A washed-up Female MMA star must fight a series of monsters, in a netherworld tournament to save her soul – what a concept! If only HellKat had the budget, script and martial art know-how to pull off such an outlandish synopsis, sadly it does not, leaving the audience seriously short changed.
The concept behind Katrina ‘HellKat’ Bash (Sarah T. Cohen) is a great one, the audio of a lost fight plays over the credits, she is drifting, with no purpose after the death of her son and is given a lift to a dead-end bar after her car breaks down. She drinks and smokes too much but has a resolute toughness. Unfortunately, her dialogue and the performance from Cohen is flat, she can only muster lines such as ‘shut up!’, when challenged in the bar, and when it turns out the patrons are demon-like, surviving gunshot wounds to the face, she doesn’t bat an eyelid. Unforgivably, she then spends the next 20 minutes of the film cleaning the toilets in exchange for tequila! So about this tournament…
Eventually, the man who gave her a lift to the bar, turns out to be a demon or the devil, something evil at least and makes her enter said tournament. The shoddy ring, bathed in red, is housed in the basement, with just our resident devil and a drag queen watching (don’t ask!) Katrina gets to fight an orc-like creature and some type of werewolf. The make-up is effective, but the martial arts action is lacklustre, after a couple of spin-kicks it all turns into a slug fest, which after sitting through scenes of constant smoking and bar cleaning is unacceptable. What could have been a low budget Mortal Kombat is a waste of concept and time.
