Not many directors can provenly congregate a set full of beautiful women on an independent production, much less one that aims at its own efforts toward being sexy, edgy and envelope-pushing. Simon Edwards’ 6 Hot Chicks In A Warehouse is all but proof of this fact, in the course of its low production value serving as the template for the modicum of acting by our cast.
It’s a fairly decent affair from a conceptual standpoint, although it would be a stretch to add too many positives to that end. A gathering of sexy models are trapped, caged unwillingly by a psychopathic photographer, and injected with a psychotropic drug to infuse a bloody arena death match element to the final photoshoot of his career, and all to the backdrop of female empowerment – somehow?
The construction of sexy female characters owning their sexuality is a totally workable feat for this kind of a setting. It’s clear, however, that a better director might have helped tell this particular kind of story – nevermind the more exploitive, tongue-in-cheek and purposefully seedier elements that go hand in hand with the likes of the so-called “women in cages” subgenre of film in the 1970s.
Wrapped in the clunky, jagged assembly of it all is Mira (Jessica Messenger), a teenager living with her younger sister and her otherwise seemingly more conservative stepfather. Making a low-key excursion to a remote photography studio, she congregates with five other women (Sabine Crossen, Jade Wallis, Oliver Malam, Raluca-Sandra Moore, Holly Springett, Elesha Thorn), and the studio’s owner, Adrian (Oliver Malam) who apparently has a well-known reputation for being a cad apart from his more emotionally unstable, klutzy veneer.
Much of Adrian’s time is spent masturbating to his sister who turns out be the one masterminding his forward-going retribution against the women who all trashtalk and diminish him in jest, with partial exception to Mira whose sympathetic efforts with a clearly-snapped Adrian, in the end, are all for nothing.
The sound quality for much of the dialogue is unbearable so unless you have earphones on, you’ll be struggling some with the audio. The cinematography is fair and average throughout while most else of what’s to film for this particular project is nothing special.
The action and choreography are brutal to a fault with the fight scenery fishing out the red stuff good and plenty. The deaths are gory, in addition to what will mostly be part and parcel to what folks may remember it in being memorable, characteristically, but end result is still something one can hardly call the least bit entertaining.
You get why a film like 6 Hot Chicks In A Warehouse needed such a title to begin with, and despite the amount of work put into this, it’s a shame that the kind of boldness it takes for this particular film falls short like its lazy title.
You’ll definitely get your money’s worth if a woman’s lady parts and some effortless, R-rated fisticuffs are your speed. Otherwise, it’s not difficult to see that it takes much more than a sexy cast and half-a-directing talent to cohese a meaty action thriller that can still be sexy, fun and exciting without looking so cheap.