just mentioned Lance Henriksen's narrating (minus the lame Mortal Kombat comments), because he does have a very unique voice. Plus, they actually managed to make the graveyard look rather cool.

No, oh God, please no, this was horrible beyond even my comprehension.

Just to throw more fuel to the fire, they had Jimmy Hart in this "movie" as well. Yeah, Jimmy Hart!

I am sure there is an audience out there somewhere for this kind of entertainment. I, however, was just not in that particular target audience. This was a waste of time and effort.

Totally awful!

I do not understand why they even made this movie. It was even worse than the wresting we usually see on sport channels.

Just no story, nothing. Just a few characters dressed up like monsters and assigned some names and fighting in a ring in a graveyard.

The abrupt ending made it all seem a really unprofessional attempt. The ending would definitely make you think - hey, what happened to the rest of the monsters? I guess they had run out of time, so had to end abruptly.

Please do not waste your time seeing this. Avoid it completely!

Reminiscent of Ed Wood's Orgy of the Damned, except instead of naked strippers, you have wrestling monsters. Astonishingly bad. It was as if you had actors...I mean "actors," performing at different locations, but cut together to make it seem as if they were in the same place. Like a comedy written by someone without a sense of humor. Actual wrestling commentary is better than the dialog here. There is no plot. There is no story arc. There are no main characters. There is nothing to recommend it. It has no more depth than a SNL skit, but it goes on for an entire movie. The only detail worthy of any note is some of the set design work (though note all of it).

I am a fan of old school wrestling, horror and splatter films, low rent makeup films and old school monster movies... This movie fails all of these genres. This could have been mildly entertaining as a 30-minute show. It was stretched out to feature length film and we are all the worse for it. How they got Dave Foley is perplexing, he must be hard up for work. I would suggest that anybody who rated this film higher than a 5 worked on the film, and anyone who rated it higher than a 3 is related to someone who worked on this film.

so many missed opportunities in this movie. that is the biggest shame.

Skip it and watch Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040068/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 the effects are better, the fear believable, and the laughs are legit.

Some people take movies so seriously. This movie gets trashed by a lot of people - but, come on. Take it for what it is. It's not intended to be a good movie; it's not intended to be a serious horror movie. It's basically a spoof. It's a spoof of the whole WWE (or whatever acronyms are out there right now) experience, with over excited commentators (played by Dave Foley and Art Hindle) and an over the top announcer (Jimmy Hart as himself) and pretty (and barely clothed) ring girls and lots of ridiculous action in the ring - and sometimes out of the ring. It's not really much different than you'd see watching pro "wrestling" on television, and as a spoof of all that it's OK.

It's a "tournament" featuring eight monsters divided into two Conferences (the Creatures and the Undead) going head to head against each other. Ninety minutes of it is a bit tiresome in all honesty, but I have to confess (and I'm a wee bit embarrassed about it) that when we finally got to the final match I was interested in seeing whether Frankenstein or Werewolf would come out on top!

As Canadian movies go it's certainly not the worst I've ever seen (and in its opening it even manages to pay homage to the classic opening of Hockey Night in Canada.) I don't remember the exact words that opened the "broadcast," but they were a take on Foster Hewitt's iconic "Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland."

It's not a good movie by any means, but it does have some humour in it, it doesn't take itself at all seriously and it is plain old stupid fun. You wouldn't want a steady diet of movies like this, but there's nothing wrong with it from time to time. (4/10)

When i bought this movie on bluray i knew i was buying a bad movie. It is called monster brawl, so that cant be good.

What i did expect is entertainment value. It also does not have that. The movie plays like an episode of pro wrestling, with an introduction of each fighter and then followed by the actual fight.

The intros are of low entertainment value, but they are better acted than the fights itself. The movie is about the fights, but it is just plain silly. Bad wwf moves performed by zombies, with some use of special effects that are not spectacular or convincing.

If you like fights i suggest you watch any ufc tournament. If you like monsters, watch a monster movie. Braindead if you like zombies, blade if you like vampires or the mummy if you like mummies. Just don't be tricked into buying this movie, a waste of time and the plastic the bluray was made of.

