Mustang Sally starts as six young guys, Josh (Mark Parrish), Mike (Erik Fellows), Toby (Sonny Marler), Luke (Garrison Koch), Seamus (Sean McGene) & Ryan (Al Santos) are sitting in the local small town diner where they overhear some bikers talking about a nearby brothel run by a woman named Mustang Sally (Elizabeth Daily) & decide they'd all like a piece of the action, so to speak. They jump in Josh's car & head right on over there, when they arrive they are greeted by Sally & introduced to her 'girls' whom all pick a guy (shouldn't it have been the other way round?) & then head off to the various bedrooms for some fun. Unfortunately for the boys these hookers are homicidal maniacs with revenge on their minds...
This Canadian American co-production was co-scored, written, co-produced & directed by Iren Koster who also had a part in the film as someone called Popsie, I actually thought Mustang Sally was an OK film by which to pass 90 odd minutes. The script for the first half of the film plays like a cheap porno with these guys being introduced to some hot birds & then going off together for some fun & it's not until past this point that the horror kicks in, in fact the first half of Mustang Sally has no horror elements in it at all. Now this would have been fine but the sex scenes are really tame, there's barely any nudity, there's no variety apart from the dominatrix who gets someone to kiss her boots & ties him up & it may disappoint some in that regard, at this point I just felt a golden opportunity to be totally perverted, sleazy & exploitative had been missed. However the horror kicks in & there's some decent bloodletting & a surprisingly effective little twist at the end. It moves along at a good pace & I was never bored unlike a lot of low budget horror these day, the teenage character's weren't that annoying & it doesn't seem to take itself too seriously.
Director Kastor does alright, it's not exactly the most visually stylish film you'll ever see but it's quite well shot all the same. There's nothing particularly sexy in this, nothing explicit & the film doesn't seem to want to build up any tension or shocks. The gore levels aren't high, someone is stabbed, there's a scythe in someones chest & neck, someone has their tongue cut out & people are shot although it's not that graphic, the nudity count is also surprisingly low considering the potential of the situation & the basic material.
The budget was probably low as seen in the end when Mustang Sally's house blows up for no apparent reason, it is shown as a blurred reflection on the Sheriff's sunglasses as he 'talks' us through what's just happened because he reports it over his own radio back to the police station. As a whole it's a bit cheap looking. The acting isn't great but it ain't too bad I suppose considering the material.
Mustang Sally, maybe better known as Mustang Sally's Horror House, is a reasonably decent horror/wannabe porn film that doesn't really excel in either genre but is an OK watch if you've got nothing better to do.
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