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Be My Bai-By: Circle of Pain (2010)

Published March 8, 2024 by biggayhorrorfan

(A new column dedicated to the projects of the truly singular Bai Ling)

In 2010’s Circle of Pain Bai Ling seems to follow the path laid out by her frequent social media posts and other recent roles in low budget B films. She attacks her character of Victoria Ruolan with a frenzied exuberance that ultimately spins her off into a totally different stratosphere than her frequently staid, one-dimensional co-stars. That Ruolan, a crooked manager of a fight league, is the piece’s villainess only seems to egg her on to more elaborate heights of defiance and sexuality. Seemingly basing her portrayal on controversial sports criminals like the WWE’s Vince McMahon, Ling is obviously enjoying commanding her stable of jock scene partners into all sorts of action here – including the very carnal kind.

Naturally, the plot itself follows the traditional filmic sports beats laid out by Sylvester Stallone in 1976’s Rocky. A retired, slightly disgraced boxer named Dalton Hunt (Tony Schiena) decides to challenge the current champion in an impossibly quick amount of time. When he resists Ruolan’s offers of assistance, relying instead on his own motley crew of trainers, violence and other serious pitfalls to winning quickly come his way. Of course, all that enforced resistance is for naught and, in a paint-by-numbers move, Ling gets to react to the disgrace of losing all that her guise has worked so hard to create in the final moments of this stereotypical yet fun presentation.

In fact, the only thing that might excite liberal B-Movie lovers more than Ling’s antics is watching real life Right Winger Dean Cain, playing one of Hunt’s defenders, get a parking lot beatdown that finds him relegated to bedridden pontifications for the middle part of the story.

Oh, well… We all know that Ling is the true super-person here, anyhow…right?!?!

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Be My Bai-by: Mega Ape (2023)

Published October 27, 2023 by biggayhorrorfan

(A new column dedicated to the projects of the truly singular Bai Ling)

Much like the multi-layered Irwin Allen disaster flicks, Mega Ape‘s writer and director Dustin Ferguson introduces us to multiple characters and plot points in the quick 72-minute running time of this furry feature. (Amusingly, 10 minutes of that is actually devoted to the pre and post action credits – so you’ve got just a little over a television episode’s worth of stuff here.) To wit, briefly beheld, there are a group of animal activists, a hysterically gesticulating mad scientist (Ling), a woman scorned, a rambling duo of conspiracy theorists and multiple hikers in danger. 

Following the usual path of these things, our titular beast is unwittingly released by some overzealous puppy loving civil servants. Soon, ever growing and growing ever angrier, it is on the warpath. Death and mayhem, naturally, ensue. Interestingly, it seems that the power of this creature is also linked to the subconscious and soon the whole world may be one Empire State Building away from Kong-ing out.

As a creator, Ferguson is obviously having a blast here. Working with a visibly miniscule budget, technology, it seems, has finally allowed him to make one of his dream projects  –  an ambitious, leveled monster flick. Of course, the cheese and wacky humor practically ooze out of this celluloid sandwich – with our favored goddess being a huge part of that.

While it appears as if Ling’s scenes were all filmed in one spastic afternoon, her appearances are, thankfully, scattered out amongst the project’s complete length. As it stands, as Dr. Li, our heroine generally works only one emotion – mania. But I, for one, wouldn’t have it any other way. Her shining exuberance is the flowery bow on an already very colorful present. 

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