Let's face facts – we love it when iconic badasses gang up for a cinematic experience. Jason vs. Freddy, Godzilla vs. King Kong, The Monster Squad…. Teaming up our favorite villains (theoretically) gives us the most bang for the buck and it has been used in everything from superhero films (X-Men: United) to comedies (Bud Abbot and Lou Costello meet Frankenstein).

This idea is not lost on writer/director Jesse T. Cook who has gathered together 8 favorite personalities in the new film, Monster Brawl. In this sure to be an instant cult classic, Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Witch Bitch, Swamp Gut, Cyclops, The Mummy, Lady Vampire and a Zombie square off against each other in a fight to the death wrestling tournament inside a cursed graveyard.

The brawl plays out like an HBO boxing special with the monsters being split into Dead and Undead categories then further classified based on their weight class. The bracket format tournament's play-by-play announcers Dave Foley (News Radio) and Art Hindle (Black Christmas) introduce each fighter after a background highlight reel narrated by Lance Henricksen gives us insight into each competitor. Then both fighters have their tale-of-the-tape stats revealed before entering the ring as announced by WWF icon Jimmy Hart.

It's a fight to the death and first round matches begin with Cyclops going against Witch Bitch in a match that split audience support down the middle and had the theatre shaking with crowd pleasing approval cheers.

Mixed Martial Arts referee Herb Dean has a cameo and got the second biggest ovation after Robert Maillet's (300) Frankenstein who was clearly the fan favorite going into his match against Zombie Man.

Putting a horror hungry audience ringside to experience their favorite dead and undead creatures fighting for the ultimate title belt was an experience we won't soon forget. Applause from an accepting audience had arms extended over their heads in pure genre basking glee and side bets were heard wagered by audience appreciators on both sides of the aisles.

Programmers could not have found a better opening film for the festival which brings the best of horror, science fiction, action and cult films to a group of accepting spectators. Jesse T. Cook took the drunken conversation of 'who would win against who in a death match' and choreographed it with exciting professional wrestling scenes that were as good or better than anything you will see in the WWE.

Make-up effects were top rate and the mix of comedy provided by Foley and Hindle was a welcome addition to an already winning formula.

It's rare that we get to screen a film and instantly believe what we are watching is a future cult classic, but that is exactly our sentiments after Monster Brawl's Toronto premiere.

Bravo.

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Now I will first start off by saying if your not into wrestling then you will not like this movie. I'm a big wrestling Buff, I watch both WWE and TNA and use to watch ECW and WCW. So I'm the perfect person to appreciate this. It's not meant to be taken seriously, it's not a true horror movie or maybe it's not even a movie at all. But what it is is 90 minutes of hilarious clichés and Wrestling PPV style showmanship. It would almost be better as a real show than a movie. But for what it's worth it is really funny. It has it's ha ha moments and it's WTF moments. But if your into cheesy old school wrestling then you'd appreciate this movie. If your not into wrestling then don't even waste your time. You'll hate it. I hope they continue to make sequels. It has the potential to really create some good story lines.

In Monster Brawl, eight legendary monsters (Frankenstein, Cyclops, Witch Bitch, The Wolfman, Swamp Gut, The Mummy, Lady Vampire, and a zombie) battle it out in the ring to see who is the greatest of them all; sounds all sorts of awesome, huh? Well, trust me when I say that this 'film' couldn't have been more tiresome had they intended it to be.

What we get are 8 very cheap looking monsters, a crappy graveyard set, boring back-stories for each monster to pad out the running time, several unexciting wrestling bouts, inane chat from commentators Buzz Chambers and Sasquatch Sid Tucker (Dave Foley and Art Hindle), former wrestling manager Jimmy Hart as the guest announcer, a pair of sexy ring girls (to keep the viewer from completely nodding off), and some risible bargain basement gore effects.

It's all so repetitive, poorly executed and lacking in atmosphere (a crowd of cheering monster fans might have helped, but I doubt the budget would have stretched that far) that I imagine even the most fervent of wrestling fans will find this a chore to sit through—and that's saying something!

