How sad is this?

Brilliant and touching

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The Legendary Spanish director Jess Franco is known for some fantastic cinema, alas this certainly isn't among them and will be a blotch on his record.It follows a female fronted rock band as they break down on route to their next gig and get invited into a foreboding looking castle for the night.Essentially our antagonist is a blatant ripoff of the Countess Elizabeth Báthory with a couple of human minions who help her acquire the blood of the young (Virgins not required in this instance) Though advertised as a horror this is a very camp attempt and more like a comedy. One character in particular played by Santiago Segura (Blade 1998) is so over the top and so zany any hope of the film being taken seriously went out the window.The movie has a decent lead and memorable soundtrack though they really should have considered writing more songs and not playing the same one on a loop.The Good: Great leading lady The Bad: Looks very dated Not exactly a horror Soundtrack gets repetitive Dumbest ending in cinema history? Definite contender Things I Learnt From This Movie: Before throwing a naked woman out a window to her death it's only polite to put a nightie on her first

Changed from 'Barbies' to 'Barbys' to avoid confusion with a certain well known blond toy, this Jess Franco film is typically as crass and weird as you may expect. By this time in his career, Franco was about to start working with One Shot Productions, a strictly no-budget company sympathetic to his style, as he was of theirs. So it's interesting to see that 'Killer Barbys' is a comparatively slick affair. For a start, it isn't shot on video. Secondly, it boasts some fairly impressive production values and set-pieces.The Barbys are a suggestive punk rock outfit touring in a Scooby-Doo-type van that breaks down, leaving them at the mercy of the sinister Arkan (Aldo Sambrell) and the huge and Gothic castle he frequents. There are two distinct styles here, and Franco makes little attempt to marry them together – incessant punky-music-scored wise-cracking and softcore scenes featuring the band, and some nicely lit sinister scenes involving Arkan and the castle's Countess, punctuated with the antics of skivvy Baltasar (Santiago Segura) and his two dwarf 'children.' Interestingly perhaps, band-member Rafa is played by Carlos Subterfuge, who would go on to play a dreadlocked Frankenstein's Ghost in Franco's 1998's 'Lust for Frankenstein'.I don't know what on Earth to make of this, but that is hardly surprising. Clearly a vehicle for The Killer Barbys, much as 'Spice World', for example, was a vehicle for The Spice Girls, this venture is a much more lurid and less comprehensible affair. But in Franco's hands, would you expect anything else? Also, it is enjoyable in its way. There are eerie sex scenes, full nakedness and an expectedly thin storyline. There are also a number of nice gore scenes, perhaps befitting a band with such a 'raunchy' image. Main singer Sylvia Superstar as Flavia gets the most to do here, which isn't a huge amount.The dubbing in this is some of the worst I have seen, with little or no attempt to marry the lines with the actors. The dialogue is pretty ropey too ("You are the most beautiful bitch I have ever seen in my life," Rafa informs the Countess by way of a compliment).

While driving on tour late night through a lonely road in the countryside of Spain, the van of the punk band Killer Barbies has an accident and breaks down. A creepy old man invites the group to spend the night in the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus and presents himself as her secretary Arkan.How many times can you play the same terrible song in one movie? I lost count after a while. Are the Barbies a good band? I have no idea. Maybe. Maybe not. If I got to hear more of their music and not just the one or two tracks, I could better decide. So if this film was some sort of promotional deal for them, it did not work on me.The one good thing about the movie? It had midgets. And that is the only thing making this film get a 2 rather than a 1 in my book.

Killer Barbys (1996) was a vanity piece disguised as an old creepy horror film used to promote the Spanish punk-pop band THE KILLER BARBIES. The band is fronted by the hot Silvia Superstar. A lot of the band's music is played during the movie. Two of the actually band members appear in the film (Silvia Superstar and her boyfriend co-founder/Drummer Billy King). Jesus Franco creates a creepy old school horror film around the band. The band is cruising the back roads of Spain heading towards another gig. But the band never makes it to the other town before nightfall. Their van has broken down and they need to find a place that has a telephone. Three of the band members leave the broken down vehicle to look for help. What luck the band has. They come across an old castle. Inside they find an elderly gentleman who offers them a place for the night will he calls a tow truck. Silvia has her suspicions about the place and the people that dwell within it. The countess (the owner of the castle) wants them to stay for dinner. Will Silvia and her band mates take the middle aged woman's offer. How will the two band members who stayed behind fare? Why was the elderly host acting peculiar? To find out you' ll just have to watch KILLER BARBYS!!A fun film that doesn't try to be something it's not. If you're into vanity projects or some old school horror then you'll want to watch KILLER BARBYS. Silvia Superstar is hot and I hope you'll agree with me fellas! En espanol with English sub-titles.Highly recommended.