While the movie is called Killer Barbys, it features the Spanish punk rock band The Killer Barbies, who are fronted by Silvia Superstar. They've used the alternate spelling to avoid legal action from Mattel, but at other times use the "ie" spelling.
Released along with their first album Dressed to Kiss, this movie finds the band on the road when their van breaks down. Arkan (Aldo Sambrell, who was in everything from Leone's Italian Westerns to Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Silver Saddle and Operation Condor: Armor of God 2) welcomes them to the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus (Mariangela Giordano, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror), who is really the artist Olga Luchan, who has remained alive for decades.
Billy and Sharon elect to stay in the van - continually aardvarking throughout the movies - while Flavia, Rafa and Mario all discover the secret of the Countess. Yes, she's remained young on a diet of semen and blood.
There are only two songs by the band on the soundtrack and you will know them both well by the time the movie is done. You'll also be amazed that Franco had made way more than a hundred movies before this, but so much of what I love is that you never really know what kind of movie the director would bring you.
Basically, imagine if Scooby-Doo had every character having sex with one another, but pervy sex because Jess Franco wouldn't have it any other way. What a magical lunatic. The band would also work with Mr. Franco again to make 2002's Killer Barbys vs. Dracula.
Released along with their first album Dressed to Kiss, this movie finds the band on the road when their van breaks down. Arkan (Aldo Sambrell, who was in everything from Leone's Italian Westerns to Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Silver Saddle and Operation Condor: Armor of God 2) welcomes them to the castle of Countess Von Fledermaus (Mariangela Giordano, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror), who is really the artist Olga Luchan, who has remained alive for decades.
Billy and Sharon elect to stay in the van - continually aardvarking throughout the movies - while Flavia, Rafa and Mario all discover the secret of the Countess. Yes, she's remained young on a diet of semen and blood.
There are only two songs by the band on the soundtrack and you will know them both well by the time the movie is done. You'll also be amazed that Franco had made way more than a hundred movies before this, but so much of what I love is that you never really know what kind of movie the director would bring you.
Basically, imagine if Scooby-Doo had every character having sex with one another, but pervy sex because Jess Franco wouldn't have it any other way. What a magical lunatic. The band would also work with Mr. Franco again to make 2002's Killer Barbys vs. Dracula.