You know those movies that are so bad it's good. Well this one isn't it. It's a cool idea to have well known monsters fight in a ring. And in this case 8 but the thing is, it looks more fake than wrestling. Which would still have been alright if this movie was so darn dull. The announcers and bikini babes tries to hype the fights up. But they are just so boring to watch. It's like watching a couple of drunks from a Halloween costume party wrestling with one another. And there is almost no trademark monster moves. Or using the monster weaknesses as an advantage in a fight much. It tries to have a story by having back-story for each monsters but that is the weakest part about this movie. It's so darn boring to watch and I personally didn't care. I just wanted to see monsters throw down. If it was crazy and over the top with the fights it would have at least been watchable. The director basically is a fan of monster movies and wrestling and decided to combine the two. Without any experience and far from having enough production value. It may sound cool but this is a pass.

2/10

"Monster Brawl" - 8 Classic monsters duking it out.

Sounds AWESOME, but plays Awful.

This movie caters to fans of wrestling more than monster fans - it's just as bad and fake as normal wrestling, but not in a cheesy good way. The humor is mostly devoid of humor and the same type of "joke" is used over and over. The movie looks good, the concept is solid - the script and execution is god awful.

This movie would have been fun as a 7 min short... As is, it's unfathomably boring - I don't even know any children that have the attention span to sit through this inane garbage as essentially the action is not really action and in between the action it's just a lot of gibberish from the commentators.

Do yourself a favor and watch a classic monster flick instead or "Elvira Mistress of the Dark" to get your cult monster flick fill.

The premise is simple. Monsters battle wrestling style until one wins. There's no real story. The wrestling matches are pretty boring and the events in some of them seem quite random.

It plays out like a Pay-Per-View wrestling event. It also shows small segments about the characters before the fights begin.

The acting from Jimmy Hart is terrible, especially when interviewing the guy who organizes the event.

The makeup is pretty bad. It seems like the makeup from the history of the monsters and the wrestling matches are noticeably different. I found this pretty distracting.

There are a couple of good things that I found. Lance Henricksen's voice announcing is great. Super creepy. I also thought that the sound editing was very nicely done.

The thing about this movie is that by the time the final battle comes, you don't really care anymore. The feeling is so monotone and the fights are so dull that you really kind of want things to be finished just to move the movie along. Oddly enough, I did manage to not turn the movie off but I know I could have spent my time better.

Bottom line, if they cut some of the gore out, this would be an entertaining movie for kids 8-12 but for those who are serious fans of the horror genre, it's a pretty major disappointment.

Looked pretty interesting at the time of the beginning, and could actually seem quite entertaining BUT TBH KINDA ANNOYING

Great costume art (All credit)

Some actors made you cringe

The Hosts were dreadful, and just mita felt better if there was some one like Mike tyson and ben stiller as the judges, witnessing this dreadful prolong b movie, i can honestly say i pity the fool who made this film, and the result of the options that should of been, is i a better (primera película)

As for the best character in this Flick, Frankenstein was indeed the best,

and live long and prosperous Franky Boy.......

RENT (dont bother) . but indeed Don't BUY ! cheeky chops

I'm something of a wrestling fan. Sure, it might run into moments that I hate (as a recent Smackdown spoiler suggests), but I still watch it regardless of what happens. It's clear that writer/director Jesse T. Cook is a fan as well (what with the appearances of current and former wrestling personalities and references to things like Japanese Death Matches), but with "Monster Brawl", he takes a one note premise that could have been fun and does nothing to make it work.

The plot couldn't be more simple-Buzz Chambers (Dave Foley) and Sasquatch Sid Tucker (Art Hindle) are two announcers who are pleased to give you Monster Brawl, in which eight monsters (Zombie Boy, Cyclops, The Mummy, Werewolf, Swamp Gut, Witch Bitch, Lady Vampire and Frankenstein) are all going to compete in one-on-one wrestling matches, with the voice of God (Lance Henriksen) serving as a narrator/ringside announcer. Oh, and the graveyard is cursed.

