7 Worst Wrestling Mini-Movies

2. The Birth Of The Great Muta

Proving that bizarre mini-movies aren’t strictly the property of the western world, New Japan Pro Wrestling have also dabbled in the world of the wrestling featurette; and, my god, does it need to be seen to be believed.

Presumably created as a means of explaining the origins of the Great Muta character, the film opens with Muta sleeping in a slime-covered cocoon – as you do – before our hero pierces through the membrane, emerging like a facehugger from the Alien franchise.

The rest of the film consists largely of Muta gurning his way through caves as he squares off against a semi-naked, skeletal lizard that wouldn’t look out of place in an episode of Power Rangers or the nightmares of a small child.

When not pulling faces like he’s just wrestled his way through a particularly dodgy plate of sushi, Muta can also be found showing off his impressive array of facepaints, sticking his tongue out and regurgitating a cocktail of blood and mist; in what is seemingly an audition for a place in KISS.

Bizarrely, in the second half of the film, Muta appears to be murdered by his opponent, only to be resurrected by the light of the moon; at which point he himself naturally mutates into a claw-toting Neanderthal; complete with fangs, horns and other beastly features.

Muta goes on to exact revenge on his would-be murderer by subtly slamming his head into a handy cave wall before plunging his fist into his mutant enemy’s chest for good measure. Quickly re-arranging the beast’s organs, Muta vanquishes his other worldly foe and fades into the night.

Roll credits.

If the Hardy’s mini-movie was perplexing, viewing this entry will leave your brain so fried you’ll be howling at the moon like a feral child and eating butter with a spoon in no time. As far as wrestling mini-movies go, “The Birth of Muta” stands on its own in another dimension of strangeness.