I've been out and about again, this time to Brighton with
Hellbound Media's Matt Warner to attend the movie premiere of
Codename: Diablo! A 'Girls with Guns' action comedy movie by Dre-YS dubbed the Russ Meyer of the 21st century! Being a fan of Russ
Myer, Ted V Mikels Andy Sidaris I was intrigued by Dre's work and I
had the pleasure of meeting him at the exclusive screening. As
a child Dre loved to play secret agents, inspired by spy spoofs from
the 60s and 70s such as Matt Helm, James Bond,
Man From Uncle,
The
Avengers, James Coburn as Flint movies and
Honey West. He loved the
wacky/ tongue in cheek silliness of them all and and soon got into
the Eurospy genre from the 60s such as so
Dick Smart 2.007,
Cazadores
de espias,
Con licence para matar and Mexican director Rafael
Balendon's catalogue. One aspect of these movies that appealed
greatly to him was that staple of the genre the 'Femme Fatale'! Women
that used their sexiness to achieve their objective and complete
their mission!
Temptress of a thousand Faces a 1969 Chinese spy
film is a particular favourite of his. When asked to name his
favourite 'Femme Fatale' he listed Margaret Lee, Maura Monti and
Elizabeth Campbell whom appeared in the before mentioned Eurospy
films and Lily Ho who made a series of 60s spy films as Agent 009 in
China. During the 80s
he started getting into Russ Meyer
when bunking off university
lectures to go to the Scala in London when they would run three Russ
Meyer films in a row once or twice a month, delighting in their
ridiculous plots and other things... Ann Marie, Alaina Capri and of
course
Tura Satana! Armed with these influences he decided to try
something that had not been done before and mixed action comedy spy
spoofs with ridiculously huge boobed girl secret agents for
Operation Havoc in 2009 casting Sheyla Hershey it was
internationally well received and was then followed by
The Blonde
Squad in 2014 and now he's back with the subject of this post,
Codename: Diablo!
The movie starred Mary Madison Love, Lilly 4K and
Martina Big starring as a trio of female secret agents
hired to stop an ultra sadistic villainess from taking
over the world with the deadly Diablo Gun! During its production the
film promised to be “'Buxotic' in every sense of the word, stating,
"
Codename Diablo! sets the bar for both independent film and
the Action Comedy genre alike. Totally in a unique niche of it’s
own, it's not many films that can claim to have invented their own
genre.” I had a great time at the premiere and
I had the pleasure of meeting the film's stars Mary Madison Love and
Lilly 4K along with Dolly Fox the
latest recruit to O.M.E.G.A who
will feature in the up and coming sequel! As for the movie, well this is a spoiler free zone so I shan't give away anything with regards to the story, but I enjoyed it. Offering some fun escapism, Dre provides a Russ Meyer/ Andy Sidaris tribute platter with a dash of
Charlie’s
Angels and a sprinkling of 1960's spy movies on top! If I had to
compare it to anything I would say it was a cross between Ted
V Mikels's
Doll Squad and Chesty Morgan's
Double Agent 73/
Deadly Weapons movies.
if this sounds like the kind of movie you might enjoy then follow this
link to watch the trailer,
find out more- be sure tell them Arfon sent you!
The movie will be released on DVD in August followed by streaming and Download in early September.
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