As I said, pretty basic stuff. On the plus side, most of the performances are alright. Foley and Hindle seem to be having a lot of fun as the announcers, while Kevin Nash does a fine job as Zombie Boy's manager. The only performance that doesn't ring true comes is from Henriksen, who sounds bored most of the time. It's hard to blame him though, as this is a movie with a fun premise that doesn't know what to do with it. Sure, there's a few chuckles to be had, but most of the jokes fall flat on their face, especially around the final act. Speaking of which, the third act just drags on and on, not showing any sign of letting up, but never managing to do anything that's fun.

Which leads me to my biggest complaint: the "matches" themselves are boring. Sure, it must be hard to wrestle with all that make-up or in a rubber suit, but there's little here that actually resembles a wrestling match. The fact that the film seems to be as influenced by old fighting games like "Killer Instinct" and "Mortal Kombat" as it is by wrestling hurts it too. Each match ends the same-you gotta kill your opponent in some gruesome fashion. By the third or fourth maiming that occurs however, it just gets repetitive. Apart from title belts, nothing feels like it's at stake here, making it all feel more like a pointless exercise than it does a wrestling and horror geeks dream come true.

As a whole, even the most hardcore mark (look it up) will probably find themselves bored by "Monster Brawl." It's a premise that doesn't do anything with the joke at hand, and feels more like a boring fantasy from a fan boy than it does a movie you'd actually want to sit through.

3 1/2 Stars = Very Good

It's the Monstermania version of "Wrestlemania!" It's so cheesy, it had to be filmed in Wisconsin, but set in Michigan. I suppose they make cheese too, but I wouldn't want to eat it. It's so stupid, it's hilarious, at least at times. It's so bad, it's good!

Yes, it's "Monster Brawl!" The movie you've been waiting all your life to see! The movie that pits "Creature," against "Creature!" "The Undead," against "the Undead!" Even in two weight classes! Middle weight & heavy weight! But wait, there's more! The winners of their weight class & division are pitted against the winners of the other division, so we have get two world championship matches! "Creature" vs. "the Undead!" Heavy weight vs. heavy weight. Middle weight vs. middle weight. Oh the horror, the agony, the ecstasy! The gooey dripping cheese from my flat screen!

All jokes aside, this is a fairly clever monster bash. The makers of this film intended it to be so bad, it's good, & their good at doing it! No, this is no classic creature feature, but it's a great idea that I'm surprised has not been done before. It lampoons professional wrestling & movies like, "Godzilla vs. King Kong" & "Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, & current film series, like "Underworld" & "Twilight." Yes, the film makers have an agenda here, & it works a good part of the time, to induce a good belly laugh or two.

Their are basically four segments' of this film. You get a little biography on each monster before a match, but unfortunately, more than not, this is pretty weak, only inducing a smile or two. More because of it's total corniness, than any genuine laughs. You have the two wrestling commentators, a big wink at the WWF & WWE, this works better, but not by much, other than when the matches are happening, which works well. In a bigger wink, you get Jimmy Hart, "the Mouth of the South" with two hot vixens in bikinis. This is very corny too, but works in the context of things. Then you get the matches, which are frankly, hilarious! The monster's make up, suitably cheesy for this cheesiest of films. The cheese is running hot! I mean, you got to take this all in context as it was meant to be taken. The matches are down right funny in their lampooning silliness, along with the commentators yakking it up, makes for a lot of fun!

Of course, the makers could've went the straight route, but that in it's self could've been a real cheese fest (especially with their low budget), unintended & no fun. So take "Monster Brawl" in the context it is meant to be, pop a beer, eats some potato chips, & have some fun with it! I did!

No pun intended - do you like wrestling? Do you like horror (movies)? Well this may be just for you ... now there could be more here and I reckon this being a low budget movie and not being able to get rights on or rather for some characters ... it will or rather you will be able to tell who is who, even if you don't get the actual name the character/icon is known for ... that can be fun.

And also you have stars from both worlds - horror and wrestling that is. Of course there always could be more - but again I reckon if your budget isn't the best ... still the effects are ok, the fighting is ... well ok too. So if you can suspend your disbelief ... and do not mind the flaws ... well you could do worse.