A portmanteau film from 2023, with the segment we are interested in directed by Billy 'Bloody Bill' Pon (whose feature Circus of the Dead I have a real soft spot for), the segment is too short and could have done with expansion. That it is called Chupacabra Death Machines will give you an idea why I’m looking at it. In truth though, this could have ended up as a ‘Vamp or Not?’ and the honourable mention is simply because the use of the term chupacabra is, at least, of genre interest.
The conceit of the film is that all the stories are phoned in to a radio talk show hosted by Harlan Dean (John Bloom) and for this story he is called by the Barber (Esau Ramirez), an alias of the barber for a group of the Cartel operating out of Texas.
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He has seen them take proxies, men who have offended them, who are placed in a building and two chupacabra are let loose. The cartel member wins if his proxy stays alive long enough and the chupacabra wear cameras to capture the action as well as there being CCTV. Unfortunately, the chupacabra as we see them look a bit like bad CGI dogs and there isn’t much else to the story. One would have thought the filming style might have hidden the bad CGI, unfortunately not. Now this could still have worked but it is over and done with pdq, leaving it no time to find its feet. So it's not on long and more genre interest than actual blood sucking chupacabra.
The imdb page is here.
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